It’s open season on the star of the most popular reality show on cable television in the United States. Fans are rallying to Phil Robertson, 67, patriarch of the extended family of Louisiana hunters at the heart of “Duck Dynasty” after he triggered…
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The United States has deployed 45 troops to South Sudan, amid intensifying fighting between rebels and government forces and fears the country is sliding toward civil war, the White House said Thursday. In a letter to Congress, President Barack Obama…
The United States has signed anti-tax fraud pacts with six countries and territories including some considered tax havens, the US Treasury Department said Thursday. The Netherlands, Malta, and the British territories of Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey and…
Why is everybody making such a fuss about the latest Warren Buffett wind power purchase? Okay, so the legendary investor’s MidAmerican Energy Company has just ordered a huge mess of wind turbines from Siemens, but it was all the way back in May that…
India wants to ensure the furore over the arrest and strip-search of a female diplomat in New York does not do lasting harm to its “valuable relationship” with the US, its foreign minister said Thursday. “I can’t believe that either side wants to put…
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The United States flew 120 people out of South Sudan on Wednesday in three plane-loads amid fierce fighting in the capital, US officials said. Two C-130 planes plus a charter aircraft took off from Juba “carrying non-emergency chief of mission personnel…
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi wants the African champions to use the United States as their pre-World Cup training base. Football officials had previously floated the idea of training in Argentina, Colombia or the United States. But Keshi said he has…
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned China Tuesday against any move to declare an air defence zone in the South China Sea, as he affirmed defence ties with long-time ally the Philippines. Kerry, in Manila for a two-day visit, criticised China for…
India on Tuesday launched a series of reprisals against the US over a diplomat’s arrest in New York, including pulling identity cards for American consular officials in the country, foreign ministry sources said. “We have ordered the withdrawal of all…