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Legislators Query Holder on NSA Phone Records
Testifying before a previously scheduled Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Justice Department's budget, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday was met with questions regarding Wednesday's report by Britain's Guardian newspaper that the National Security Agency has been secretly collecting phone records of tens of millions of Americans who use Verizon as their landline or cell phone carrier. ...

South Korea Accepts North's Surprise Offer of Talks
South Korea is proposing a date and venue for talks with North Korea. The proposal comes just hours after Pyongyang made a surprise offer for talks on a wide range of issues and said it would leave it up to Seoul to choose the timing and location. This marks a significant reversal of tensions on the peninsula, which had been ...

Erdogan: Taksim Plans To Go Ahead, Despite Protests
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government will go ahead with controversial plans to redevelop Istanbul's Taksim Square, despite mass antigovernment protests. ...

Navy Names Multiple Ships
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the next three joint high speed vessels (JHSV) will be named USNS Yuma, USNS Bismarck and USNS Burlington, and two littoral combat ships (LCS) will be named USS Billings and USS Tulsa. ...

US Commander Issues Stern Warning on S. China Sea Disputes
The top American military commander in the Pacific issued a stern warning to any country that might try to seize control of disputed areas in the South China Sea: ...

Last Type 42 warship decommissions
HMS Edinburgh, the last of the Royal Navy's Type 42 destroyers, officially bows out of service, Thursday 6 June.