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Islamic State has the US in a new video threat of attacks in the capital Washington and the bombings on maintaining Syria.

The Central American Nicaragua has closed the border for hundreds of Cuban asylum seekers who were en route to the United States. Security forces Sunday sent refugees back that would have entered the country illegally from Costa Rica.

The top of the Republican Party in the United States is deeply concerned about the unrelenting march of presidential candidate Donald Trump and Ben Carson. The party leadership fears that if one of the two will nominate for the presidential elections next year, the profit driven will go to the Democrats.

US Secretary of State John Kerry hopes that the participants in the consultations on the war in Syria will not put the heels in order to defend their own interests. He said Thursday in Washington that to start with the United States should overcome their disagreements with Russia and Iran on the tenure of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad.

The United States and Cuba achieve expected before the end of the year, an agreement on scheduled flights between the two countries. This has Josefina Vidal of the Cuban Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in Washington.

US President Barack Obama said that despite the disagreements over the nuclear agreement with Iran, the US should work with Israel against terrorism and the quest for peace with the Palestinians. Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday in Washington for the first time since the signing of the nuclear pact.

The former Russian minister and media adviser Mikhail Lesin is Wednesday at the age of 57 deceased of a heart attack. This was announced on several American and Russian media Friday. According to ABC News, which cites American and Russian sources, the former politician was Thursday found dead in his hotel room in Washington.

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A 86-year-old woman from the US state of Washington has escaped after she was stopped by three teenagers in the trunk of her car. The trio was then driven away by car.

The United States is " deeply concerned " that there is pressure exerted on media and individual journalists around the Turkish elections. Which the White House said Monday.

The United States are less than fifty men of a special unit to northern Syria. President Obama has given its consent to the deployment of this ground troops. That Friday announced in Washington. Sending a small unit in the fight against Islamic State was a few days ago by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced.

The consultations Friday in the Austrian capital Vienna has started the war in Syria is the,null, beginning of a serious discussion, '' said development minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs).,null, It's a small start. ''

An Iranian-American businessman improving ties between Iran and the United States promoted, has been arrested, according to the Wall Street Journal about two weeks ago in the Iranian capital Tehran. The American newspaper is based on sources that have been informed of the arrest. Which would be carried out by security forces affiliated with the spiritual leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei. Where he is accused of, is not clear.

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Friday in Vienna takes part in international discussions on the civil war in Syria. He did this on Wednesday.

Washington is in fact in retrospect engage Iran in political dialogue on the civil war in Syria. Earlier, the US opposes any Iranian role, but a government spokesman said Tuesday that it assumes that Iran will be invited to attend international talks on Syria in Vienna. Supports Iran, like Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also militarily.

China, the arrival of an American warship, which is heading for artificial islands in the South China Sea, condemned. The Chinese embassy in Washington said that the US " should not use freedom of navigation as an excuse to show muscles " the. Also, it should not undermine the sovereignty and security of other countries.

The United States is concerned about Russian activities in the vicinity of major internet cables on the seabed. According to New York Times Washington holds even consider a physical cyberattack ' in times of crisis.

British Prime Minister David Cameron must during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in London this week openly urging him to release Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia . To that end call other twelve Nobel prize-winners , led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu him.

Russia, the United States offered to collaborate more closely in Syria . Washington , however, is not addressed there, said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov on Saturday at a security conference in Beijing.

North Korea is serious about ending its nuclear weapons program , the country is welcome at the negotiating table . US President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye expressed Friday in Washington unanimous: the door is open to North Korea's presidential leader Kim Jong -un .

US Secretary of State John Kerry will next week meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Germany . They will discuss the recent wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in which 39 people have been slain , said the Israeli ambassador in Washington Friday .

The Bundeswehr will remain longer than planned in Afghanistan. That the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin Friday.

How do you know if a piece of fruit just right, not yet ripe or rotting is it ? Beating, printing and smell can provide the answer, but in the future the camera of your mobile phone may offer a solution . Microsoft is working with the University of Washington with a camera that can detect details under the peel or skin .

America and Russia are putting the final touches to agreements to increase safety in the airspace of Syria. A US official made ​​known after a new round of talks.

Russian military aircraft over the last 24 hours thirty goals of Islamic State (IS) attacked in Syria. That happened 41 assault, reported the Russian Defense Ministry Wednesday .

The United States refuses to send a high-level military delegation to Moscow for talks on coordination of the fighting in Syria as proposed by Moscow . This said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to send Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to the US to agree on cooperation in the Syria crisis. By sending the head of the government , Putin underlined the importance that Russia attaches to this issue, said a spokesman for the Kremlin Tuesday .

The Washington Post Monday denounced the sentencing of its correspondent in Iran for spying as "an outrageous injustice". The American newspaper urged Iranian leaders to reverse the verdict.

The UN envoy who should organize talks to bring an end to the war in Syria, said he first hopes for a swift agreement between Russia and the United States. Which can then form the core of one or more contact group of countries, said UN envoy Staffan de Mistura Monday.

A court in Iran would have an appointment in the notorious case against Jason Rezaian ( 39 ), correspondent for The Washington Post. According to the newspaper, however, is still unclear what the verdict.