The Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States launched Tuesday an annual joint military exercise aimed at enhancing their interoperability in defense.
US President Obama and his Afghan counterpart Karzai discussed progress in handing over security responsibility towards a full Afghan lead in 2014.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has enlisted US street crime expert William Bratton to advise the government on handling gang violence.
US diplomats are visiting several African countries as part of efforts to urge leaders to press Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi to leave power immediately
Coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed the Taliban militants responsible for shooting down a US helicopter last weekend
The bodies of troops killed in the deadliest incident of the Afghan war came home Tuesday, traveling in death much the same way they did in life, shrouded in secrecy.
The Taliban lured US forces into an elaborate trap to shoot down their helicopter, killing 30 American troops in the deadliest such incident of the war
30 US soldiers died in Friday night's crash, which came just two weeks after foreign troops began a security handover to Afghan security forces.
It's the highest number of casualties recorded in a single incident in Afghanistan.
A mustard gas leak was detected Tuesday afternoon at a US Army chemical storage site in Pueblo, Colorado, but no one was sickened, a local newspaper reported.
The United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) should continue their dialogue so that they could understand each other's positions, US experts said.
Stephen Bosworth, the US special envoy to the DPRK, was in discussions with Kim Kye-gwan, the DPRK's vice-foreign minister, at the US Mission to the United Nations.