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• Biden to Putin: 'Don't Tells Us, Show Us'

  07-02-2015 20:41
  
  "Too many times, President Putin has promised peace and delivered tanks and troops and weapons. So we will continue to provide Ukraine with security assistance, not to encourage war, but to allow Ukraine to defend itself," Biden said. Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry met Saturday with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who on Friday traveled to Moscow with French President Francois Hollande to meet with Putin and propose a new peace plan. M
  
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• Biden to Putin: 'Don't Tell Us, Show Us'

  07-02-2015 20:41
  
  "Too many times, President Putin has promised peace and delivered tanks and troops and weapons. So we will continue to provide Ukraine with security assistance, not to encourage war, but to allow Ukraine to defend itself," Biden said. Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry met Saturday with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who on Friday traveled to Moscow with French President Francois Hollande to meet with Putin and propose a new peace plan. M
  
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• US names its biggest threats

  07-02-2015 10:32
  
  Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) Russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine, terrorists and hackers are among threats cited in the new national security strategy document released by the White House. National Security Advisor Susan Rice fleshed out a 29-page report released Friday, in an appearance at the Brookings Institute, laying out the administration's foreign policy priorities, CNN reported. In the wake of Islamic State's (IS) potentially dubious claims that American hostage Kayla Mueller was killed in
  
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• Wars and foes: White House lists key threats in NSS - RT

  07-02-2015 09:00
  
  Wars and foes: White House lists key threats in NSS  RT
  
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• White House may reveal secret sections of 9/11 report hinting at Saudi funding to al Qaeda

  07-02-2015 08:49
  
  London, Feb 07 (ANI): The White House is considering revealing the secret sections of an official report into the 9/11 terrorist attack that refer to possible Saudi Arabian support to al Qaeda following the statement of a former operative of the militant group that said that major Saudi figures funded the group. According to the Independent, the questions over the report were raised this week after former al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui's disposition. White House spokesman Josh Earnest sai
  
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• US female captive killed in Jordanian air strike, claims IS

  07-02-2015 06:45
  
  London, Feb 07 (ANI): A US female captive has been killed in a Jordanian air strike in Syria, claim Islamic State (IS) militants. Releasing a statement, the IS said that Kayle Jean Mueller, an aid worker, was killed in the building where she was being held. The militant group hasn't provided any other evidence for the claim apart from pictures of the alleged site of the air strike in Raqqa, the BBC reported. In response, the White House had expressed its concerns over the reports, but said that
  
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• US 'primed to unlock potential' of India ties: Obama

  07-02-2015 06:08
  
  Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) The White House released its first National Security Strategy since 2010 with President Barack Obama saying as part of its rebalance to Asia and the Pacific, the US was "primed to unlock the potential of its relationship with India." "The scope of our cooperation with China is unprecedented, even as we remain alert to China's military modernization and reject any role for intimidation in resolving territorial disputes," he wrote in the introduction to the 29-page documen
  
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• After Obama's shots, NYT asks Modi to break his 'dangerous silence'

  07-02-2015 05:32
  
  Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) As President Barack Obama's comments that religious intolerance in India would have shocked Mahatma Gandhi raised a storm in India, the New York Times asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his "deafening silence." Mahatma Gandhi's legacy is an inspiration for the US too, said the White House, while a bipartisan commission praised the president for his "timely comments" and the State Department said it encouraged all governments around the world to respect religious
  
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• Islamic State says U.S. hostage killed in air strike in Syria

  07-02-2015 05:07
  
  * U.S. hostage's family asks Islamic State to contact them * Jordan says it carried out air strikes on IS weapons warehouse * White House spokeswoman says Washington "deeply concerned" * Woman the last-known U.S. hostage held by militant group (Adds statement from hostage's family, paragraphs 3, 12-13) By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Islamic State said on Friday that an American woman hostage it was holding in Syria was killed when Jordanian fighter jets bombed a building where she w
  
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• Family Of IS Hostage Hopeful She Is Still Alive

  07-02-2015 04:58
  
  The family of US hostage Kayla Jean Mueller say they are hopeful she is still alive despite Islamic State claims that she was killed in a Jordanian airstrike. "You told us that you treated Kayla as your guest, as your guest her safety and well-being remains your responsibility," they said, addressing "those in positions of responsibility for holding Kayla". Islamic State said the 26-year-old aid worker died on Friday after Jordanian warplanes struck the building where she was
  
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• How Obama's latest national security strategy is more forest, less trees

  07-02-2015 00:19
  
  The national security strategy that the White House released Friday might be summed up as the “more forest, less trees” blueprint for how President Obama envisions conducting his foreign policy for his final two years in office. Those larger threats, which will require a toolbox supplied with more than the US military and a major dose of “strategic patience,” range from nuclear proliferation and cybersecurity to climate change, energy security, and the weakening of an international order
  
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