Washington : Hurricane Earl threatened to bring a violent end to the summer high season on the US Atlantic coast as tourists evacuated beach resorts in North Carolina and storm preparations were underway Thursday along most of the Eastern seaboard. The eye of the massive category 3 storm was expected to brush North Carolina’s picturesque [...]
San Francisco : Three people were killed in a small plane crash Thursday in a lagoon in the US state of California, authorities said. The plane, a twin-engine Beech 65 Queen Air, crashed in the Redwood Shores area at around 11:51 a.m. local time, just 30 seconds after taking off from San Carlos Airport, about [...]
Washington: US officials Tuesday warned residents across much of the US East Coast to prepare for strong surf and potential evacuations ahead of Hurricane Earl, which has already left a trail of damage across the north-eastern Caribbean. The category four storm with winds of 215 km per hour was continuing to dump rain on Puerto [...]
Washington : US President Barack Obama Tuesday declared an end to the US combat mission in Iraq, more than seven years after the US-led invasion of the Middle Eastern country. In live address from the White House less than two weeks after the last US combat brigade left Iraq, Obama said it was time for [...]
Washington : The US said Monday it has imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities connected to North Korea. The Treasury Department said the four individuals and eight entities being designated will face travel ban and assets freeze for providing support to the country’s nuclear programme, Xinhua reported. The new sanctions are seen as a [...]
Washington : US President Barack Obama was to mark the formal end of the US combat role in Iraq with a visit Tuesday to a Texas military base and a major evening televised address. Obama is expected to hail the transition to an Iraqi-led, civilian-led effort as a major milestone in the seven-year US war [...]
Washington : A leading US trade group wants India to adopt a nuclear liability regime channelling absolute and exclusive liability to nuclear power plant operators and establishing a sole remedy for compensation of claims. “These principles are basic to international best practices as reflected in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC),” [...]
Washington : Former US Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, is returning to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a leading US think tank to focus on American foreign policy toward India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Naming Blackwill, a deputy national security advisor for strategic planning under President George W. Bush, as Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow [...]
Washington : In a move that may benefit India, the United States plans to ease restrictions on selling products with military applications to foreign buyers as part of a restructuring of US export rules. Aimed at boosting American competitiveness in the technology and manufacturing sectors and strengthen national security, President Barack Obama will announce the [...]
Washington : There was no change in the US’ plans to extradite Russian businessman Viktor Bout, suspected of illegal arms trade from Thailand, the US Department of State said. “As far as I know, he remains in Thailand, and we look forward to having him in a courtroom here in the US,” Philip Crowley, the [...]