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WASHINGTON (AP):After years of gridlock, this may be the moment when Congress at last does something about the millions of immigrants living illegally in the US.All eyes are on a 900-page Senate proposal with the you-said-a-mouthful title of the 'Border...

ISTANBUL (AP): Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades at Istanbul's Taksim Square yesterday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week.

The EU says the US government needs to give clarity on whether authorisation was given to use PRISM to transfer a bulk of data, or data targeting, of specific individuals.

NEW YORK (AP): Officials say new projections show 800,000 New York City residents could be living in flood zone that would cover a quarter of the city's land by the 2050s as rising seas and other effects of global warming take hold.

SEOUL: (AP): The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years tomorrow, in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity marked by recent threats of nuclear war.

WASHINGTON (AP):When the federal government went looking for phone numbers tied to terrorists, it grabbed the records of just about everyone in America.Why every phone number?"Well, you have to start someplace," Director of National Intelligence James...

BELLE ANSE (AP): The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.

Ninety-four-year-old Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital on Saturday for the third time this year. Earlier today, his former wife Winnie went to visit him in hospital.

WASHINGTON (AP):The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $1.74 billion loan for Tunisia to ease the country's economic strains more than two years after the revolution that toppled the former regime.The IMF says the two-year loan will...

UNITED NATIONS (AP):A team of experts led by UNESCO said last Friday it has found far more serious damage to Mali's cultural heritage in the fabled city of Timbuktu than initially estimated, with 16 mausoleums totally destroyed and over 4,000 ancient...

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP): President Barack Obama used an unusually lengthy and informal desert summit to present Chinese President Xi Jinping with detailed evidence of intellectual property theft emanating from his country, as a top United States (US) official declared Saturday that cybersecurity is now at the "centre of the relationship" between the world's largest economies.