Seoul, South Korea: The U S special envoy for North Korea said on Monday that Pyongyang's claim of a secret new uranium enrichment facility is provocative and disappointing but not a crisis or a surpr

Miami: US state of Florida has confirmed its first case of cholera linked to the current outbreak in Haiti, but the disease is unlikely to spread because of better sanitation in the US, state health o

Washington: At least one in seven households in the US faced hunger in 2009, with those getting emergency food almost doubling between 2007 and 2009, at the height of the recession.

The number of h

New Delhi: With US President Barack Obama declaring support for India's bid for a permanent seat, China may move beyond its stated position by announcing a more pointed support for New Delhi's place o

Washington: The Pentagon on Tuesday said it was trying to determine if a missile was launched on Monday off the coast of Southern California and who might have launched it.

Spokesmen for the Navy, Ai

Washington, Nov. 8: The United States has offered to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism early to keep a January referendum that may partition the country on track, officials sai

New Delhi: The United States on Monday decided to relax its export controls of high-tech equipment to India, particularly in the defence and scientific areas, while agreeing to push New Delhi's member

New Delhi: India and the US have agreed to work more closely on counter-terrorism measures by deepening their dialogue on homeland security, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday at a joint news c

New York: Sikh groups in the United States are protesting against transportation officials’ plan to search turbans at airport screening stations in the country.

The groups are calling on their consti

Washington: A senior US official has ruled out the possibility of US President Barack Obama raising the Kashmir issue with Indian leaders, saying that the United States 'is not in a position where can