Last Minute News Topics

Archive for the ‘Local’ Category

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Agriculture Department on Monday released bleak figures on the state of hunger in the United States, showing that more American families are having difficulty feeding their members.

Read more:
Bleak US hunger figures released

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said Monday “now is the time” for Iran to show it wants to be a responsible member of the world community after the IAEA criticized Tehran for refusing to meet international obligations.

Continued here:
Iran must show world it wants to be ‘responsible’

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – The CIA provides hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan’s spy service, including payments for the capture or killing of wanted militants, a US newspaper reported, citing unnamed officials and former officials.

Read the original post:
CIA offers bounties to Pakistani intelligence: report

AFP – NAIROBI (AFP) – Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of financing the 1994 Rwandan genocide and is one of the most wanted men in Africa, is currently in Kenya, a senior US official said here Monday.

Excerpt from:
Top Rwanda genocide fugitive in Kenya: US envoy

AFP – CHICAGO (AFP) – A near-empty Illinois prison is among the US locations being considered to house transferred Guantanamo detainees, officials announced Sunday.

Link:
Illinois prison mulled for Guantanamo detainees

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – Groups opposing Cuba’s communist regime have dramatically shifted funding toward the US Democrats since the party took control of Congress in last year’s elections, according to a study published on Monday.

Read the original post:
Anti-Castro Cubans shift funding to US Democrats

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama’s drive to remake US health care could face a critical test vote in the US Senate, where lawmakers await an influential report on the plan’s cost and overall impact.

See the rest here:
US health overhaul could face key Senate test