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S. Korea, US to hold live-fire drills after mine blasts

Aug 12, 2015 (AFP)

South Korea announced Wednesday a series of heavy-weaponry, live-fire military drills with the United States as part response to a recent landmine attack blamed...

N. Korea slams South-US drill, threatens strikes on White House

Aug 12, 2015 (AFP)

North Korea on Thursday condemned a looming South Korea-US joint military exercise as a "declaration of war" and boasted of its ability to make retaliatory stri...

S. Korea ramps up border security after landmine attack

Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)

South Korea ramped up border security Tuesday as military tensions flared following landmine blasts blamed on North Korea, and the presidential office in Seoul ...

If US drops Iran deal, dollar could suffer: Kerry

Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)

If the United States cancels the Iran nuclear deal, as some members of Congress urge, the blow to its credibility may be such as to hasten the end of the dollar...

Obama predicts support for Iran deal will grow

Aug 10, 2015 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama has predicted that opposition to his nuclear deal with Iran will erode as the agreement is implemented and a "parade of horribles" fai...

S. Korea blames North for mine blasts, threatens 'harsh' response

Aug 10, 2015 (AFP)

South Korea on Monday accused North Korea of planting landmines that maimed two soldiers on border patrol, sending military tensions on the Korean peninsula soa...

Japan's Abe rapped as Nagasaki marks 70th anniversary of A-bomb

Aug 09, 2015 (AFP)

Japan on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under fire ...

Iran disagreement shakes Democratic party politics

Aug 08, 2015 (AFP)

The White House responded with ill-disguised anger Friday to news that Chuck Schumer, a key Democratic ally in the Senate, will oppose the landmark nuclear deal...

Bikini nuclear refugees seek US aid to leave Marshall Islands

Aug 07, 2015 (AFP)

Nearly 70 years after they were uprooted to make way for United States' nuclear tests, Bikini Islanders have approved two new resolutions seeking Washington's a...

IAEA chief fails to reassure US senators on Iran deal

Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker said lawmakers left a Wednesday briefing by the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency "less assured" abo...

Iran says claims of nuclear site cleanup 'preposterous'

Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)

Iran on Thursday dismissed as "preposterous" claims that it was cleaning up its suspected nuclear military site at Parchin ahead of inspections agreed under a h...

Nuclear peace: mankind's most dangerous bluff?

Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)

In the nervous aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing 70 years ago, citizens spent decades on alert for a nuclear war that would wipe out billions in a radioactive ...

Atomic bomb still scars Hiroshima, seven decades later

Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)

Charred bodies bobbed in the brackish waters that flowed through Hiroshima 70 years ago this week, after a once-vibrant Japanese city was consumed by the searin...

Seventy years on, few Americans regret Enola Gay's mission

Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)

The Enola Gay was on its long flight back to its Pacific island base when co-pilot Captain Robert Lewis opened his log and scribbled down the many questions rac...

Obama warns rejecting Iran deal would spell war

Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)

President Barack Obama made an aggressive case for his signature nuclear deal with Iran Wednesday, telling lawmakers that rejecting diplomacy would lead to war ...

Ukraine reports seizing nuclear material in western region

Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)

Ukraine's security service said on Wednesday it had seized a small quantity of what appeared to be non-fissile uranium in a peaceful western region of the war-t...

Obama to evoke ghosts of Iraq, Soviet Union in Iran plea

Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)

President Barack Obama will present the Iran nuclear debate as the most momentous US foreign policy decision since the Iraq war Wednesday, in a fresh history-ev...

Kerry in Qatar to assure Gulf allies over Iran deal

Aug 03, 2015 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Gulf Arab counterparts for talks in Qatar Monday as he attempts to ease the concerns of key allies over the Iran nuclear de...

Lawmaker: Majority in US House oppose Iran nuclear deal

Aug 03, 2015 (AFP)

A Republican majority in the US House of Representatives will vote to block the Iran nuclear deal, a lawmaker announced Monday, but in numbers shy of the two-th...

The Iran nuclear deal and the 'what next' question

Aug 02, 2015 (UPI)

When George W. Bush made the decision to launch Operation Iraqi Freedom to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003, his administration failed to answer the simple but cru...