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Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
President Barack Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security. On the eve of the president's speech at the National Defense University, ...
UN chief visits Goma, Congo
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that security must go hand-in-hand with development in the troubled eastern city of Goma on Thursday, arriving just hours after a rebel group fighting government forces said they would respect a cease-fire to allow the visit to proceed. "A peace deal must deliver a ...
Colorado killer's reprieve sharply criticized
Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision to block the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap for as long as he is governor infuriated victims' relatives and drew quick criticism from Republicans ahead of the 2014 election. Hickenlooper on Wednesday granted an indefinite reprieve to Dunlap, who is on death row for ...
Council members abstain from vote on abstaining
Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes. AnnArbor.com reports (http://bit.ly/13JeOBH ) that Ypsilanti City Council member Pete Murdock proposed a resolution Tuesday that would have required council members to only vote "yes" or ...
Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, ...
Markets roiled by Nikkei's 7.3 percent slide
Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago. Several reasons have been blamed for the 7.3 percent, or 1,143 points, fall in the Nikkei index to 14,483.98, including a ...
ECB official: New bank authority 'indispensable'
A top European Central Bank official is calling for quick creation of an agency with powers to restructure and wind down busted banks, in an apparent pushback against Germany's insistence that such fundamental changes should take time. Benoit Coeure said in the text of a speech Thursday in Copenhagen that ...
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