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SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni forces surrounded a suspected al Qaeda regional leader near the capital on Wednesday and captured three militants wounded in a raid, security sources said. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is “not patient” and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday, as a grand jury indicted the Nigerian man for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day. Read more
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Cabinet ministers have been lining up behind Gordon Brown after two former ministers called for a secret ballot on his leadership. Read more
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AP – An investor looks at the share index at a bank in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. Asian … Slideshow:Stock Markets Play Video Wall Street Video:Buffett’s Right on Kraft TheStreet.com Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 10,582.22 +10.20 ^GSPC 1,138.27 +1.75 ^IXIC 2,303.39 -5.32 By PAN PYLAS, AP Business Writer Pan Pylas, Ap Business Writer [...]
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – A failed airport security test ended up with a Slovak man unwittingly carrying hidden explosives in his luggage on a flight to Dublin, Slovak officials admitted Wednesday — a mistake that enraged Irish authorities and shocked aviation experts worldwide. While the Slovaks blamed the incident on “a silly and unprofessional mistake,” Irish [...]
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YOU might think the current weather conditions are almost Siberian — and you’d be right. Read more
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Experts warned that Britain’s economic output could be hit by as much as £14.5 billion over the next three weeks if the bad weather continues and millions are stopped from reaching their workplaces. Read more
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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Keith Olbermann responded to the top part of this post: …that the “percolating…inflammatory innuendo” originated with the former White House correspondent for Newsweek, and his sources within the Obama Administration, and was presented in the full context of the possibilities that a) the intel failure was an honest mistake, b) it was part of [...]
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9:50am UK, Wednesday January 06, 2010 James Jordan, Sky News Online A high-tech trimaran used by anti-whaling activists to try to halt Japanese hunters in the Antarctic has been sliced in two [...]
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WENN Stephanie Beacham and Sisqo have spoken of their encounters with the late King of Pop Michael Jackson. As Stephanie talked about training in mime in Paris, Sisqo said: “I want to hear about that. The reason I’m interested is because Michael [Jackson] studied it.” Stephanie added: “I only met Michael once and I thought [...]
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President Barack Obama asserted on Tuesday that the U.S. government had enough information to foil the attempted bombing on a Christmas Day airline flight but intelligence agencies “failed to connect the dots.” Obama called that unacceptable and said, “I will not tolerate it.” The accused attacker, a Nigerian man who claimed ties to al-Qaida, was [...]
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The Dec. 30 suicide bombing on a CIA base in Afghanistan was carried out by an al-Qaeda double agent from Jordan, NBC News reported Monday. Western intelligence officials said Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian doctor and al-Qaeda sympathizer from the same Jordanian hometown of militant Islamist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was responsible for [...]
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As we dig through the post-holiday rubble, we’re still wondering why the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is investigating Rep. F. Pete Stark, D-Fremont. No word in that cryptic statement… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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SANAA, YEMEN — As the United States ramps up its counterterrorism role here, senior Yemeni officials are publicly playing down the partnership, fearing that the government could pay a heavy political price for aligning with the United States and appearing too weak to control al-Qaeda on its own. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]