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  • Ahead of strategic dialogue US official goes to India

    Ahead of US Secretary State John Kerry's June visit for the India-United States Strategic Dialogue, a senior American diplomat is travelling to New Delhi this week to exchange notes on the preparations. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, who will be in New Delhi May 24-25, will meet External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and other ...

  • Chinese hackers resume cyber attacks on U.S. companies government agencies

    Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on America three months after hackers, who worked for a cyber unit of China's People's Liberation Army, went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies. The hackers appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry security experts and American ...

  • Did Justin Theroux have bachelor party at NYC

    Justin Theroux is rumoured to have had celebrated his bachelor party in New York City. The 41-year-old actor, who was photographed enjoying a stag party at the Big Apple on Sunday, is fuelling speculation that he could be tying the knot with Jennifer Aniston sooner than expected, Contactmusic reported. A pal of Theroux, writer Gavin McInnes, posted a photo of himself fooling around with the ...

  • Obama to reveal Guantanamo Bay plans drones strategy on Thursday

    President Barack Obama will be speaking on his administration's evolving counterterrorism policies on Thursday, a White House official has said. The official told POLITICO that the president will also be discussing the administration's controversial use of drones and renewed plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Obama will discuss the country's broad counterterrorism policy, ...

  • India-US Homeland Security dialogue to begin today

    The four-day India-US Homeland Security dialogue between Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his American counterpart Janet Napolitano will begin here today. Threats from terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and al-Qaeda, illicit financing and transnational crimes are high on their agenda. Both the sides are expected to take stock of the existing mechanisms such as the Joint Working Group on ...

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G.I. Jane

In "G.I. Jane," Demi Moore's Lt. Jordan O'Neil joins director Ridley Scott's cinematic icons of female strength, endurance, and will-power. For those who don't remember, Scott is not only responsible for bringing the unforgettable duo of "Thelma and Louise" to the big screen, but he was also the first to direct Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the alien-busting, gun-toting heroine of the original "Alie ... ...

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  • Tornadoes tear through central US

    Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...

  • Feds NYU researchers took bribes from Chinese co.

    NEW YORK -; Three researchers are charged with taking bribes from a Chinese government-supported institution in exchange for access to restricted research from a New York University ...

  • Alaska unveils plan to assess gas oil in ANWR

    JUNEAU, Alaska -; Alaska has unveiled a plan to determine the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's oil and gas potential, as the state looks to reinvigorate the debate over whether to drill on the refuge's coastal ...

  • Education Department gives 3 more states waivers

    WASHINGTON -; Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement ...

  • Police Suspects mistakenly dial 911 during crime

    FRESNO, Calif. -; Two California men were in custody on Monday after accidentally dialing 911 on a cellphone before breaking into a car, authorities ...

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