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Obama to set nuclear arms cut goal in Berlin speech
President Barack Obama will unveil plans for a sharp reduction in nuclear warheads in a landmark speech at the Brandenburg Gate that comes 50 years after John F. Kennedy declared "Ich bin ein Berliner" in a defiant Cold War address.
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Two phone and Internet surveillance programmes run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) helped disrupt over 50 potential terrorist attacks against the US and its allies, the agency's chief said.
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Indian-American legal luminary Sri Srinivasan was on Tuesday sworn-in as a judge in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the second most powerful court in the United States after the Supreme Court.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon has called for a collective global action to build resilience and prepare for droughts, as well as to combat desertification (a type of land degradation).
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The US and Cuba will discuss this week the possibility of re-establishing direct mail, suspended 50 years ago, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Syria's civil war, a meeting which could set the tone for the G8 summit, with the West at odds with Moscow over the conflict.
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US President Barack Obama arrived in Northern Ireland on Monday for the first day of the G8 summit and potentially vexatious talks on Syria with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
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Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas has said that he would step down from his position after a massive corruption scandal surfaced, in which one of his top aides has been indicted for bribery.
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A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Mexico on Sunday. The quake struck just after midnight local time (0519 GMT), east of the city of Huitzuco, in Guerrero state, at a depth of about 30 miles, according to Mexico's National Seismological Service and the US Geological Survey.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the current efforts by Myanmar's parliamentarians to "foster genuine dialogue and participation by all political parties in the reform process" in the country.
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