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Jeh Johnson, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, warns Americans to take a threat by Somalia-based al-Shabab to attack shopping malls in the US, United Kingdom, and Canada seriously.
2015-02-22

North Korea holds a trial for American tourist Matthew Miller who was detained in April and sentences him to six years of hard labor.
2014-09-14

A spokesman for the White House confirms that a video showing American journalist Steven Sotloff being beheaded is authentic.
2014-09-3

North Korea says it will put on trial two American tourists, Jeffrey Fowle and Michael Miller, for crimes against the state.
2014-06-30

North Korea announces that it arrested an American tourist last month for alleged inappropriate behaviour.
2014-06-6

American Amanda Knox is found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher together with Knox's former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
2014-01-30

After a failed U.S. extradition request Hong Kong says does not fully comply with the law, U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Moscow.
2013-06-23

American classical pianist Van Cliburn dies in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, at the age of 78.
2013-02-27

American country music singer Mindy McCready dies as the result of a suspected suicide at the age of 37.
2013-02-17

The President of the United States Barack Obama urges Americans in the path of the hurricane to take appropriate precautions for a "historic storm".
2011-08-26