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Anti-Beijing protests flare as tensions rise between Vietnam and China
Anti-China mobs torched up to 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed many more in southern Vietnam as anger over the recent deployment by ...Barack Obama meets Syrian opposition leader in Washington
U.S. President Barack Obama has denounced the upcoming presidential election in Syria slated for June 3 as illegitimate, the White House stated ...US surveillance aircraft deployed to search for Nigerian girls taken by Boko Haram
The United States said it is flying "manned" missions over Nigeria in search of over 200 abducted schoolgirls, after the Lagos government ...Michelle Obama gives weekly address on kidnapped Nigerian girls
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama took the rare step of delivering her husband President Barack Obama\'s weekly radio address on Saturday to ...Putin urges Ukrainian militants to delay referendum on autonomy
President Vladimir Putin said Russia pulled back its troops from the Ukrainian border and called on separatists in the country\'s south and ...Climate change makes America more dangerous, report says
Scientists who worked on the report said its main messsage was that climate change was already disrupting the lives of Americans – ...OECD cuts global growth forecast for 2014
The OECD cut its global growth expectations from its November outlook from 3.6 percent to 3.4 percent for 2014, although it kept ...Young blood rejuvenates brains and muscles of old mice
A team of American researchers has been studying the effects of such experiments on mice. They found that an infusion of young ...Barack Obama jokes about Vladimir Putin and ObamaCare
US President Barack Obama poked fun at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Republicans and media elites, and even mocked himself for his ...US sprinter gets one-year ban for positive test
Tyson Gay, the U.S. record holder in the 100 meters, returned his 2012 London Olympics track and field silver medal for receiving ...