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US, Japan Lay Out Objectives of Expanded Security Cooperation

U.S. and Japanese officials on Wednesday laid out guidelines for significantly expanded security coordination between the two nations, in order to better respond to what one senior state department official described as "the modern threat environment...

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North Korea Defends Rights Record at UN Briefing

North Korea is defending its human rights record, even while acknowledging it runs labor camps that have been slammed by rights groups as inhumane.

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Smuggling of migrants tops agenda at opening of conference on organized crime

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Asylum-seekers and economic migrants take to the seas, waiting out the dangerous journey in the...

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Airstrikes Hit Near Key Northern Syrian Town

Suspected U.S.-led airstrikes have struck near a key Syrian town along the Turkish border, where Kurdish fighters have spent weeks trying to hold off an advance by Islamic State militants.

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