US diplomat to travel to Japan, China
US Under Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller will travel to Japan and China for a series of meetings on arms control and security issues, the US State Department said Thursday.
Obama to visit Japan on April 23-25: sources
US President Barack Obama will visit Japan from April 23 to 25, several Japanese government sources said Thursday.
Obama visits Houston for fundraiser
US President Barack Obama has arrived in Houston to host a fundraiser in the run-up to the 2014 midterm election, hours after he mourned the victims of a shooting at a US Army base in central Texas.
Government, opposition to talk on ending protests in Venezuela
Conciliation talks between Venezuela's socialist government and the country's hardline conservative opposition will be held on Thursday, aimed at ending two months of anti-government protests, a cabinet official said Wednesday.
Brazil military vows not to curb protests during World Cup
The Brazilian armed forces will not contain the people's right to protest during the FIFA World Cup, Defense Minister Celso Amorim said Wednesday.
22 injured in stabbing rampage at Pennsylvanian high school
Twenty-one students and a security guard were stabbed early Wednesday by a 16-year-old boy student at a high school in the US state of Pennsylvania.
Obama pays tribute to victims in Fort Hood shooting
US President Barack Obama attended a memorial service and offered public condolences Wednesday at the US Army post of Fort Hood in Texas where a shooting spree last week left four soldiers dead and 16 others wounded.
20 injured in US high school mass stabbing
An American student stabbed or slashed 20 teenagers and an adult in a bloody 30-minute rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a Pittsburgh high school on Wednesday, officials said.
Vatican to mediate in Venezuela crisis talks
President Nicolas Maduro’s government and Venezuela’s main opposition group agreed on Tuesday to begin talks intended to halt the nation’s worst political unrest in a decade.
US to honor treaty, cut nuclear arsenal: officials
The United States will scale back its nuclear bombers, submarine launchers and ballistic missiles in the first cuts to its nuclear arsenal since ratifying a landmark treaty with Russia in 2011, officials said on Tuesday.