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US defense secy. nominee pledges total support for Israel
US President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary has pledged total support for Israel after he came under attack by lawmakers over his ‘anti-Tel Aviv’
Sandy leaves 6.5mn without power in northeast US
Over 6.5 million people in the US’s northeastern coastal states have been reported without power as Hurricane Sandy batters the mid-Atlantic region of the country.
US presses Algeria to lend support to military intervention in Mali
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met with Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to pressure his country to lend support to a potential military
Blackouts affect 1.5mn as Hurricane Sandy approaches East Coast
Blackouts affecting 1.5 million people have occurred on the East Coast of the United States, hours before Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall, with
Hurricane Sandy lands in New Jersey, 13 people killed recently
Hurricane Sandy has made landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey in the United States, having killed at least 12 people in the US
Obama, Romney hold round 3 presidential debate
US President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney have held the third and final debate of the US presidential campaign, which focused on international
Former American Indian Movement activist Russell Means dies at 72
Russell Means, a former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, has died at the
3 killed, several wounded in Wisconsin spa shooting
At least three people have been killed and several others wounded in a shooting at a spa in the midwestern US state of Wisconsin, police
Obama, Romney tied at 47 percent
A new poll shows that US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are tied in a dead heat, just about two weeks to
US court allows anti-Muslim ad to run in DC subway
A US court has ordered subway officials in Washington DC against preventing an Islamophobic advertisement which describes Muslims as “savage.” “In any war between the
