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CHINA WARNS AFTER CRUZ, ABBOT, MEET TAIWAN'S PRESIDENT
BEIJING AP -- China has reiterated its opposition to any contacts between U.S. officials and Taiwan's government following a meeting Sunday between Texas Sen... READ MORE›
CHINA AGREES TO RETURN SEIZED DRONE, ENDING STANDOFF, PENTAGON SAYS
China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters -- rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act, he said... READ MORE›
NEW STUDY CASTS DOUBT ON THEORY ANNE FRANK WAS BETRAYED
The new research points to two men who worked in the building on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht canal and dealt in illegal ration cards... READ MORE›
CHINA HOLDS FIRST LIVE-FIRE DRILLS WITH AIRCRAFT CARRIER, WARSHIPS
China's military has carried out its first ever live-fire drills using an aircraft carrier and fighters in the northeastern Bohai Sea close to Korea... READ MORE›
CHINA LIVE-FIRES AIRCRAFT CARRIER GROUP AMID TAIWAN TENSIONS WITH US
China's first and only aircraft carrier led large-scale exercises in the Bohai Sea, the navy of the People's Liberation Army announced late on Thursday... READ MORE›
ABE PUTIN DISCUSS ISLANDS ROW
Along with the West, Japan imposed sanctions on Russia, which Putin has criticized for creating a major barrier toward progress in negotiations on a peace treaty... READ MORE›
PUTIN, ABE HOLD TALKS ON JAPAN-RUSSIA TERRITORIAL DISPUTE
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the summit meeting marks his first official visit to a G-7 country since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea... READ MORE›
CHINA PUT WEAPONS ON DISPUTED ISLANDS
They "show that Beijing is serious about defense of its artificial islands in case of an armed contingency in the South China Sea," the CSIS experts wrote in the report... READ MORE›
THE ISLANDS IN THE WAY OF WW2 PEACE DEAL BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN
Russia's Vladimir Putin heads to Japan for talks on islands that stand in the way of WW2 peace deal... READ MORE›
THORNY TERRITORIAL DISPUTE OVERSHADOWS UPCOMING ABE-PUTIN SUMMIT
Putin, however, said the following day in an interview with Japanese TV that there was no territorial issue between Russia and Japan over the four islands... READ MORE›
WE SAID NEVER AGAIN BUT LET ALEPPO HAPPEN
Given who our allies are in the region, human rights could hardly have driven our government to support armed groups in Syria... READ MORE›
UNHAPPY RUSSIANS NOSTALGIC FOR SOVIET-STYLE RULE - STUDY
Former states under Soviet Union from Estonia to Mongolia also covered by findings that 'happiness gap' between eastern and western Europe persists... READ MORE›
SOVIET 'NKVD' RESTAURANT NAME TRIGGERS MOSCOW ROW
A Moscow restaurant named NKVD, like Stalin's secret police, loses its street sign amid a furore... READ MORE›
IS TRIO KILLED IN SYRIA 'INCLUDED PAIR LINKED TO PARIS ATTACKS'
Defence Secretary Ash Carter says the United States has killed three key leaders of the Islamic State group in Syria... READ MORE›
WHATA??S HAPPENING IN ALEPPO IS A??GENOCIDE,A?? ACTIVIST CLAIMS
To everyone who can hear me We are here exposed to a genocide in the besieged city of Aleppo, she said... READ MORE›
THOMAS SCHELLING HAS DIED. HIS IDEAS SHAPED THE COLD WAR AND THE WORLD.
Schelling's ideas made the Cold War what it was and changed the world... READ MORE›
U.S., S. KOREA, JAPAN VOW COOPERATION OVER N. KOREA SANCTIONS
South Korea banned its citizens from engaging in financial dealings with dozens of high-profile North Korean officials and entities... READ MORE›
NEW WORLD WAR 2 SHOOTER 'ENLISTED' FOR PC ANNOUNCED; TWO CAMPAIGNS NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER
Enlisted is being developed by the Latvian studio Darkflow Software and will run Gaijin Entertainment's Dagor Engine... READ MORE›
ISRAEL FINALLY RECEIVES THE FIRST OF ITS $5 BILLION ORDER OF U.S.-MADE F-35 JETS
Israeli Air Force officers say the fifth-generation F-35s will allow the penetration of enemy airspace without detection... READ MORE›
ADOLF BURGER, INMATE FORCED BY NAZIS TO FORGE BRITISH POUND NOTES, DIES AGED 99
Slovakian-born Mr Burger was arrested in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz with his wife, Gisela, who died there... READ MORE›
ON 75TH ANNIVERSARY, U.S. VETERANS RECALL JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
Leavelle, now 96, was among 30 Pearl Harbor survivors honored at a reception in Los Angeles before heading to Honolulu to mark Wednesday's 75th anniversary of the attack... READ MORE›
HOW PEARL HARBOR ATTACK SHAPED THE MODERN WORLD
Decades after Pearl Harbor, nationalist parties are on the rise in the West and East alike... READ MORE›
9 ICONIC QUOTES FROM PEARL HARBOR, WORLD WAR II
The day after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress... READ MORE›
75 YEARS AGO, THE AP REPORTS PEARL HARBOR ATTACK
In Washington, AP editor William Peacock and staff got word of the attack from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary... READ MORE›
TIME TO RECONCILE: 2 CITIES OVERCOME PEARL HARBOR LEGACY
Nagaoka, a city of 270,000 people on the Japan Sea, is the hometown of Adm... READ MORE›
ABE'S VISIT TO PEARL HARBOR CALLED 'HYPOCRITICAL GESTURE'
Abe said on Monday that he will visit Pearl Harbor in late December with US President Barack Obama, 75 years after Japan's attack on Hawaii in 1941... READ MORE›
JAPAN, U.S. BURYING WORLD WAR II GHOSTS 75 YEARS AFTER PEARL HARBOR
Japan, U.S. burying World War II ghosts 75 years after Pearl Harbor... READ MORE›
JAPANESE PM ABE, OBAMA TO VISIT PEARL HARBOR TOGETHER IN HISTORIC EVENT
Obama's decision to visit Hiroshima in May divided Americans and was broadly welcomed in Japan... READ MORE›
SHINZO ABE TO BECOME FIRST JAPANESE LEADER TO VISIT PEARL HARBOR
Politicians there still pay homage to the heroes of Pearl Harbor -- meaning the Japanese aviators and others who died in the attack... READ MORE›
75 YEARS AFTER PEARL HARBOR, STRENGTH RENEWED
The attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago drew a staggered, reluctant America headlong into the global struggle against the Axis powers... READ MORE›
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NICHOLAS WINTON IS DEAD AT 106 SAVED CHILDREN FROM THE HOLOCAUST
He was showered with encomiums the Czech Republic's highest award, honorary citizenship of Prague, an American congressional resolution, letters of appreciation from President George W... READ MORE›
AUSTRIANS VOTE FOR PRESIDENT IN TEST OF FAR RIGHTA??S STRENGTH
A new parliamentary election, analysts here say, could then open the way for Mr. Hofer's far-right party to run the government... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER SAYS HE'S READY TO FIGHT ANOTHER WORLD WAR
Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army three-star general who is set to become White House national security adviser after President-elect Trump takes the oath of office... READ MORE›
WHAT AMERICANS THOUGHT OF JEWISH REFUGEES ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR II
Two-thirds of Americans polled in January 1939 -- well after the events of Kristallnacht -- said they would not take in 10,000 German Jewish refugee children... READ MORE›
SPOOKED BY RUSSIA, TINY ESTONIA TRAINS A NATION OF INSURGENTS
Meelis Kiili, the commander of the Estonian Defense League, said in an interview in Tallinn, the capital... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP'S POPULIST WAVE SWEEPS THROUGH EUROPE
Europe's nationalists and far-right leaders were among the first to congratulate President-elect Trump on his upset victory over heavily favored Hillary Clinton... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMPA??S VICTORY PROMISES TO UPEND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
Abubakar Kari, a political-science professor at the University of Abuja, said most Nigerians believed a Trump administration would not bother with issues outside the United States... READ MORE›
GREECE WANTS GERMANY TO REPAY A??279BN IT WAS FORCED TO LOAN THE NAZI AUTHORITIES DURING WWII
Mr Mardas was speaking at a committee set up by the country's left-wing Syriza government to calculate how much money Germany owed Greece... READ MORE›
SAINSBURYA??S CHRISTMAS AD IS A DANGEROUS AND DISRESPECTFUL MASTERPIECE
Perhaps the greatest truism, even cliche about the first world war is that nobody ever really understood why it happened, what it was all about... READ MORE›
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR
In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›
PEARL HARBOR IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF 'GREATEST GENERATION'
Seventy-five years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, a surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu stunned military commanders... READ MORE›
JAPAN'S LEADER TO VISIT PEARL HARBOR FOR FIRST TIME
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor led the U.S. to enter World War II... READ MORE›
HITLERA??S WORLD MAY NOT BE SO FAR AWAY
As Hitler himself knew, there was a political alternative to ecological panic and state destruction the pursuit of agricultural technology at home rather than Lebensraum abroad... READ MORE›
AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
MAN CAPTURES PHOTO OF LIGHT BEAMING OFF ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER
A stunning photo shows sunlight reflecting off of the One World Trade Center days before the 15th anniversary of the 9 11 terror attacks... READ MORE›
WORLD TRADE CENTER OPENS FOR BUSINESS
The sun rises behind One World Trade Center in New York City on Monday, Nov... READ MORE›
A MASS MIGRATION CRISIS AND IT MAY YET GET WORSE
Nor is it only the Middle East and North Africa that European leaders need to consider... READ MORE›
RUSSIA WITHDRAWS SIGNATURE FROM INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT STATUTE
Russia signed the Rome statute in 2000 and cooperated with the court, but had not ratified the treaty and thus remained outside the ICC's jurisdiction... READ MORE›
TRUMP NAMES GEN JAMES 'MAD DOG' MATTIS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY
US President-elect Donald Trump has named General James Mattis as his defence secretary... READ MORE›
VOTING IS A GIFT FROM OUR FOUNDERS
As an American, of course I go with the larger figure, so when asked about my service, I say I flew 52 missions in World War II... READ MORE›
U.S. $38B MILITARY AID PACKAGE TO ISRAEL SENDS A MESSAGE
WASHINGTON -- The United States agreed Wednesday to provide Israel a record 3.8 billion a year in new military aid over the next decade... READ MORE›
US WILL ACCEPT MORE REFUGEES AS CRISIS GROWS
The United States has taken in only about 1,500 Syrian refugees since the start of the conflict there more than four years ago... READ MORE›
PHOTOS RAINBOW APPEARS FROM WORLD TRADE CENTER ON EVE OF911
The colorful image appeared to be coming from One World Trade Center on the eve of the 14th anniversary of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks... READ MORE›
WHEN THE APOCALYPSE HITS, HEAD SOUTH
Doomsayers have been predicting an all-out nuclear war since the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945... READ MORE›
TEXT TEXT OF PRESIDENT OBAMAS SPEECH IN HIROSHIMA JAPAN
The world war that reached its brutal end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was fought among the wealthiest and most powerful of nations... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA: U.S. CROSSED 'RED LINE', DECLARED WAR
North Koreaa??s top diplomat for U.S. affairs said Washington a??crossed the red linea?? and effectively declared war... READ MORE›
JAPANS LOWER HOUSE PASSES BILLS TO GIVE MILITARY FREER HAND TO FIGHT
It complements guidelines in a bilateral agreement governing how Japanese and United States forces work together, which was signed by the two nations this year... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA CLAIMS SUCCESS IN FIFTH NUCLEAR TEST
North Korea says it has carried out its fifth successful nuclear test, with the South saying it appears to be its biggest ever... READ MORE›
A WORLD OF TROUBLE FOR DONALD TRUMP
Since World War II, the United States has sought to prevent nuclear war and the expansion of nuclear arsenals... READ MORE›
WOMAN IN ICONIC WWII TIMES SQUARE KISS PHOTOGRAPH DIES AT 92
Greta Zimmer Friedman's son says his mother died Thursday at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia... READ MORE›
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HOW CANADIAN CHRISTMAS TREES END UP ALL OVER THE WORLD
It was all very strange, especially since Loewen is in the business of selling Christmas trees... READ MORE›
NY JUDGE DISMISSES TOLL HIKE LAWSUIT TIED TO WORLD TRADE CENTER
The Port Authority in 2011 estimated the cost of the World Trade Center reconstruction at about 11 billion... READ MORE›
BABY GIRL BORN AT WORLD TRADE CENTER TRANSPORTATION HUB
NEW YORK AP -- A baby has been born at the World Trade Center's transportation hub in Lower Manhattan... READ MORE›
FBI LOOKING FOR TWO MEN SEEN TAKING SUITCASE THAT CONTAINED SECOND BOMB
Rahami remained hospitalised on Wednesday with gunshot wounds sustained in the firefight with police that led to his arrest on Monday in Linden, New Jersey... READ MORE›
NEW YORK BOMBING SUSPECT CHARGED WITH FIVE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER
The suspect in the New York-New Jersey bomb plot has been charged with five counts of attempted murder, reports the prosecutor's office... READ MORE›
MUSEUM SEEKS THE FINAL FACES TO FILL A SEPT. 11 TAPESTRY
Born in Lima, Peru, Mercado lived in the East New York section of Brooklyn... READ MORE›
9/11 MEMORIAL WITH MISSPELLED NAMES FINALLY FIXED
Clarkstown used the Freedom Tower's records in compiling its list of victims' names... READ MORE›
WORLD TRADE CENTER MALL REOPENS, SHOWS PROGRESS SINCE 9/11
Of the World Trade Center mall Tuesday reflects how much Lower Manhattan has changed since the Sept. 11, 2011, terror attacks... READ MORE›
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Chris Christie 'flat-out lied' while distancing himself from 'Bridgegate' scandal, new court documents suggest... READ MORE›
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During a hot summer night, a photographer managed to capture the exact moment a bolt of lightning hit the Empire State Building... READ MORE›
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Ted Cruz was never going to win New York or come remotely close... READ MORE›