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The United States approves a move to send a second Patriot missile system to Ukraine.
2024-06-11

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Israel and reaffirms American support for Israel.
2023-10-16

Chinese video-sharing service TikTok sues U.S. President Donald Trump over his executive orders, signed earlier this month, that would effectively ban the app within the United States. The company says the executive orders are part of a "broader campaign of anti-China rhetoric" in the lead up to the upcoming presidential election.
2020-08-24

An apparent ambush in Niger near the Malian border leaves three U.S. Special Forces soldiers and five Nigerien soldiers dead during a joint patrol.
2017-10-4

In response to American criticism of the Duterte regime, Filipino foreign secretary Perfecto Yasay says the Philippines cannot remain as the "little brown brother" of the United States.
2016-09-16

A group of American scientists at Washington University announce in a study published in the journal "Neuron" that they have identified a number of genetic markers that are associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.
2013-04-4

A tour bus carrying the Seton Hill University women's lacrosse team veers off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and strikes a tree near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States, killing the team's head coach, her unborn child, and the bus driver.
2013-03-16

A drone attack conducted by the United States kills at least ten people (suspected militants) in South Waziristan, Pakistan.
2013-01-6

The BBC apologises after offending the sensibilities of Japanese viewers by broadcasting jokes targeting Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bomb attacks carried out by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
2011-01-23

South Korea states that it will hold more military exercises with the United States following the conclusion of a naval exercise in the Yellow Sea, despite threats from North Korea.
2010-12-1