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President Obama announced Friday he is creating the post of cyber security coordinator to oversee "a new comprehensive approach to securing America’s digital infrastructure." The president said he will personally select the person who takes on that post.
A plane crashed in northeast Brazil on Friday, killing 11 people, according to the official Agencia Brasil news agency.
Britain’s House of Lords voted Wednesday to suspend two of its members over corruption claims — the first time a lord has been barred from the chamber since 1642, a spokesman for the chamber said.
The deaths of about two dozen civilians in U.S. airstrikes in western Afghanistan this month were "most likely" accidental, according to a U.S
Former U.S. President Clinton has been tapped as a United Nations special envoy to Haiti, a senior U.N.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and an American man who recently swam to her lakeside home are scheduled to stand trial Monday. John Yettaw is charged with immigration violations and trespassing into a restrictive area, charges that carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison. He is accused of staying overnight in Suu Kyi’s lakeside home earlier this month, violating the conditions of her house arrest, according to the country’s ruling military junta, which rarely grants her visitors
Three charges have been filed against a Missouri man who is accused of swimming across a lake and sneaking into the home of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi while she was under house arrest, a U.S. Embassy official said Friday. A hearing for John Yettaw was held Friday at Insein Prison near Yangon, where Suu Kyi also is being held.
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President Obama said Monday that he has secured the commitment of several key industry groups to do their part to rein in the growth of health care costs. This pledge from the private sector could reduce the growth in health care spending by 1.5 percentage points a year, for a savings of $2 trillion over 10 years, according to senior administration officials.
A U.S. soldier in Baghdad opened fire on his fellow soldiers Monday, killing five American soldiers, a senior defense official said