North Korea Says It Has Cut Key Military Hotline

South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. North Korea’s military warned Tuesday that its artillery and rocket forces are at their highest-level combat posture in the latest in a string of bellicose threats aimed at South Korea and the […]

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Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea cut a military hotline that has been essential in operating the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation: an industrial complex in the North that employs hundreds of workers from the South. There was no immediate word about what cutting one of the few remaining official North-South

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Italian Court Orders New Trial For Amanda Knox

In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 file photo Amanda Knox becomes emotional as she sits down for a news conference shortly after her arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport , in Seattle. Italy’s highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial. The […]

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Italy's highest criminal court on Tuesday overturned Amanda Knox's acquittal in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial, prolonging a case that has become a cause celebre in the United States. Knox called the decision "painful" but said she was confident that she would be exonerated. Italian law cannot compel Knox to

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Defense Department Cuts Upset Tea Party Republicans Aiming To Trim Budget

New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to service members and civilian employees at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, after being sworn in. Hagel took charge of the Defense Department Wednesday after a bruising confirmation fight and two days before billions in budget cuts were scheduled to hit the military. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) (MintPress) — […]

Trisha Marczak
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(MintPress) - The military is sounding the alarm over sequestration cuts to the U.S. defense budget, which its leaders indicate will have enormous consequences on the nation’s national security efforts. Yet U.S. Treasury Department data indicates that in the last 10 years, the Defense Department has seen an increase of funding to the tune of 54

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Russians Search Amnesty Int’l Office In Moscow

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting in the Communication Center of the Russian government in Moscow, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service) Russian prosecutors and tax police searched the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International and several other rights groups Monday, continuing a wave of pressure that activists say […]

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting in the Communication Center of the Russian government in Moscow, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service)

Russian prosecutors and tax police searched the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International and several other rights groups Monday, continuing a wave of pressure that activists say is part of President Vladimir Putin's attempt to stifle dissent. Sergei Nikitin, Amnesty's Russia chief, told The Associated Press that officials from the general

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Obama Announces An Additional $200 Million To Help Jordan With Syrian Refugees

In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 file photo, a Syrian refugee girl covers her face while standing in front of her family’s tent at Zaatari Refugee Camp in Mafraq, Jordan. Jordan has set up a security cordon around a sprawling Syrian refugee camp in the country’s north in an effort to curb rising crime and […]

Samantha Stainburn
От Samantha Stainburn

U.S. President Barack Obama and King Abdullah II of Jordan held a press conference Friday in Amman. Obama was in Jordan for one night following his first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories to hold talks with Abdullah on political reform in Jordan and the impact of Syria’s civil war on the country. Abdullah was the first

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Crisis In Cyprus Threatens EU Role And Legitimacy

This June 12, 2012 file photo shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel behind a window with a reflection of the European flag at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. By rejecting an EU bailout and turning to Russia for help, Cyprus is exposing growing frustration and dwindling solidarity within a bloc that was meant to bring the […]

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By rejecting an EU bailout and turning to Russia for help, Cyprus has exposed the growing frustration and dwindling solidarity within the European Union, a bloc meant to bring the continent closer together after World War II. While talks about a Russian rescue appeared stalled Friday, experts noted that the idea of seeking Russian money alone

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