The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today condemned the Obama administration’s decision to resume engagement with Indonesia’s notorious Kopassus special forces. “Slipping back into bed with Kopassus is a betrayal of the brutal…
WASHINGTON — The FBI has arrested 10 people who allegedly spied for Russia for up to a decade – posing as innocent civilians while trying to infiltrate U.S. policymaking circles and learn about U.S. weapons,…
PRETORIA, South Africa — Landon Donovan could not hold back the tears as he described his “Hollywood moment,” but even Tinseltown couldn’t have dreamed up an ending quite this epic. It had all the ingredients…
A French fishing vessel was on its way to rescue a 16-year-old girl who was found alive Friday after being feared lost at sea as she tried to sail solo around the world. Abby Sunderland,…
(CNN) — The U.S. government has spent about $140 million in cleaning up the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government’s response manager, said Friday. Allen said federal…
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexicans are seething over the second death of a countryman at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents in two weeks, an incident near downtown El Paso that is threatening to…
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the end of the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. I keep saying it’s not going to happen. To understand why, let me put…
WASHINGTON — The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and “several thousand” more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in…
U.S. organizers say the American pavilion at Shanghai’s massive World Expo resembles an eagle opening its wings in welcome. Some critics say the metallic, two-wing complex looks like a car dealership. The embattled U.S. pavilion…
WASHINGTON – A deeply divided House of Representatives on Sunday approved historic legislation aimed at providing Americans with near-universal health care, handing President Barack Obama a huge victory on one of the most polarizing domestic…
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