UK Prime Minister David Cameron is to hold face-to-face talks with US President Barack Obama, with the BP oil spill, Afghanistan and the global economy set to dominate.
The talks will take place in Canada on the fringes of the G8 and G20 summits.
Cameron has told journalists there that he wants to see UK troops out [...]
President Barack Obama, fresh from a win on a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations, on Saturday urged Congress to take up his proposal for a $90 billion, 10-year tax on banks as the next step in reform.
Obama wants to slap a 0.15 percent tax on the liabilities of the biggest U.S. financial institutions to [...]
MIAMI — The first tropical storm of the Atlantic 2010 hurricane season has formed in the Western Caribbean, but it’s not on track to pass over the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday that tropical storm Alex has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.
Hurricane [...]
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WASHINGTON (AFRNS) — Sixty years ago this week, North Korean troops stormed across the 38th parallel into South Korea, launching a three-year conflict that culminated in an armistice in 1953, but never officially ended.
The North Koreans launched a massive, coordinated air-land invasion in the early-morning hours of June [...]
JERUSALEM — Palestinian officials say they retrieved the bodies of two Palestinians killed after Israel bombed a weapons smuggling tunnel overnight on the Gaza-Egypt border.
Dr. Moaiya Hassanain a Health Ministry official in Gaza, said the bodies were retrieved Friday.
The Israeli military said the tunnel was targeted because Palestinians fired 12 rockets and mortars into Israel [...]
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Signs of deep rifts over how quickly to cut national deficits were emerging as world leaders gathered in Toronto for summits of the G8 and G20 groups of rich nations today.
The divisions added to growing jitters over global stock markets, which have been falling for four days in a row.
The US, led by Treasury [...]
A struggling public university in California’s farm country is preparing to receive Sarah Palin amid fanfare, protests and months of legal wrangling over the former Alaska governor’s appearance.
The 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate is set to headline the 50th anniversary gala at California State University, Stanislaus, on Friday night.
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A Pakistani court convicted five U.S. citizens on Thursday of plotting terrorist attacks there and against U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a case that has spotlighted concerns about the radicalization of young American Muslims.
The five young men — friends who grew up in Northern Virginia and knew each other from a mosque there — were found [...]
(CNN) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that would require most independent groups that pay for campaign ads to disclose their donors.
The measure passed on a 219-206 vote, mostly along party lines with Democrats in support and Republicans opposing. The Senate is considering taking up its own version of the [...]
MASSACHUSETTS – The Provincetown school system is considering changing its controversial new policy of making free condoms available to all students, even younger elementary schoolers, the school board chairman said today.
“I guess the biggest thing [generating controversy] is that it’s for elementary school kids, but where do we draw the line?” said School Committee Chairman [...]
Citrus County resident a real ‘sweetheart’
Elementary school student awarded scholarship
Student raises money for injured dog
Volunteers ‘carry the day’ at special gathering
Five seated on housing advisory committee
Fire Rescue now offers ‘enhanced services’ to county
Senior Care recognized at commision meeting
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