• By Frank Jack Daniel and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's powerful military has played a central role in convincing Afghanistan's Taliban rebels to hold talks with the United States, U.S. and Pakistani officials said, a shift from widely held views in Washington that it was obstr...
  • BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Thursday to give the United States until July 11, 2014 to shut its air force base at the main civilian airport Manas, which it uses to fly U.S. troops and cargo in and out of Afghanistan. A law to end Washington's lease of the base - the Manas Tra...
  • PARIS (Reuters) - France is not ready to reduce its nuclear arsenal for now, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama offered to cut deployed weapons as part of a global push to lower stockpiles. Speaking in Berlin, Obama urged Russia to help buil...
  • By Roberta Rampton and Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear weapons, offering to cut deployed nuclear ar...
  • Barack Obama has defended the US National Security Agency's surveillance programmes, insisted that American authorities are not "rifling" through citizens' emails.    
  • By Alexei Anishchuk ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia voiced concern on Wednesday about U.S. missile defences and high-precision conventional weapons, signalling that nuclear arms cuts proposed by President Barack Obama are...
  • Under a blazing sun and waving German and US flags, a crowd in Berlin cheered a call by US President Barack Obama on Wednesday for more transatlantic cooperation, but with a whiff of disappointment in recent American leadership.
  • By Erik Kirschbaum and Roberta Rampton BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama offered a new twist on Wednesday to John F. Kennedy's historic 1963 call for liberty -- "Ich bin ein Berliner" -- by saying other oppressed peop...
  • By Jeff Mason and Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama defended U.S. intelligence methods on a visit to Berlin on Wednesday, telling Chancellor Angela Merkel and wary Germans that Washington was not monitoring the...
  • US President Barack Obama has called for more efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons.
  • BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants to reduce deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third and revive negotiations with Russia to "move beyond Cold War nuclear postures", he said in a speech on Wednesday in Berlin. "After...
  • Barack Obama calls for a one-third reduction of the world's nuclear weapon stockpiles during a speech in Berlin.    
  • President Barack Obama has pushed for a reduction of the world's nuclear stockpiles in a speech at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate.
  • President Barack Obama has sought to reassure Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, that US secret surveillance programmes were limited
  • US president to pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third below the level achieved in the ‘New Start’ treaty with Russia
  • Barack Obama will Wednesday invoke the Cold War history of German-US solidarity, on a long-awaited first visit to Berlin as president, but will face sharp questions on US spy snooping programmes.
  • US President Barack Obama arrives in Berlin at the start of a visit during which he will address crowds at the city's famous Brandenburg Gate.
  • The US president is returning to Berlin on a state visit but this time he’ll have to find a new speech that has some substance as well as symbolism
  • The daughter of baseball legend Joe Torre made a perfect catch when she grabbed a baby boy falling from a building in New York City, reports said.
  • By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An annual U.S. State Department report on Wednesday cited Russia and China among the world's worst offenders in fighting forced labour and sex trafficking, which could lead to U.S. sanctions, prompting angry rebuttals from Moscow and Beijing. The report said Ru...
  • Sopranos creator David Chase pays tribute to the 'genius' actor James Gandolfini, dead at 51, who was so brilliant as mafia boss Tony Soprano    
  • James Gandolfini, star of The Sopranos, has died in Italy. Here are some of the reactions to his death:    
  • James Gandolfini, the US actor best known for his role as the mob boss in The Sopranos, has died, HBO television network tells the BBC.
  • Actor James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano in the acclaimed US mafia drama The Sopranos, has died in Rome after reportedly suffering a suspected heart attack.    
  • DOHA (Reuters) - Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between U.S. and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place on Thursday as had been expected, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Asked if the meeting would happen on Thursday, the source replied: "There is nothing scheduled that...
  • DOHA (Reuters) - Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between U.S. and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place on Thursday as had been expected, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Asked if the meeting would happen on Thursday, the source replied: "There is nothing scheduled that...
  • By Paul Eckert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressman who has been blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's main champion in Washington said people working for New York University have tried to keep him from meeting Chen, barging into a meeting on Capitol Hill and pulling Chen out on one occasio...
  • The United States downgraded China, Russia and Uzbekistan to the bottom of a US table for failing to make greater efforts to combat human trafficking, a move that may spark sanctions.
  • A look back at James Gandolfini's life in the movies and The Sopranos.    
  • By Anurag Kotoky NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance program that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said. The expanded surv...
  • Unmanned drones are roaming American skies conducting surveillance in the United States, albeit in a "very minimal way," the head of the FBI has admitted.    
  • By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States uses drones for surveillance in some limited law enforcement situations, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday, sparking additional debate about President Barack Oba...
  • The FBI has used drones for surveillance in limited cases over US soil and is developing a drone use policy, the FBI director tells a US Senate panel.
  • Talks between the US and the Taliban aimed at ending the Afghan war have been delayed for several days following anger from President Hamid Karzai.
  • Incredible survival story of WWII crash pilots who beat Arctic winter
  • Divisive legacy of Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings
  • Journalist Michael Hastings, whose reporting ended the career of US General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a crash in Los Angeles aged 33.
  • Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of US Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash Tuesday, his employer announced.    
  • By Hamid Shalizi and Lesley Wroughton KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Revived Afghan peace talks hit their first roadblock on Wednesday, a day after they were announced, as Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his government would not join U.S. talks with the Taliban and would halt negotiations with Wash...
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  • Two US men have appeared in court accused of plotting to build an X-ray weapon to kill enemies of Israel and the US with lethal rays of radiation.
  • The Afghan government lashed out Wednesday at US efforts to broker peace with the Taliban, suspending security talks with Washington and threatening to boycott contacts with the insurgents.

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