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Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 07:48
A senior government official says warplanes targeted the palace of embattled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in the southern city of Aden.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 05:05
Cuba and the United States meet for talks on restoring diplomatic relations on Monday, seeking more progress toward an agreement while not allowing differences over Venezuela to impede their historic rapprochement.
Monday, March 16, 2015 - 06:50
Soldiers rolled out shoulder-fired missiles, fighter planes and armored trucks Saturday for the first of 10 days of military exercises that the president of socialist-governed Venezuela says are needed to protect against a looming threat from the U.S.
Monday, March 16, 2015 - 06:48
Close to a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across Brazil on Sunday to protest a sluggish economy, rising prices and corruption - and to call for the impeachment of left-wing President Dilma Rousseff.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 07:17
U.S. military aid programs perform poorly far too often, and they are growing rapidly without adequate congressional or public scrutiny. There is no publicly accessible, comprehensive government reporting on how many programs the United States has that are designed to train and equip foreign militaries, how much they cost, or how many countries and organizations receive this assistance.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:46
The bill from Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) was approved last week by the House Committee on Homeland Security, which he chairs. It would require that the department attain full operational control of highly trafficked areas of the U.S.-Mexico border within two years, and the rest of the southwest border within five years.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:10
Special Operations liaison officers, or SOLOs, are now embedded in 14 key U.S. embassies to assist in advising the special forces of various allied nations. Already operating in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, El Salvador, France, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Poland, Peru, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, the SOLO program is poised, according to Votel, to expand to 40 countries by 2019.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:43
A tragic milestone went virtually unreported in the English-speaking press last week, as Colombia's Victims Unit released its report indicating that the number of victims of Colombia's civil war has now surpassed 7 million.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 06:49
After long hours of working out the logistics of the bond arrangements, the Artesia legal defense team was pleased to hear that the first mother and daughter were released from the federal detention center in Artesia, N.M., enjoying a happy meal, en route to El Paso to catch a greyhound bus to reunite with their relatives.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 12:57
If there's one thing we should have learned over the past 13 years of war, it's that war is good business for those in the business of war. Unfortunately, while profits for the Pentagon's contractors increase, so does the cost to taxpayers in billions in waste, fraud, and abuse. As America embarks on yet another war in the Middle East, Congress needs to act now to stop this unjustified bonanza for the Pentagon's contractors.