Kepler Telescope Team Finds 11 New Solar Systems »
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday. The discoveries boost...
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‘Barefoot Bandit’ Courtroom Drama Ends With 6-1/2 Year Sentence »
A federal judge in Seattle sentenced the “Barefoot Bandit” to the maximum six and a half years in prison for a string of thefts and burglaries after the 20-year-old bragged to friends in emails from...
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We’re Losing Control Of Our Digital Privacy »
Last week, millions of Americans stood up against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate’s related anti-piracy bill. Given the public outcry, it is not surprising that all four Republican presidential candidates have come...
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Bidding For Troubled L.A. Dodgers May Top $1 Billion »
The troubled Los Angeles Dodgers, one of baseball’s most storied franchises, began receiving bids from potential buyers this week in a sale that’s expected to set a Major League record at more than $1 billion....
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Gates Donates $750 Million To Fight AIDS, TB And Malaria »
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum. The donation comes in...
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5 Dead, 19 Missing In Rio Building Collapse »
Brazilian rescue workers dug through rubble in search of survivors Thursday morning, hours after three buildings collapsed in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro, Mayor Eduardo Paes told reporters. Nineteen people were still missing,...
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Tensions Flare Over Falkland Islands »
It’s been nearly 30 years since British and Argentinian troops fought over the Falkland Islands, but politicians from both countries are ratcheting up their rhetoric over the British-controlled territory. The ideological battle comes as Prince...
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US Official: SEAL Team In Rescue Also Killed Osama »
A U.S. official says the Navy SEAL teamthat rescued two hostages in Somalia was the same unit that killedOsama bin Laden. SEAL Team Six parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness Wednesday and rescued an American woman and...
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Obama says ‘tyranny no match for liberty,’ sees possible peaceful outcome on Iran »
President Barack Obama hailed the demise of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and warned Syria’s Bashar al-Assad that his regime’s days were numbered as he vowed enduring U.S. support for the ideals of the Arab Spring and...
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New York Mayor Criticizes Film Used In NYPD Training Alleging Extremists Are Out To Control The World »
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that New York police used “terrible judgment” in showing officers undergoing counterterrorism training a documentary-style film that says Muslim extremists are bent on establishing a worldwide Islamic regime. Bloomberg said...
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‘Blind Mules’ Unknowingly Ferry Drugs Across The US-Mexico Border »
Every weekday, Juan Andres drives across the U.S.-Mexico border from his home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to the University of Texas at El Paso. The three-and-a-half-mile commute takes him a world away from a major...
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Former CIA Officer Accused Of Leaking Classified Info »
Investigators charged a former CIA officer Monday with disclosing classified information to journalists on several occasions. John Kiriakou, a CIA intelligence officer from 1990 to 2004, illegally divulged information about two CIA employees and their...
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Police Use Of GPS Devices Limited By US Supreme Court »
The Supreme Court for the first time ruled on Monday that police attachment of a GPS device to monitor a suspect’s vehicle was a search protected by constitutional privacy rights, a test case involving new...
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SOPA And PIPA Postponed Indefinitely After Protests »
When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their...
January 20 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »
Judge-Drawn Texas Redistricting Map Tossed Out By Supreme Court »
The Supreme Court has tossed out the Texas redistricting map for congressional and legislative seats drawn up by a federal court, giving a partial victory to GOP lawmakers. In an unsigned opinion issued just 11...
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Obama Stresses Support For Democracy In Egypt, Says NGOs Should Operate Freely »
President Barack Obama stressed U.S. support for Egypt’s move to democracy and discussed its International Monetary Fund talks in a telephone conversation on Friday with Egyptian military council chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the White...
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Supreme Court Grants Death Row Inmate Chance For New Appeal »
The Supreme Court, citing a “perfect storm” of missing lawyers and unopened letters, gave an Alabama death row inmate a new chance to appeal his conviction in a case that sharply split the conservatives on...
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US Says Al-Qaeda Magazine Found In Guantanamo Prison Cell »
A copy of a magazine published by an arm of al-Qaeda made its way to a terror suspect at the Guantanamo Bay prison, leading to an inspection of cells and a contentious new policy requiring...
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Goldman Sachs Posts $1 Billion Profit »
Goldman Sachs reported a fourth-quarter profit of about $1 billion on Wednesday, reversing a loss from the third quarter and topping expectations. But the company’s revenue declined from a year ago and missed analysts’ forecasts....
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Housemate Raped Live On Brazilian Big Brother »
A housemate on Brazilian Big Brother was allegedly raped live on television in front of millions of viewers. Police moved into the Rio de Janeiro studio where the wildly popular reality show is filmed and...
January 17 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »
White House Locked Down After ‘Smoke Bomb’ Thrown Over Fence »
The White House was locked down on Tuesday night as authorities investigated what appeared to be a smoke bomb that was tossed over the fence of the White House compound. More than 1,000 Occupy protesters...
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Obamas Join Volunteers On Martin Luther King Day »
President Barack Obama and his family marked Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a volunteer service project at a local school. The Obamas joined other volunteers Monday morning at the Browne Education Campus in the...
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‘The Descendants’ And ‘Artist’ Win Top Globes; Clooney Best Actor, Streep Best Actress »
Silent-era film “The Artist” and family drama “The Descendants” were the top film picks at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in a loose-lipped awards show that even had host Ricky Gervais walking onto the...
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First Charge Filed In FBI Probe Of LA Sheriff’s Deputy Misconduct »
Federal prosecutors filed their first criminal charge in the ongoing investigation of deputy misconduct in the Los Angeles County jails, saying that an ex-guard has agreed to plead guilty to felony bribery and is cooperating...
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Supreme Court Rejects Curbs On Eyewitness Testimony At Trials »
The Supreme Court refused to put new legal limits on the use of questionable eyewitness testimony at trials, ruling Wednesday that juries must weigh the evidence and decide what is true. The 8-1 decision came...
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San Francisco Sheriff Charged With Domestic Abuse »
San Francisco’s new sheriff is facing misdemeanor charges over an alleged domestic abuse incident on New Year’s Eve, authorities said. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who was sworn in Monday, said Friday he will not resign. “We...
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Joran Van Der Sloot Sentenced To 28 Years For Peru Murder, VIDEO »
Peruvian judges on Friday sentenced Dutch national Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison and ordered him to pay thousands of dollars in reparations for the killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman in...
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Loggers Burned Amazon Tribe Girl Alive »
Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a campaign to force the indigenous population from its land, reports claimed on...
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Marine Corps Says It’s Investigating Video, Working To Identify Marines »
The Marine Corps distanced itself Thursday from a video purporting to show members of one of its sniper teams urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan, even as military officials said they could not immediately verify...
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Fake Memo But Real Code? India-US Hacking Mystery Deepens »
A memo that triggered a U.S. investigation into a possible cyber-attack by Indian military intelligence is probably a fake, but it is clear from leaked documents that serious security breaches did take place. A little-known hacker group, ‘Lords...
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US Supreme Court Says Judges Cannot Get Involved In Church Dispute »
In a groundbreaking case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held for the first time that religious employees of a church cannot sue for employment discrimination. But the court’s unanimous decision in a case from Michigan...
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Snoop Dogg Arrested On Marijuana Charges At Mexican Border »
Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested over the weekend after border control agents found what they said was a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus. The singer and record producer, 40, was stopped at...
January 10 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »
Top Obama Aide Daley Steps Down, Budget Chief Takes Over »
President Barack Obama said on Monday his budget chief Jack Lew would take over as White House chief of staff, replacing former businessman Bill Daley, who is stepping down after a troubled one-year tenure. Though...
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Iran Sentences Iranian-US Man To Death For Spying »
Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced an Iranian-American man to death for spying for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the student news agency quoted a judiciary official as saying, a move likely to aggravate U.S.-Iranian tension...
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White House Covered Up Tim Burton-Staged Alice In Wonderland Halloween Party »
The White House covered up an Alice in Wonderland-themed Halloween party staged by film director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp for fear of creating the wrong impression during a recession, a new book on...
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US Orders Expulsion Of Venezuelan Consul For Suspected Links To Iranian Plot »
The United States has ordered the expulsion of Venezuela’s consul general in Miami amid reports linking the diplomat to an alleged Iranian plot to target sensitive U.S. facilities with cyber attacks, the U.S. State Department...
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Papa John’s Apologizes For Receipt’s Racial Slur »
Papa John’s Pizza fired a cashier at one of its New York restaurants and apologized to an Asian-American customer for a receipt that identified her as “lady chinky eyes.” “We were extremely concerned to learn...
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US Considers Venezuela’s Incoming Defense Chief A Drug Kingpin »
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has tapped a leading general accused by the United States of being a drug “kingpin” to be the country’s new defense minister. Gen. Henry Rangel Silva will replace Carlos Mata Figueroa,...
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Marine Biologist Could Get 20 Years In Prison For Feeding Whales »
A California marine biologist is facing up to 20 years in prison and half a million dollars in fines for allegedly feeding a group of killer whales and then altering footage of the incident and lying to...
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Blackwater Settles Lawsuit Over The Killing Of Four American Contractors In Iraq »
The U.S. private security company formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit with the families of four contractors killed in a gruesome 2004 ambush that was a defining moment of...
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Remembering Gordon Hirabayashi, Japanese-American Civil Rights Hero »
Twelve years before the U.S. Supreme Court decided separate was inherently unequal, and five months after a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Gordon Hirabayashi took a stand that he believed would validate his rights as...
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With Congress On Break, SOPA Fight Continues »
Members of Congress may be on vacation, but that hasn’t calmed critics who say an effort to stamp out online piracy would create an unprecedented threat to free speech on the Internet. Far from fading...
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Fight In Mexican Prison Leaves 31 Dead »
A vicious fight among inmates armed with makeshift knives, clubs and even stones left 31 people dead in a prison in a drug cartel-plagued state in northern Mexico, authorities said. Another 13 prisoners were wounded...
January 5 2012 / No comment / Read More »
Osama Bin Laden Film Leak Claims Investigated »
The US military and CIA are investigating claims that classified information about the killing of Osama bin Laden was given to Oscar winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, a Republican politician has said. Peter King, chairman of...
January 5 2012 / No comment / Read More »
US Election 2012: Republican Donors Flock To Rick Santorum As He Raises $1 Million In A Day »
Republican donors are flocking to Rick Santorum, as he climbs New Hampshire opinion polls after his performance in Iowa and works to land endorsements from influential evangelical Christian leaders. Mr Santorum raised $1 Million (£644,000)...
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Frankenstein Ants Created By Scientists »
Scientists have bred supersoldier ants with enlarged heads and jaws by using ancient genes to trigger development. The monster ants, which use their size to protect the entrance to their nests, are a throwback to...
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Obama Vows US Military Superiority In New Pentagon Strategy, Puts More Focus On Asia »
President Barack Obama vowed Thursday that the U.S. military would maintain its “superiority” and bolster its presence in Asia despite planned cuts to the defense budget. “So yes, our military will be leaner, but the...
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US Doctors Going Broke »
Doctors in America are harboring an embarrassing secret: Many of them are going broke. This quiet reality, which is spreading nationwide, is claiming a wide range of casualties, including family physicians, cardiologists and oncologists. Industry...
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More Than 950 Protesters Invade Venezuelan Prison »
More than 950 relatives of inmates are refusing to leave a Venezuelan prison in a protest to demand faster trial for inmates. Prisons Minister Iris Varela says the relatives decided to “kidnap themselves” at the...
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Armed Texas Eighth-Grader Shot And Killed By Police »
Brownsville police spokesman Jose J. Trevino confirmed the 15-year-old officers shot at Cummings Middle School has died. Brownsville Independent School District representatives say the teen took a gun to the campus around 8 a.m. The...
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Last US Marine Faces Trial Over Haditha Killings »
After years of appeals and delays, the last U.S. Marine charged over the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in the Iraqi city of Haditha will go on trial Thursday in a military courtroom. United States...
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Man Arrested In NY Islamic Center Firebomb Attack »
A man hurled crude firebombs at an Islamic cultural center in part because he wasn’t allowed to use its bathrooms and targeted four other New York-area sites on New Year’s Day because of personal grievances,...
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Oklahoma Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder: 911 Operators Say It’s Okay To Shoot »
A young Oklahoma mother shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old baby on New Year’s Eve, less than a week after the baby’s father died of cancer. Sarah McKinley says that a week...
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Car Bomb Attack Outside Baghdad Hospital Kills 31, Say Medics »
At least 31 people were killed and 50 others wounded when a bomb exploded near a Baghdad marketplace on Friday in the latest attack...
Jan 27 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Analysts Say Turkey On Wrong Track Over Armenia »
Turkey’s attempts to intimidate France and other countries over the question of the Armenian genocide are bound to backfire, analysts said as the 100th...
Jan 27 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Arabs To Davos Invest In Us, Don’t Fear Us »
Leaders of the Arab Spring sought to assure the world’s elite in Davos that the rise of political Islam is not a threat to...
Jan 27 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Egypt Slaps Travel Ban On US NGO Staff, Washington Urges Lifting Ban Immediately »
Egyptian authorities have slapped a travel ban on several U.S. citizens working for non-governmental organizations, preventing them from leaving the country, officials said on...
Jan 26 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Student Asks Medvedev: ‘Are You Ready To Suffer Saddam’s Fate?’ »
Outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suffered a rude jolt Wednesday when a student asked him if he was ready to stand trial for decisions...
Jan 25 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Protesters To Spend The Night In Tahrir As Egypt Marks One Year Since Uprising »
Protesters prepared to spend the night in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Wednesday after a massive rally to mark one year since the launch of...
Jan 25 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Russia Stays Firm On Syria; Head Of Syrian Red Crescent Killed »
Russia said on Wednesday it would consider “constructive proposals” to end bloodshed in Syria but was opposed to force or sanctions, as regime troops...
Jan 25 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Egypt’s Army Chief Lifts Emergency Law On Eve Of Revolution Anniversary »
Egypt’s ruling military leader, Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, said the controversial state of emergency law will be lifted from Wednesday, on the anniversary of...
Jan 25 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Maikel Nabil: The Unfinished Story Of A Jailed Egyptian Blogger »
As if by a stroke of serendipity, prominent Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil is to be released this week, after spending 11 months imprisoned by...
Jan 22 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Saudi Arabia Withdraws Its Monitors From Syria; Arab League Calls For Power Transfer »
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Sunday Riyadh was pulling its monitors from the Arab League’s heavily criticized observer’s mission in...
Jan 22 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Chief Of Iran’s Quds Force Claims Iraq, South Lebanon Under His Control »
Commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Brig. Gen. Qasem Soleimani has said that the Islamic Republic controls “one way or another” over Iraq and south...
Jan 20 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Hamas Calls For End To Peace Feelers After Arrests »
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas urged President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to suspend exploratory peace talks with Israel following Israel’s arrest of two Hamas...
Jan 20 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »More Labs Close To Deadly Bird Flu Mutations; ‘Transfer Mechanism’ For Data Expected In Weeks »
An international debate over whether to censor new research on bird flu may soon prove academic, as other laboratories close in on similar findings...
Jan 20 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Clashes As Israeli Forces Raze Settler Outpost »
Israeli forces clashed with angry settlers on Thursday during the demolition of a settlement outpost on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, police and settler sources said....
Jan 19 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Regime Forces Kill Leading Syrian Activists; Russia Says No To Western Intervention »
Syrian security forces killed four leading pro-democracy activists in an ambush in northwestern Idlib province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said....
Jan 19 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Barak Plays Down Talks Of Imminent Attack Against Iranian Nuclear Facilities »
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday any decision about an Israeli attack on Iran was “very far off.” Barak was speaking on Israel’s...
Jan 18 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Meteorite Found In Morocco Came From Mars »
Fragments of a meteorite which landed in Morocco last summer are extremely rare chunks of the planet Mars, scientists have announced. The rock was...
Jan 18 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Kim Jong-Un’s Brother Says North Korea Heading For Collapse »
The eldest brother of North Korea’s new leader says reforms are needed to avert the collapse of the country’s economy will lead to the...
Jan 17 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Al-Qaeda Kidnaps Algerian Governor Say Security Officials »
Al-Qaeda’s North African branch has kidnaped the governor of an Algerian desert region kidnapped from a town near the border with Libya after he...
Jan 17 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Mubarak’s Lawyer Says Ex-Leader No Tyrant, Case Brought In Response To Public Pressure »
Hosni Mubarak was “a just man, not a tyrant” and his accusers have no evidence to support their charge that he ordered the killing...
Jan 17 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Army And Rebels Agree Ceasefire In Zabadani; UN Council Struggles On Syria Resolution »
Syrian troops fighting rebels in the town of Zabadani near Lebanon agreed on Tuesday to a ceasefire as the U.N. Security Council diplomats held...
Jan 17 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »South Africa Closes Shark Attack Beach »
South African authorities have indefinitely shut down the world’s most dangerous beach for shark attacks after naming a man who was fatally mauled. Lungisani...
Jan 16 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Hackers Disrupt Tel Aviv Stock Exchange And El Al »
Pro-Palestinian computer hackers disrupted the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, Israel’s national carrier, on Monday, escalating a Middle East...
Jan 16 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »India Reports First Cases Of Total Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis »
India has reported its first cases of “total drug-resistant tuberculosis”, a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. Since 2003, highly...
Jan 16 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »UN Chief Says Illegal Israeli Settlement Building Against Two-State Solution »
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for an end to Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, saying the illegal building of settlements...
Jan 15 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Pakistan Taliban Leader Believed Dead In Drone Attack: Intelligence Officials »
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed...
Jan 15 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Car Bombs, Suicide Blasts Target Police Station, Mosque In Iraqi City Of Ramadi »
At least five people were killed and six more wounded after a series of explosives-packed cars and suicide bombs were detonated in the western...
Jan 15 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Mossad Agents Pose As CIA To Recruit Militant Pakistanis »
Agents with Israel’s Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in...
Jan 14 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Angry Mob Pelts Eggs At Apple Store In China Over iPhone 4S Release »
An angry crowd shouted and threw eggs at Apple’s Beijing flagship store after it failed to open on schedule on Friday to sell the...
Jan 13 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Afghan Boy Suicide Bombers Tell How They Are Brainwashed Into Believing They Will Survive »
Child suicide bombers say they were told by their handlers that the “bombs would not kill us, only the Americans would die”. The mission...
Jan 13 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Burma Releases 650 Political Prisoners In Move To End Isolation »
Burma’s regime released more than 650 political prisoners on Friday, taking the most significant step towards ending its isolation and securing the removal of...
Jan 13 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Chinese Police Raid Home Of Human Rights Activist Hu Jia »
The Chinese government continued to tighten its noose around critics of its rule on Thursday by raiding the home of a prominent human rights...
Jan 12 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Nike To Pay Indonesian Workers $1 Million In Unpaid Overtime »
International sportswear brand Nike has agreed to pay $1 Million in compensation to workers at an Indonesian shoe plant for two years of...
Jan 12 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Mystery Chinese Blogger Scores A Hit With Cultural Revolution Novel »
A novel by an anonymous Chinese author living in America, which started life as a blog, has become a worldwide publishing sensation. It has...
Jan 12 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Bomb Kills Nuclear Scientist In Iran; Tehran Blames Israel, US For Assassination »
An Iranian university professor was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Wednesday, a city official told...
Jan 11 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »As Many As 35 Killed, 69 Wounded In Blast In Pakistan’s Khyber Region »
A bomb killed at least 35 people and wounded 69 others on Tuesday when it exploded in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber region, an Al Arabiya...
Jan 10 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »China Launches Manhunt For Policeman-Turned Serial Killer »
Chinese police have launched a massive manhunt for a former colleague-turned-suspected serial killer and armed bank robber who has been on run for more...
Jan 10 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Assad To Address Syrians As Opposition Denounces Arab League, Urges UN To Take Over »
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, locked in a violent struggle against a wave of unrest, is to make a speech on Tuesday on “the internal...
Jan 9 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Saudi Monarch Holds Talks With Yemen PM; US Defends Draft Amnesty Laws For Saleh »
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz held talks with the visiting Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Basindawa in Riyadh on Monday as the United States...
Jan 9 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »Egyptian Coptic Billionaire, Naguib Sawiris, To Face Trial For Contempt Of Religion »
Egyptian billionaire and telecom mogul Naguib Sawiris will face trial on charges of contempt of religion after tweeting a caricature of Mickey Mouse and...
Jan 9 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »One Thousand Protest Dolce & Gabbana Hong Kong Store Over Photo Ban »
More than a thousand people protested outside a Dolce and Gabbana store in Hong Kong on Sunday after the Italian clothing store allegedly prevented...
Jan 8 2012 / No comment / Read More »China: The Rise Of The Precious Snowflakes 中国：“珍贵的雪花的”崛起 »
First there were the Little Emperors, the often chubby and spoiled first generation of children born under China’s one-child policy. Now the Precious Snowflakes...
Jan 8 2012 / No comment / Read More »Israel Will Boost Defense Budget By $780 Million »
Israel will boost defense spending by about 6 percent ($780 million) this year in the face of deepening regional instability, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Jan 8 2012 / No comment / Read More »US Reaches Out To Egypt’s Brotherhood; Islamists See Further Parliament Gains »
The United States is reaching out to the Muslim Brotherhood as the group gains political momentum in the parliamentary elections. “It’s clear that they...
Jan 8 2012 / No comment / Read More »Yemeni Government Decrees Amnesty for Saleh »
Yemen’s interim government agreed Sunday to grant President Ali Abdullah Saleh amnesty against prosecution, paving the way for his departure in line with a...
Jan 8 2012 / No comment / Read More »Israel Charges Five Jewish Extremists Over Army Base Raid »
Israel on Sunday charged five alleged Jewish extremists over a December raid on an army base, accusing them of gathering intelligence on the Israeli...
Jan 8 2012 / No comment / Read More »Kenyan Air Strikes Kill At Least 60, Wound 50 Al-Shebab Insurgents In Somalia »
Kenyan fighter jets killed at least 60 Islamist al-Shebab insurgents in southern Somalia in the latest air strike on insurgent positions, officials said on...
Jan 7 2012 / No comment / Read More »At Least 29 Killed In Syria; Regime Holds Funerals Of Damascus Bombing »
At least 29 people were killed by Syrian security forces on Saturday, the revolution’s general commission said, a day after a deadly bombing killed...
Jan 7 2012 / No comment / Read More »Iran Says US Rescue Of Sailors From Pirates Humanitarian And Positive »
Iran’s government on Saturday welcomed U.S. navy rescue of 13 of its nationals from pirates near the entrance to the Gulf as a positive...
Jan 7 2012 / No comment / Read More »Arab League Asks For Hamas Help With Syria; France Says Mission Unable To Do Job »
The Arab League chief on Friday asked the Damascus-based leader of the Palestinian group Hamas to ask Syria to work to halt violence, saying...
Jan 6 2012 / No comment / Read More »Syrian Opposition Figure Says Assad’s Regime Plotting A Massive Blast In Aleppo »
The Syrian regime is plotting for a massive blast in the Syrian city of Aleppo, just to terrorize the people, a Syrian activist and...
Jan 6 2012 / No comment / Read More »
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