ROME, May 15, 2013 (AFP) Italy on Wednesday said the United States was transferring 200 marines and two planes to its base at Sigonella in Sicily to deploy in Libya in case US diplomats come under attack as they did last year. Speaking in parliament after leftist lawmakers complained they had not been told about the deployment, Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said the transfer was "in accordance with bilateral ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2013 (AFP) America's Cup bosses announced Friday a probe into why the AC72 yacht on which Briton Andrew Simpson died "nose-dived" into the water, and said other AC72 boats will not train until next week. They also refused to rule out any options when asked if the AC72 catamaran could be dropped from the race or if the race itself could be cancelled -- although the main organizer said ...

WASHINGTON, May 03, 2013  (AFP) Alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother had originally planned to commit suicide attacks during Fourth of July celebration, reports said. The ethnic Chechen brothers had considered striking during Boston's large city celebrations to mark the Fourth of July but aborted the plan after building their pressure-cooker bombs quicker than ex ...

By Tarik Elbarakah Morocco World News Rabat, April 17, 2013 US president Barack Obama has been reported to be addressed a letter that tested positive for containing poison, NBC NEWS said on Wednesday according to officials. The letter with the suspicious substance was received at an off-site White House mail facility on Tuesday and a federal law enforcement official said to NBC NEWS that the letter was very ...

April 09, 2013 (AFP with Al Arabiya) The U.S. Navy said Monday it is preparing to roll out a sea-based laser weapon capable of disabling small enemy vessels and shooting down surveillance drones. The laser system will be deployed in 2014, two years ahead of schedule. Chief of Naval Research Admiral Matthew Klunder said the cost of one blast of “directed energy” could be less than $1. “Compare that to the hu ...

WASHINGTON- March 12, 2013 (AFP) Detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp are staging a hunger strike to protest the confiscation of personal items, including Qurans, in early February, their lawyers and prison officials said Monday. "My client and other men have reported that most of the detainees in Camp 6 are on strike, except for a small few who are elderly or sick," said Pardiss Kebriaei, a New York ...

March 03, 2013 An advertising drive is expected to take Washington D.C by storm on Monday as the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Visualizing Palestine call on the United States to halt $30 billion of military aid to the Jewish state. The campaign comes as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) began it’s an annual policy meeting in the U.S. capital on Sunday. This will continue ...

By Veronica Smith WASHINGTON — Feb 28, 2013 (AFP) The broad US "sequester" spending cuts that take effect beginning Friday will slow growth in the world's biggest economy and hit the global economy, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday. "There will be an impact on global growth," IMF spokesman Bill Murray said. "We'll have to reevaluate our growth forecast for the United States and also our other f ...

WASHINGTON, February 23, 2013 (AFP) The Barack Obama administration took another step toward institutionalizing gay marriage, formally asking the US Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 law defining marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman. The request was contained in a legal brief filed Friday with the US court, whose nine justices will next month review whether or not to repeal the federa ...

By Said Temsamani Morocco World News Washington, February 15, 2013 Americans expected President Obama's message during the State of the Union to have a more conciliatory tone than that he used at the inauguration of his second term. Actually, the U.S. President reeled before the two chambers an exciting agenda of priorities intended primarily to boost the economy, and sought these policies’ support in an ov ...

New York, February 2, 2013 (AFP) Around 60 students at Harvard University have been suspended and others disciplined in a mass cheating scandal at the elite college, the administration said Friday. Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael Smith told staff and students at the university near Boston that "somewhat more than half" of the cases under investigation ended with students being required "to withdra ...

December 24, 2012 (AFP) Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held "constructive" talks in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad, as Washington warned that his regime's days are numbered. As jihadists seized an area populated by the embattled leader's Alawite community, the opposition National Coalition accused Damascus of committing a "massacre" of dozens of civilians in the bombing of a bakery. The United States con ...