President Barack Obama on Monday confirmed that US drone aircraft have struck Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets within Pakistan - operations that until now had not been officially acknowledged.

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A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant was shut down after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.

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US will take every possible step to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear-capable state, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said.

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Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is due to step down next month, arrived in the United States on Saturday for medical treatment, an embassy spokesman in Washington said.

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The Pentagon on Thursday proposed trimming the Army's size by 13 per cent as the debt-ridden United States winds down a decade of war but vowed new investments to exert power in Asia and the Middle Ea

A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005 was demoted to the rank of private on Tuesday but will serve no time behind bars, a military spokesman said.

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An ‘explosive’ film containing clips of extremists shooting Christians in the head and an Islamic flag flying over the White House has been shown to NYPD officers as part of their training, raising co

The United States on Sunday approved a visit from Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh for medical treatment but said it was with the understanding that he would stay only for a ‘limited time’.

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Brazil has returned to the US nearly 47 tonnes of hospital waste that had been intercepted last October in the northeastern state of Pernambuco by customs agents, an official said on Sunday.

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The death of a senior al Qaeda leader in a US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands, the first strike in almost two months, signalled that the US-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in ope