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Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 06:41
A senior Democratic senator said Monday that Congress should vote on whether U.S. troops should be fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), calling the previous Iraq War a "terrible mistake."
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 06:39
On President Barack Obama’s first day in Beijing at the start of a weeklong swing through Asia, the US State Department published new language in the Federal Register to reflect a change in its policy to allow exports of lethal defense items to Vietnam.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 06:38
A hunger strike has been launched in Guinea in protest against the military's presence in a village where an Ebola awareness team was killed in September.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 06:37
Authorities at a penal colony in Kazakhstan have refused to let inmates' relatives see their loved ones following reports that the armed forces put down a prison riot.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 06:32
The Obama administration will not send an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq until Congress approves its $5.6 billion request to pay for the deployment, the Pentagon said Monday.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 06:30
Nazar Mohammad gave up opium farming two years ago in a Taliban-dominant river valley in southern Afghanistan to make 10 times less working as a local policeman. Now he regrets the move.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 05:37
Gabon has ordered four 15A naval mounts and a 20 mm Narwhal remote controlled gun turret from Nexter Systems to equip its Raidco RPB20 patrol boats and new 58 metre offshore patrol vessel.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 05:34
A debate on whether to sack Somalia's Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed descended into chaos on Tuesday as his supporters blew whistles and shouted out slogans, forcing the parliamentary speaker to halt the session.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 05:32
The United States Monday opened the first of 17 Ebola treatment units it is building in Liberia.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 05:31
The heavy presence of Sudan's military during an investigation by international peacekeepers of an alleged mass rape incident in Sudan's western Darfur region has raised serious concerns at the Security Council, Australia's U.N. envoy said on Monday.