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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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Crimes and Misdemeanors

"Crimes and Misdemeanors" is one of Woody Allen's most controversial and pessimistic films. Using a deft blend of Bergmanesque drama and his own special brand of neurotic humor, Allen concocts a film that tells two stories that don't fully intertwine until the last scene, which leaves you stunned because it takes all the hope out of what is essentially a morality play. One of the stories concerns ... ...

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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 ...

  • Alleged unmasked CIA agent leaves Russia

    Ryan Fogle, the man Russia's security services claimed to have captured last week as he tried to recruit a Russian to spy for the US, left Moscow Sunday, a media report said. Fogle checked in on a flight at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, NTV said. The Russian foreign ministry had earlier declared Fogle, a third secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, persona non grata for "activity incompatible ...

  • White House knew of damaging IRS audit weeks before it became public report

    Dan Pfeiffer launched a vigorous defense of the administration in a round of appearances on the Sunday talk shows, reiterating that President Obama knew nothing about the misdeeds within the ...

  • Slims America Movil says to buy Start Wireless Group in U.S

    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tracfone Wireless, the U.S. unit of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's phone company America Movil, has made a deal to acquire the assets of U.S. mobile virtual network operator Start Wireless Group, the company said on Monday.America Movil said in a statement that Start Wireless had around 1.4 million subscribers and offered pre-paid plans for voice, messaging and ...

  • IRS Illegally Seized Medical Records of 10 Million Americans Lawsuit Claims

    lawsuit filed in California in March claims that in the course of serving a warrant for tax records related to a single former employee of a southern California business, IRS agents "stole more than 60,000,000 medical records of more than 10,000,000 Americans." The agents did this in spite of the fact that such a seizure was not authorized by the warrant, was irrelevant to their ...

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