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Pence visits military base near Korean DMZ
 

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is visiting a military base near the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea a day after the North conducted a failed missile launch.

 
Combative Trump touts polls, rips ‘dishonest media’

President Donald Trump harkened back to the free-wheeling style of his unconventional 2016 Republican primary campaign in a 77-minute press conference Thursday during which he touted his poll numbers and took on the “dishonest media.”

Security ramped up for Trump’s inauguration

Inaugural week in the nation’s capital began Monday as security was being ramped up in preparation for the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump.

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Northern Ireland unity government crumbles; election set for March

Northern Ireland’s shattered unity government will be dissolved next week to make way for an early election demanded by the coalition’s main Irish Catholic party, the secretary of state for the British territory announced Monday.

Oman accepts 10 Guantanamo Bay detainees

Oman said Monday it accepted 10 detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office, part of his efforts to shrink the facility he promised to close.