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WASHINGTON: Lawmakers voiced their confusion and concern, and some called for the end of sweeping surveillance programs by US spy agencies after receiving an unusual bri

FORT MEADE, Maryland: The mountain of classified material US Army soldier Bradley Manning gave to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks revealed sensitive information

CLEVELAND, Ohio: A Cleveland man accused of holding three young women captive for a decade pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of kidnapping, rape and murder for bea

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado: A wildfire forced the evacuation of more than 900 prisoners at a state prison outside Colorado Springs early yesterday, one of four blazes ac

MOSCOW: Thousands of Russians marched through Moscow yesterday demanding Vladimir Putin resign, as the president took the helm of a loyalist movement designed to broaden

ATHENS: Greece was in the grip of a new political crisis yesterday as the government faced a storm of public protest and a general strike over the shock shutdown of stat

JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela is responding better to treatment, South African President Jacob Zuma said yesterday as the frail anti-apartheid hero spent a fifth day in h

BAMAKO: Mediators in the Mali conflict arrived in Bamako yesterday to seek President Dioncounda Traore’s approval of a deal with northern Tuareg rebels that would

SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea dismantled the meeting table, pulled down the placards and rolled up the red carpet.

FAISALABAD, Pakistan: The US handed over control of Afghanistan’s Bagram jail to the Kabul government three months ago.