Terrorism

Pro-Government Source Says Brega “Cleared of “Armed Gangs

Libyan state television Sunday reported a regime army source claiming that the Libyan armed forces have cleared “armed gangs” from the key oil town of Brega in the east of the capital, Tripoli.  read more »

The Iraq Archive: The Strands of a War

A huge trove of secret field reports from the battlegrounds of Iraq sheds new light on the war, including such fraught subjects as civilian deaths, detainee abuse and the involvement of Iran.  read more »

Afghanistan's Election: A Look at the Diversity of Headlines

Afghans have voted in a key parliamentary election. There are a number of articles from various sources around the globe. Here is a list of some of the headlines and what agency they come from:  read more »

Netherlands releases Yemen flight suspects

Neither of the two men, reportedly US residents, was on any watch lists.  read more »

Vendors Who Alerted Police Called Heroes

Even in Times Square, where little seems unusual, the Nissan Pathfinder parked just off Broadway on the south side of 45th Street — engine running, hazard lights flashing, driver nowhere to be found  read more »

The model and the blood diamond

THE curious tale of the diamond that arrived in the night has returned to haunt supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is entangled in a web of allegations against Charles Taylor, the former Liberian presiden  read more »

Obama tells Karzai to clean up corruption

United States president Barack Obama has urged Afghan president Hamid Karzai to clean up corruption and rallied troops to defeat the Taliban during a surprise visit to Afghanistan.  read more »

Jihad Jane

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International Travel

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Rwanda: Govt Blames Sudan for Darfur Attacks

Kigali — Rwanda has accused the Khartoum government of being behind the ambush in which three RDF peacekeepers were killed and two injured at Saraf Umra in Darfur on Friday.  read more »

Alert level raised on North Korea

South Korean and US troops have gone on higher alert after North Korea announced it is scrapping the armistice in force on the peninsula.  read more »

Pentagon exploring robot killers that can fire on their own

WASHINGTON — The unmanned bombers that frequently cause unintended civilian casualties in Pakistan are a step toward an even more lethal generation of robotic hunters-killers that operate with limit  read more »

Obama speaks of 'reaching out' to Taliban

The US president admits that the 'anti-terror' operations in Afghanistan will not lead to victory, urging dialogue with insurgents as a cure.  read more »

Anthropologist's war death reverberates

In a hostile corner of southern Afghanistan, an American platoon fanned out around a market, forming a protective circle around a petite woman with a notebook.  read more »

Bush's Farewell Address

Fellow citizens: For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your president. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence – a time set apart.  read more »

Mashaal calls IDF operation in Gaza 'another holocaust'

The IDF operation in Gaza has killed the last chance for settlement and negotiations with Israel, Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told Al-Jazeera on Saturday.  read more »

Iraqi journalist insults, attacks Bush

A surprise visit by US President George Bush to Iraq has been overshadowed by an incident in which an Iraqi journalist insulted and hurled shoes at him during a news conference.  read more »

Nearly 80 killed, foreigners taken hostage in Mumbai attacks

Nearly 80 people have been killed in a series of coordinated attacks across India's commercial capital Mumbai, as gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades hit two luxury hotels and took foreign g  read more »

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