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  • Guam adviser: Security level to remain in place after North Korea threats

    Guam adviser: Security level to remain in place after North Korea threats

    Date: 2017-08-09 06:47:26 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:6936441

    Guam's Department of Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense said there is no change in threat level resulting from the North Korean events, adding there are several levels of defense all “strategically placed” to protect the territory and the ....

  • Kenyans line up to cast ballots in presidential election

    Kenyans line up to cast ballots in presidential election

    Date: 2017-08-08 08:36:14 GMT - Kenya - International - SN:4 - ID:6935042

    Millions of voters will go to the polls in Kenya on Tuesday in an election expected to be a close race between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival Raila Odinga. More than 180,000 police have been deployed across the country amid fears of ....

  • Lavrov holding talks with N. Korean FM in Manila

    Lavrov holding talks with N. Korean FM in Manila

    Date: 2017-08-07 11:29:20 GMT - Russia - International - SN:6 - ID:6933920

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is holding talks with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho on the sidelines of the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and related meetings in Manila, Sputnik news reported Monday. Lavrov ....

  • South Korean president's approval rating slips to 72.5 pct

    South Korean president's approval rating slips to 72.5 pct

    Date: 2017-08-07 11:21:54 GMT - south korea - International - SN:4 - ID:6933904

    South Korean President Moon Jae-in's approval rating dropped slightly from a week earlier, Yonhap news agency quoted a survey as showing Monday, amid advances by opposition parties following a missile provocation from North Korea. In a survey ....

  • Up to US, N.Korea to ease tensions, not China - China UN envoy

    Up to US, N.Korea to ease tensions, not China - China UN envoy

    Date: 2017-08-01 07:05:14 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:2 - ID:6924825

    China's Ambassador to the United Nations Liu Jieyi said that it is up to the United States and North Korea, not China, to try to reduce tensions and resume negotiations to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. "They hold the primary responsibility ....

  • N. Korea fired apparent ballistic missile, says S. Korea

    N. Korea fired apparent ballistic missile, says S. Korea

    Date: 2017-07-28 18:55:05 GMT - south korea - International - SN:12 - ID:6920161

    The South Korean military said that North Korea fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into the East Sea late Friday, Yonhap news agency reported . The missile was launched from Jagang Province, northern North Korea, at around 11:41 p.m., ....

  • FDA says it plans to lower nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels

    FDA says it plans to lower nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels

    Date: 2017-07-28 18:10:42 GMT - USA - International - SN:11 - ID:6920134

    The Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced a new plan to lower the nicotine levels in cigarettes to non-addictive levels . Market Watch reported on its website that because almost 90% of adult smokers started smoking before the age of ....

  • US orders diplomats' families to leave Venezuelan capital

    US orders diplomats' families to leave Venezuelan capital

    Date: 2017-07-28 10:16:39 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:6919567

    The United States is ordering relatives of American diplomats to leave the Venezuelan capital ahead of a polarizing vote planned for Sunday to start rewriting the country's constitution, ABC news reported. The State Department says it's also ....

  • Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif resigns over Panama Papers verdict

    Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif resigns over Panama Papers verdict

    Date: 2017-07-28 09:44:16 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:2 - ID:6919505

    Nawaz Sharif has resigned as prime minister of Pakistan following a decision by the country's Supreme Court to disqualify him from office, the BBC reported Friday. The ruling came after a probe into his family's wealth following the 2015 Panama ....

  • 5 in abducted oil team in northeast  Nigeria killed

    5 in abducted oil team in northeast Nigeria killed

    Date: 2017-07-28 09:42:04 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:1 - ID:6919497

    At least five members of an oil exploration team kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have been killed, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said. The military said a day earlier that it had recovered the ....

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