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Spying hangs over U.S.-China summit
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON President Barack Obama and new Chinese President Xi Jinping opened two days of talks at a California retreat with joint calls for a new relationship, even as Obama said he'd continue pressing China on its human rights record and cyber security....Tags: Pacific Ocean, Civil Rights, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Richard Nixon, Business
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Spying hangs over US-China summit
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Revelations of U.S. government surveillance programs threatened to complicate a first-time summit between President Barack Obama and new Chinese President Xi Jinping as they met Friday for two days of talks at a secluded California retreat....Tags: Chile, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Personal Data Collection, Beijing (China), Business
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Venezuela pulls out as facilitator of Colombian peace talks
BOGOTA, Colombia – Venezuela recalled its ambassador and ended its participation in peace talks Wednesday after Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos met with the losing opposition candidate in Venezuela’s recent presidential election....Tags: Venezuela, U.S. Congress, Government, Elections, Politics
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Diplomat killed in Afghanistan 'had a great worldview'
Tribune reportersAs strangers lined up for white ribbons and American flags to show their support, family and friends of Anne Smedinghoff mourned the loss of a young diplomat who was determined to see the world — and possibly beyond. Her brother, Mark, recalled...Tags: Television Industry, Politics, Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), International Relations
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A sensible caution, poorly stated
WASHINGTON -- People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign punishment for...Tags: Ronald Reagan, International Law, Weaponry, Science and Technology, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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Column: President's caution sensible, but poorly stated
WASHINGTON — People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and President Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Weaponry, Science and Technology, International Law, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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U.N. passes treaty regulating arms sales
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the world body's first treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade Tuesday, a goal sought for over a decade to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands...
Tags: United Nations, Weaponry, Military Equipment, Treaties, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A Russian 'frenemy'
The White House is trying to revive the "reset" with Vladimir Putin's Russia. It is likely to be a wasted effort. The reset is dead not because of someone's ill will or mistakes. It is because Washington and Moscow have reached the limit of...
Tags: Civil Rights, Moscow (Russia), U.S. Congress, Elections, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Philippines challenges Chinese claims to waters through tribunal
The Philippines is taking a feud with China to an international tribunal, it announced Tuesday, the latest turn in the simmering dispute over a string of rocky outcroppings in the South China Sea. In a claim shared Tuesday with the Chinese ambassador,...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Endangered Species, United Nations, International Law, Arbitration
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World of woe, little hope of relief, await U.N. General Assembly
World NowGlobal Focus: When 120 world leaders and thousands in their entourages gather at the United Nations next week, the woes of the world will be on stage in all their tragic detail: a civil war in Syria, the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, reignited ethnic... -
Sources: Obama Authorized Secret Support for Syrian Rebels
CNNWASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces, U.S. officials told CNN on Wednesday. The secret order, referred to as an intelligence...Tags: News Agency, Injuries and Wounds, Los Angeles Times, Civil Rights, Iran
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Towson's Will Adams beating worst enemy yet
Will Adams, freshman basketball player at Towson University, could be mad at the world about all the misfortune life dumped at his Philadelphia doorstep.
There was the woman, his birth mother, who abandoned him to a series of foster homes at 3. There was...Tags: Science and Technology, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Flu, Basketball
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