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S. and North Korea envoys reopen nuclear talks Thursday, seeking ways for Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear programs in return for much-needed aid.The countries were on the verge of a deal to have Washington provide food if Pyongyang suspends its uranium enrichment program when the agreement was upended by the death of the country's longtime leader Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17."Today is, as we say, 'Game day.' We will have an opportunity to meet with First Vice Foreign Minister Kim and his team," U.S. envoy Glyn Davies said before the start of morning talks with Kim Kye Gwan at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing.The two will hold a second session Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Embassy.Davies said it was a good sign that North Korea had agreed to re-enter talks so soon after the death of Kim Jong Il as the country transfers power to his young son, Kim Jong Un, and a coterie of advisers.He said a key point was to see if North Korea was willing to fulfill obligations made in a joint stateme...Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming.Did Mitt Romney really cut taxes as Massachusetts governor, as he asserted yet a...
Pakistan will ask Interpol to arrest ex-President Pervez Musharraf for his failure to prevent the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , the interio...
A Morrocan-born man charged with plotting a suicide bombing inside the U.S. Capitol waived his rights Wednesday to preliminary and detention hearings.Amine El Khalif...
Media center came under fire
A French photojournalist and a prominent American war correspondent working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday by Syrian shelling of the opposition strong...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- A top military official says that U.S. troops are now deployed in four central African countries as part of U.S. efforts against a brutal rebel gro...
JERUSALEM -- Israel gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank , a move that drew rebukes from...
Exercises precede U . S .-North Korea nuclear talks
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Obama’s Revisits Re-Election “Fairness” Theme with Corporate Taxes; Santorum Brings Conservative Bad Boy Appeal to DebateTax ‘Fairness’ is in the Eye of the Beholder...
Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and ...
The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled its corporate tax reform plan, calling for lowering the corporate rate from 35 to 28 percent while closing loopholes e...