A woman has been shot dead by police in Washington DC after she attempted to penetrate the security barriers of the White House and Capitol.
The United States and Egypt have sought to repair ties strained severely by a year-and-a-half of rapid change in the Middle East.
The United States and its international partners have called for global sanctions against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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/ 22 February 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has planned a trip to North Africa that will include a major conference in Tunisia on Syria’s future.
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/ 9 December 2006
A United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip that was to be led by Desmond Tutu is in doubt because Israel has yet to give the Nobel laureate permission to enter the territory. Tutu was to begin leading a six-member team this weekend in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun to investigate the killings of 19 civilians in an Israeli artillery barrage last month.
A peace deal signed three months ago between Sudan’s government and the main rebel group in Darfur has failed to halt violence in the region, the United Nations said on Wednesday, citing an increase in rape and continued attacks by militias and rebel factions.
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/ 10 October 2005
The top United States trade official laid out a new proposal on Monday on agricultural tariffs and subsidies, saying the European Union and Japan must
now promise to do more to improve their own offers. With two months remaining before a deadline for a framework global trade treaty, ministers from World Trade Organisation members were once more confronting the thorny issue of United States and EU farm subsidies.
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/ 20 September 2005
Two European airlines will allow passengers late next year to use their own cellphones on commercial flights within western Europe, a Geneva-based technology firm said on Tuesday. TAP Air Portugal and British carrier bmi both have agreed to introduce OnAir’s voice and text service for cellphones in separate three-month trial runs.