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• Archaeologists at Angkor Wat find large buried statue
• Venezuela defiant as US moves to sanction president
• China must decide on further action against North Korea: U.S. ambassador to U.N.
• Officer killed as siege at Kenya deputy president's home ends
• Luggage screening intensified after Australia airplane plot
• Vladimir Putin expels 755 US diplomats from Russia and threatens further action over sanctions
• Police disrupt plot in Australia to 'bring down an airplane'
• Putin says Russia to expel 755 U.S. diplomatic staff, more measures possible
• Hero Dog Runs To Get Help For Girls, 8 and 16, Struck by Lightning
• Ganyard on North Korea missile tests: 'We have to take this seriously'

Archaeologists at Angkor Wat find large buried statue Posted: 31 Jul 2017 01:48 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists at Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex studying the site of a hospital from eight to nine centuries ago say they have found a large statue in their excavations. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Venezuela defiant as US moves to sanction president Posted: 31 Jul 2017 01:15 PM PDT CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's socialist government on Monday claimed a popular mandate to dramatically recast the country's political system even as condemnations of the process poured in from governments around the world and the opposition at home. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

China must decide on further action against North Korea: U.S. ambassador to U.N. Posted: 30 Jul 2017 08:38 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is "done talking about North Korea" and China must decide if it is willing to back imposing stronger United Nations sanctions on North Korea over its two long-range missile tests this month, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday. Haley said in a statement that any new U.N. Security Council resolution "that does not significantly increase the international pressure on North Korea is of no value." The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers as a show of force after Pyongyang fired a second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Officer killed as siege at Kenya deputy president's home ends Posted: 30 Jul 2017 08:19 PM PDT Elite Kenyan security forces on Sunday killed a man at the home of Deputy President William Ruto, ending a 20-hour siege that left one officer dead and another wounded, security officials said. Ruto and his family were not at the vast property in northwest Kenya when Saturday's attack began, less than two weeks before what are expected to be tightly-fought elections. Ruto condemned the violence at a campaign rally on Sunday. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Luggage screening intensified after Australia airplane plot Posted: 30 Jul 2017 08:00 PM PDT CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Security remained heightened in airports around Australia with more intense screening of luggage after law enforcement officials thwarted what a police chief described on Monday as a "credible attempt to attack an aircraft." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Vladimir Putin expels 755 US diplomats from Russia and threatens further action over sanctions Posted: 30 Jul 2017 07:08 PM PDT Vladimir Putin on Sunday said the United States would have to cut 755 diplomatic staff in Russia and warned of a prolonged gridlock in its ties after the US Congress backed new sanctions against the Kremlin. The Russian president added bluntly that Russia was able to raise the stakes with America even further, although he hoped this would be unnecessary. A US State Department official denounced the move as a "regrettable and uncalled for act," adding that Washington was now weighing a potential response. On Friday, the Russian foreign ministry demanded Washington cut its diplomatic presence in Russia by September 1 to 455 people - the same number Moscow has in the US. Russian policemen standing guard in front of the US Embassy in Moscow Credit: AFP "More than a thousand people - diplomats and technical personnel - were working and are still working" at the US embassy and consulates, Mr Putin said in an interview with Rossia-24 television. "755 people must stop their activities in Russia." The US State Department would not confirm the number of US officials serving at the mission. Mr Putin added that an upturn in Russia's relations with Washington could not be expected "any time soon." "We have waited long enough, hoping that the situation would perhaps change for the better," he said. "But it seems that even if the situation is changing, it's not for any time soon." Mr Putin warned that Russia could further ratchet up the pressure, but he hoped this would not be needed. Russia still "has things to say and is able to further restrict areas of common activities, which may be sensitive for the American side," he said. The US Embassy in Moscow Credit: AFP If the damage inflicted by "attempts to pressure Russia" rises further, "we are able to look at other forms of retaliation. But I hope we won't have to do it," he said. "For the time being, I am against" any additional riposte, Mr Putin said. On Thursday, the US Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill to toughen sanctions on Russia for allegedly meddling in the 2016 US presidential election and for its annexation of Crimea in 2014.  The law now goes to President Donald Trump who had made an improvement in ties with Russia a plank of his election campaign - a position that his critics said was inexplicable. As of 2013, the US mission in Russia, including the Moscow embassy and consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok, employed 1,279 staff, according to a State Department Inspector General's report that year. That included 934 "locally employed" staff and 301 US "direct-hire" staff, from 35 US government agencies, the report said. That breakdown suggested the actual number of Americans forced to leave Russia would be far less than 755. "We don't have 755 American diplomats in Russia," said Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, in a post on Twitter on Sunday. Are we sure 755 Americans will be leaving? We didn't have that many Americans in the entire embassy when I was there . https://t.co/80rTZU7OP4— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 30, 2017 The cuts would likely affect how quickly the United States is able to process Russian applications for U.S. visas, McFaul said. "If these cuts are real, Russians should expect to wait weeks if not months to get visas to come to U.S.," he said. Russia also froze two US embassy compounds - a Moscow summer house and a storage facility in the city - from August 1. "I thought that we should show that we too are not going to stand by without a response" after "the baseless measures taken by the American side," Mr Putin said. In December, then US president Barack Obama ordered out 35 Russian diplomats and closed down two embassy summer houses that Washington said were being used by Moscow for espionage. At the time, the Kremlin said it would put any retaliation on hold until after Trump took office. High on the list of US grievances is the allegation that Russian operatives hacked Democratic Party computers at the peak of the troubled 2016 election campaign. Mr Putin on Sunday said Russia had proposed "several times establishing cooperation with the American side" on cyber-security. "But instead of starting to work constructively, all we hear are baseless accusations about interference in the internal affairs of the United States," he complained. Mr Putin and Mr Trump, meeting on the sidelines of the July 7-8 G20 summit in Hamburg, talked about setting up what Trump called an "impenetrable cyber security unit" to prevent hacking in future elections. Senior members of Trump's Republican Party poured scorn on the concept. Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the notion was "not the dumbest idea I've ever heard, but it's pretty close." Former presidential candidate John McCain said sarcastically he was "sure that Vladimir Putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort, since he's doing the hacking." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Police disrupt plot in Australia to 'bring down an airplane' Posted: 30 Jul 2017 05:20 PM PDT Australian police disrupted a plot to bring down an airplane and arrested four men in raids on homes in several Sydney suburbs, the prime minister said Sunday. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Putin says Russia to expel 755 U.S. diplomatic staff, more measures possible Posted: 30 Jul 2017 04:19 PM PDT President Vladimir Putin said Russia will expel 755 U.S. diplomatic staff and could consider imposing additional measures against the United States as a response to new U.S. sanctions, although not for now. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Hero Dog Runs To Get Help For Girls, 8 and 16, Struck by Lightning Posted: 30 Jul 2017 03:24 PM PDT They are steadily recovering, family members said. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Ganyard on North Korea missile tests: 'We have to take this seriously' Posted: 30 Jul 2017 02:42 PM PDT ABC News' Steve Ganyard and president of Ploughshares Fund, Joe Cirincione, discuss what the U.S. can do to combat the North Korea threat after its latest missile test. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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