RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped off the diplomatic track on Thursday and onto a West Bank street where he sampled a shawarma sandwich and a pistachio-sprinkled Palestinian sweet.
In a rare gesture for a U.S. secretary of state - but a staple of U....
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By Jonny Hogg
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Troubled eastern Congo has the best chance in years to secure a lasting peace but the United Nations stands ready to pacify the region by force if need be, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Department of Commerce faced questions on Thursday about her role in the failure of a Illinois bank in the early 2000s and her billionaire family's use of offshore tax havens to shelter income.
Senator John Thune, t...
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By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will vow on Thursday to be more open to the public about the U.S. fight against terrorism and may lay out limits for the use of lethal drones abroad while sketching a vision for closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Representative Darrell Issa said on Thursday he will call Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner back to testify before his committee on the IRS-Tea Party scandal after she asserted her constitutional right not to answer questions.
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By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of a banned British radical Islamist group who knew one of the men who hacked a soldier to death on London streets said on Thursday British foreign policy was to blame for the attack.
Anjem Choudary said Michael Adebolajo ...
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