Former president Bill Clinton swatted down Republican suggestions that wife Hillary’s health could hamper her potential White House run, insisting Wednesday she is in “better shape” than him. “She works out every week, she is strong, she’s doing great…
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More than one-in-four adults harbor anti-Semitic attitudes and barely half worldwide have heard of the Holocaust, according to a global study released Tuesday by a major Jewish rights group. The US-based Anti-Defamation League, in a survey of 53,100…
British hate preacher Abu Hamza clashed angrily with a US prosecutor at his New York terror trial on Tuesday, denying claims that bomb-making plans had once been found in his prison cell. Taking to the witness stand for a fourth day, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa…
The commander of US forces in Africa held talks Tuesday in Nigeria as Washington sought to help the government in Abuja trace more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants. General David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, flew to Nigeria…
Global wine consumption fell marginally in 2013 and the United States outstripped France as the top consumer, the International Organisation of Wine and Vine (OIV) said Tuesday. Consumption dipped 1 percent last year to 238.7 hectolitres of wine in…
President Barack Obama has been briefed by his top advisors after a second case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was discovered on US soil, the White House said Tuesday. “The president has been briefed on this development … Our team…
The United States said it is flying “manned” missions over Nigeria in search of over 200 abducted schoolgirls, after the Lagos government dismissed a prisoner-swap offer from the Boko Haram kidnappers. “We have shared commercial satellite imagery with…
The Washington Monument, one of the US capital’s most recognizable landmarks, reopened Monday under dazzling blue skies, three years after sustaining damage from a rare earthquake. The popular tourist attraction is the US capital city’s tallest building…
The United States said Monday it does not recognize the “illegal referendum” held over the weekend in east Ukraine that called for breaking away from Kiev. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the voting organized by pro-Russian elements in Donetsk…
French President Francois Hollande said Monday he had invited US and British officials to attend a Paris summit this weekend focusing on the threat from Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. “I asked the…