WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has begun consulting the U.S. Congress on plans to sell to South Korea remotely piloted Global Hawk surveillance planes and related ground stations, two people familiar with the matter said. Among those briefed have been the Senate’s and House of Representatives’ foreign affairs committees, which have jurisdiction over arms sales, [...]
NEW YORK – Another milestone looms for Roger Federer at the U.S. Open on Thursday. If the Swiss master wins his second round clash with Israel’s Dudi Sela, he will chalk up his 225th grand slam win. That will move him into outright second place among men, one clear of Andre Agassi, and closer to [...]
AMMAN – Syrian forces raided houses in Hama for the second day on Thursday, residents said, hours after the city’s attorney general declared on YouTube he had resigned in protest against bloody repression of street demonstrations. Five months of protests have failed to unseat President Bashar al-Assad, who inherited power from his father and retains [...]
PARIS – Leaders of the Libyan uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi sit down with world powers on Thursday to map out the country’s rebuilding, 42 years to the day after the former strongman seized power in a coup. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose gamble to spearhead the West’s intervention [...]
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8 instead of Sept. 7 to unveil proposals to create new jobs, bowing to objections from Republicans, the White House said on Wednesday. Obama had requested originally to address Congress on the same night as Republican presidential candidates are holding [...]
AMMAN – The attorney-general of the Syrian city of Hama said in a video posted on YouTube on Wednesday he had resigned in protest at the crackdown on pro-democracy protests, but authorities said he had been kidnapped. “I, Judge Adnan Mohammad al-Bakkour, Hama province Attorney-General, declare that I have resigned in protest of the savage [...]
MIAMI – Tropical Storm Katia was expected to strengthen into a hurricane over the Atlantic on Wednesday, while another mass of thunderstorms that could become a named storm this week triggered evacuations of some oil workers from the Gulf of Mexico. Katia had sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (1100 kph) and would become [...]
TORONTO – The NHL’s Nashville Predators were shocked to learn of the death of their former player Wade Belak on Wednesday following local media reports his body had been found in a Toronto hotel. ” The entire Nashville Predators organization and family is shocked and saddened by the sudden and untimely passing of Wade Belak,” [...]
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