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  • Clashes in the Guantanamo prison between inmates and guards over hunger strike prisoners

    Prisoners and guards have clashed at Guantanamo Bay as authorities moved inmates, many of whom are on hunger strike, out of communal cellblocks. The move came after detainees covered surveillance cameras and windows, a US Army spokesman said. He said some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and in response "four less-than-lethal rounds" were fired. The Pentagon says 43 prisoners are on hunger strike, but lawyers for the detainees say the number is higher. Almost a dozen are being  

  • John Kerry visits Beijing to urge China’s leaders to use their influence on North Korea

    US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Beijing to urge China's leaders to use their influence on North Korea to reduce regional tensions. Speaking to President Xi Jinping, Mr Kerry said the world was facing a "critical time". Mr Kerry's four-day tour of Asia comes amid speculation that North Korea is preparing for a missile launch. He has said that as the closest ally of Pyongyang China should "put some teeth" into urging restraint. A flurry of warlike statements from Pyongya  

  • Tens of thousands demanding citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants

    Tens of thousands of demonstrators have rallied across the US in a mass call for citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. The co-ordinated protests were designed to press Congress to act as senators negotiate an immigration reform bill. In Washington DC cheering crowds gathered outside the Capitol, and more than 1,000 demonstrated in Atlanta. Lawmakers are expected soon to unveil a bill that would grant a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants. The push for im  

  • lone star college stabbing accident : 14 students wounded with a student knife

    (CNN) -- Dylan Quick overcame a childhood disability and had big plans for the future. But on Tuesday, the 20-year-old student went on a stabbing spree on his Texas college campus, authorities said. By the time campus police took him into custody, 14 people had been injured at Lone Star College. It's unclear how many of the injured were stabbed and how many suffered other injuries. The campus shut down Tuesday, but will reopen Wednesday. Quick landed in jail. For now, his plans for  

  • US : Americans support a ban on assault weapons and other measures to control firearms

    US President Barack Obama appeared to fight back tears as he urged lawmakers to vote on gun control legislation that appears to be stalling in Congress. Speaking in Connecticut where 26 people died in a December school massacre, Mr Obama said citizens must demand action. Opinion polls have shown a majority of Americans support a ban on assault weapons and other gun control measures. But gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association, have been lobbying politicians again  

  • U.S. diplomat ” Anne Smedinghoff ” Killed in a separate attack in Afghanistan

    (CNN) -- Anne Smedinghoff lived inside a heavily secured compound. But the public diplomacy officer for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul was always pushing to get out. "We thought she was relatively safe in the embassy compound, but as it turned out, Anne really wanted to do a lot more," her father, Tom Smedinghoff, told CNN on Sunday. "She was always finding projects and assignments that took her outside to the various provinces within and around Afghanistan, and that was what she wanted to do.  

  • US delay an intercontinental ballistic missile test

    The US has delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test scheduled for next week, defence officials say. The Minuteman 3 test was put off over concerns it could be misinterpreted by North Korea, amid fears of a conflict. It could be postponed until May, in what correspondents say will be portrayed by Pyongyang as a victory. North Korea has issued a series of unusually strong threats since it was sanctioned by the UN in March for carrying out a third nuclear test. It has thre  

  • US ” would not be surprised ” if North Korea launched a missile

    US officials have played down the threat of war on the Korean peninsula, after weeks of bellicose statements from Pyongyang. A White House spokesman said the US "would not be surprised" if North Korea launched a missile, while a top US military officer said recent threats appeared to fit a familiar pattern. Pyongyang has threatened to attack both US and South Korean targets. It has told foreign embassies it cannot guarantee their safety in a conflict. Diplomats in Pyongyang were  

  • US sends a missile shield to the Pacific island of Guam as North Korea threatens nuclear strikes

    The US is sending a missile shield to the Pacific island of Guam as North Korea threatens nuclear strikes. The Pentagon said the shield would be ready within weeks, adding to warships that were sent to the area earlier. The North had named Guam among a list of possible targets for attack that included Hawaii and the US mainland. North Korea is not thought to have the technology to strike the US mainland with either a nuclear weapon or a ballistic missile, analysts say. But it is  

  • John Kerry: the United States will not accept that North Korea be a nuclear state

    (CNN) -- The United States will not accept North Korea as a "nuclear state," Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Tuesday, just hours after Pyongyang announced plans to restart a nuclear reactor it shut down five years ago. North Korea's decision comes as tensions on the Korean peninsula escalate over Kim Jong Un's threats to wage war against the United States and South Korea. "The bottom line is simply that what Kim Jong Un is choosing to do is provocative. It is dangerous  
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