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Niger's military junta revokes a military accord with the United States that allowed U.S. Defense Department personnel on its soil.
2024-03-17

Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the United States of trying to "draw Russia into war" in Ukraine as a pretext to impose more sanctions in order to "contain Russia's development". Putin also says that the U.S. has ignored Russia's concerns about the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe.
2022-02-1

Authorities in Haiti says that members of the "400 Mawozo" gang are behind the kidnapping of 16 American citizens and one Canadian citizen yesterday near Port-au-Prince. Those kidnapped include seven women, five men and five children.
2021-10-17

India reports 78,761 new cases in the past 24 hours, thus marking the highest single-day rise in case numbers recorded anywhere in the world. The record was previously set by the United States, which reported 77,638 new cases on July 17. This puts India's overall case tally to 3.5 million.
2020-08-30

The human rights group International Rights Advocates formally launches a lawsuit in the United States against Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. (Google), Tesla, Inc., Dell and Microsoft on behalf of 14 Congolese families whose children died or were injured in Copperbelt mines that supply cobalt for the firms' lithium-ion battery products.
2019-12-16

A slow moving wintry storm system is responsible for more than a dozen deaths in the U.S. states of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
2015-11-28

American electronics company Apple Inc. and Korean company Samsung Electronics agree to end their patent litigation outside the United States.
2014-08-6

The United States launches a prosecution against Liberty Reserve, based in Costa Rica, for money laundering worth $6 billion.
2013-05-28

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC loses a patent infringement case in the United States, with the United States International Trade Commission ruling that Apple Inc.'s iPhone technology does not violate HTC's patents.
2011-10-18

Fedor Emelianenko records only the second loss of his career as he is tapped out by Fabrício Werdum at the "Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum" mixed martial arts match in San Jose, California, US.
2010-06-26