Latest North America News
RSS-
President Barack Obama defends drone strikes - but moves to rein them in as Guantanamo closure rears its head again
Known for his commentary on international relations and US politics, Rupert Cornwell also contributes obituaries and occasionally even a column for the sports pages. With The Independent since its launch in 1986, he was the paper's first Moscow correspondent - covering the collapse of the Soviet Union - during which time he won two British Press Awards. Previously a foreign correspondent ...
-
Republicans Blast Obama Over Call To Repeal 911 Law on Military Force
President Obama drew sharp criticism from Republican senators Thursday for urging the repeal of the 2001 law that effectively authorized the war on terror. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., claimed the president was assuming Al Qaeda is "on the run," calling that mindset "really incredible." The president addressed the law, known as the Authorization for Use of ...
-
Press Digest-canada-may 24
Fri May 24, 2013 5:41am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's executive committee is preparing to take the extraordinary step of publicly urging the troubled leader to confront allegations of drug use, and is making ...
More North America News
RSS-
Press Digest-canada-may 24
Fri May 24, 2013 5:41am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's executive committee is preparing to take the extraordinary step of publicly urging the troubled leader to confront allegations of drug use, and is making ...
-
Press Digest-canada-may 24
Fri May 24, 2013 5:41am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's executive committee is preparing to take the extraordinary step of publicly urging the troubled leader to confront allegations of drug use, and is making ...
-
Press Digest-canada-may 24
Fri May 24, 2013 5:41am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's executive committee is preparing to take the extraordinary step of publicly urging the troubled leader to confront allegations of drug use, and is making ...
-
Obama seeks end to perpetual U.S. ‘war on terror’
Twelve years after the ';war on terror'; began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone ...
-
Obama offers tortured defense of targeted killings
In his speech yesterday at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, US President Barack Obama offered a tortured defense of extra-judicial assassinations, for the first time publicly acknowledging the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, in September 2011. Obama's remarks were characterized by an essential contradiction. He sought to defend drone assassinations, while at the ...
-
Drivers escape death as Washington state bridge on route to Canada collapses
In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a rescue boat approaches the scene where a pickup truck and travel trailer, seen at left, and a car fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (Francisco ...
-
Quotations of the day
"I was thinking that today could be my last day as a Boy Scout. Obviously, for gay Scouts like me, this vote is life-changing." - Pascal Tessier, a 16-year-old Boy Scout from Maryland, reacts to Boy Scouts of America's decision to accept openly gay youth as ...
-
Obama addressing Naval Academy graduates 2nd time
President Barack Obama reacts to CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin as she shouts at him from the back of the auditorium during his speech about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
-
Obama speech a retreat from terror fight
Republicans say President Barack Obama has capitulated to US enemies in a major counterterrorism speech, by renewing his call to close Guantanamo and retreating to a pre-9/11 mindset.Some of his critics on Capitol Hill were taken aback that Obama on Thursday argued that insurgents in Pakistan and Afghanistan were headed to defeat, and that he laid out new and potentially restrictive policies on ...
-
5 questions on Obamas security address
President Barack Obama’s security speech Thursday - covering topics from terrorism and drones to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay - was by far the most sweeping address he’s delivered on the subject since the early months of his first term.He made some concrete announcements, including a lifting of the moratorium he imposed four years ago on returning prisoners to Yemen. And ...
-
Obama drones on and on . . .
WASHINGTON - President Obama yesterday said the war on terror "must end" eventually as he called for more restrictive use of drones as part of a "comprehensive" rethinking of US anti-terror policy. In a major speech on national security, Obama floated new procedures to rein in lethal drone strikes that he has authorized repeatedly, and again called for closing the prison at ...
-
The United States and Azerbaijan have built a vibrant partnership - John Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry congratulates Azerbaijani people on the occasion of 28 May - the Republic Day. 'I am delighted to congratulate the people of Azerbaijan as you observe Republic Day this May 28. The United States and Azerbaijan have built a vibrant partnership, and we are committed to help buttress Azerbaijan’s independence, strengthening its democratic institutions ...
-
No Wonder Republican Criticism of Obama Isn’t Working
Henny Youngman, the late borscht belt comedian, told hundreds of politically incorrect jokes. One of them was his response when asked, "How's your wife?" "Compared to what?" he'd say. Many women find the joke tasteless, but it can be a useful framework for thinking about national politics. Americans may not be ecstatic about President Obama and his policies, but ...
-
Obama’s Speech Rehashes Gitmo Fight in Congress
President Obama's counterterrorism speech has reopened a long-standing battle on Capitol Hill about what to do with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, highlighting sharp divisions even among the president's political adversaries. Influential national-security leaders in the GOP--Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Kelly ...
-
Canada to allocate C$53m to Peru-focused mining and energy initiatives
Canadian mining executives hope Prime Minister Stephen Harper's meeting with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala will generate better use of C$4 billion in unspent mining royalties in government ...
-
Obama Institutes Guidelines for Drones
US President Barack Obama laid out strict guidelines Thursday for the use of drones outside war zones, for the first time giving the public a window on workings of the secretive anti-terrorist ...
-
Obama defends legal drone killings
President Barack Obama has defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving US counter terrorism ...
-
Irish storm chaser leads tornado recovery efforts
Oklahoma for the last two years, has even been taking part in search-and-rescue teams in the affected areas. He has made the Journey Church in Norman, just outside of Moore, an unofficial base camp, leading several other volunteers eager to do their bit in helping rebuild the community."For many of these people, all of their possessions are gone," he told the Irish ...
-
Man shot by FBI linked Boston bomber to triple murder
Boston police believe were committed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years before he bombed the city's marathon.Todashev, a 27-year-old Chechen immigrant, reportedly admitted that he and Tsarnaev were responsible for the killings and began to write out a confession, the ...
-
Oklahoma faces $2bn disaster damage bill
The tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive damage zone stretching more than 17 miles and the fact that the tornado was on the ground for 40 ...
-
As Anti-Gitmo Protester Heckles Obama He Says Her Voice Is Worth Listening To
President Barack Obama at a previous speech at the National Defense University (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama this afternoon was repeatedly interrupted by a female heckler who shouted at him from the audience, apparently to protest that he was not immediately releasing people from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S. government keeps terrorists, such as 9/11 ...
-
Americas truth-seeking drone program
if you are interested in contributing. The events of September 11, 2001, serve as a painful reminder that the use unlawful use of force, as designated by the World Court for acts of terrorism, resulted in the costly loss of innocent life. Since Western leaders condemned such acts as wrong and unlawful, it is only logical that Western nations follow by example by avoiding (engaging in) ...
North America Feature
-
North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
News from around our Network
