And just a couple of days ago, Greenpeace activists set up a hanging "nuclear emergency camp" on the suspension cables of the iconic Gwangandaegyo bridge in Busan, South Korea, calling for the government to widen the official nuclear evacuation zone to a 30km radius.
Once the Republicans take over the House and increase their numbers in the Senate in January, Mr. Biden's role will widen, White House officials said, as Mr. Obama tries to capitalize on the relationships his gregarious vice president built over the course of 36 years in the Senate.
As their investigation widened, federal officials identified three men who "were in phone contact" with Farook and Malik in the days leading up to the shooting, a government official said.
State health officials, widening their investigation of liver transplant surgery, have ordered six hospitals to reassess the safety of their liver transplant procedures.
Mr. Carter would be the most senior in a widening group of officials and celebrities to visit the island in recent months.
Turkish authorities ordered the formal arrest of nine staff members of a leading opposition newspaper and detained more pro-Kurdish officials, widening an anti-terror probe that has drawn condemnation from the west.
The protesters gathered hours after Turkish authorities formally arrested nine staff at the secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper and detained more pro-Kurdish officials, widening an anti-terror operation that has drawn global condemnation.
WASHINGTON — There are widening divisions among officials of the Federal Reserve over the value of its efforts to reduce unemployment, but the authors of its bond-buying policy remain firmly in control, according to an official account of the January meeting of the Fed's policy-making committee.
REUTERS Dissentnt at the Fed on Measures to Lift Growth | The New York Times reports: "There are widening divisions among officials of the Federal Reserve over the value of its efforts to reduce unemployment, but the authors of its bond-buying policy remain firmly in control, according to an official account of the January meeting of the Fed's policy-making committee".
The concerns about the reliability of some of the camp's 70 military and civilian linguists only add to the growing mystery surrounding the motives and objectives of as many as 10 people who worked at the camp, had contact with the prisoners and now are under suspicion in the widening inquiry, military officials said.
