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A U.S. official says Iranian Navy gunboats are preventing the damaged Norwegian-owned "Front Altair" oil tanker from being towed away by two private tugboats in the Gulf of Oman.
2019-06-14

The United States deploys a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to respond to threats from Iran. A U.S. official told CNN, "... the threats were against both U.S. maritime and land-based forces in the region."
2019-05-5

South Korean President Moon Jae-in announces plans to create a Northeast Asian railroad community with North Korea, the United States, China, Japan, Russia, and Mongolia.
2018-08-15

Thousands are set for May Day demonstrations across the United States for immigrant and worker rights, and for civility in presidential campaign rhetoric. Organizers and authorities in California are urging participants to remain calm, given the violence this week connected with Presidential campaign protests.
2016-05-1

Nicaragua deploys its military to help close its southern border in a dispute with Costa Rica over the passage of Cuban migrants on their way to the United States. Nicaragua’s government said Costa Rica’s decision to grant seven-day transit visas to 1,200 Cuban migrants who entered the country through Panama, “violated national sovereignty”. Nicaraguan troops and riot police fired tear gas at people attempting to enter in what Costa Rica called a "humanitarian crisis".
2015-11-16

The United States and Russia reach a deal on Syrian chemical weapons.
2013-09-14

A lawsuit by the estate of Adrian Jacobs against Scholastic, claiming that J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" plagiarised one of his own works, is dismissed by a court in the United States.
2011-01-7

Fourteen people are killed in United States drone attacks in North Waziristan, Pakistan.
2010-11-7

Former Countrywide Financial Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo and two other senior executives agree to settle United States Securities and Exchange Commission claims that they misled investors and of insider trading.
2010-10-15

United States President Barack Obama signs the health care reform bill into law.
2010-03-23