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New York - On Tuesday, June 18, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said insurgents fired two rockets into the Bagram Air Base outside the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Las Vegas - The tweet comes after a conservative writer claims he heard Bill Maher call Palin's son "retarded" during his Vegas stand up act.

The Atlantic puffin population is at risk in the United States, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world, says CBC.

The Swiss government is reportedly going to allow banks in the nation to share some information with U.S. authorities. U.S. officials want to determine which Americans are using offshore bank accounts to hide their money and avoid taxes.

Washington - At a time where many feel some freedoms are being eroded in American society, First Amendment rights are still valued. This is evident in Washington, D.C., as at any given time, numerous people can be observed expressing themselves on a variety of issues.

During his 2008 presidential campaign, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to close Guantanamo Bay; the infamous Caribbean prison often associated with George W. Bush's War on Terror policies.

Morocco cancelled military exercises scheduled to begin this month with the US after the US called upon the UN to monitor the human rights situation in Western Sahara.

North Korea has said it will sit down and negotiate over its nuclear program if the UN sanctions leveled against it are ceased and the US and South Korea put an end to regional military drills.

A report issued by the Iran Project has criticized the US for its sanctions policy against the Iranian regime concluding that they have "contributed to an increase in repression and corruption in Iran" and may be alienating the Iranian people.

For over 50 years the United States has held firm on its embargo against Cuba, even as the world condemned it for doing so. It is now time that the United States accept that the embargo has failed and move on.