Obama rues ‘intelligence failure’
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President Barack Obama says the US failed to “connect and understand” intelligence it had prior to the failed Christmas Day airline bomb attack. Read more
Fed emergency loans to banks up slightly (AP)
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Play Video Economy Video:NY Fed to AIG: Withhold Swap Info CNBC Play Video Economy Video:Home Prices May Continue To Plummet In 2010 CBS4 Miami Related Quotes Symbol Price Change FNM 1.18 +0.08 FRE 1.50 +0.12 ^GSPC 1,141.69 +4.55 By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Martin Crutsinger, Ap Economics Writer – 11 mins ago WASHINGTON – Banks borrowed [...]
EU nations divided on use of airport body scanners (AP)
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BRUSSELS – European nations were sharply divided Thursday over the need to install full-body scanners at European airports, with some EU members playing down the need for beefed-up security measures. But the EU indicated it may force nations to comply. After meeting in Brussels on Thursday, EU aviation security experts released a statement saying the [...]
Britain grinds to a standstill with two more weeks of chaos to come
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MUCH of Britain ground to a standstill yesterday in freezing conditions as forecasters gave warning that the country should brace itself for six more days of snow. Read more
Britain faces coldest night of winter as five die in Big Freeze and temperatures plummet to -20C
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Today’s headlines Most Read Britain faces coldest night of winter as five die in Big Freeze and temperatures plummet to -20C ‘The forgotten village’: Families snowed in for three weeks as council gritters leave hamlet stranded What WAS she thinking? Woman ignores `thin ice’ warning sign as she leads daughter across frozen pond Hundreds stranded [...]
Top 10 News Stories of '00s
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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
World's Worst Earthquakes
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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 [...]
Guitar music from Botswana
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My friend Jim Nelson, who is no slouch on the guitar himself, posted these videos on Facebook. Particularly amazing considering strings are obviously missing: Read more
Al Qaeda ‘Recruited Bomb Plotter In London’
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12:55pm UK, Thursday January 07, 2010 Tim Marshall, in Sana’a, Yemen A Nigerian man charged with attempted murder over the alleged Christmas Day plot was recruited by al Qaeda in London, according [...]
McElderry ‘wants Leona, Beyoncé hitmakers’
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WENN Joe McElderry has revealed that he is eager to work with Ryan Tedder on his debut album. The X Factor winner praised the OneRepublic star, who wrote ‘Bleeding Love’ for Leona Lewis and ‘Halo’ for Beyoncé. “I would love Simon [Cowell] to put me with Ryan Tedder for my album’s ballads because he is [...]
Al-Qaida No. 3 says CIA attack was revenge killing
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A top al-Qaida leader Wednesday praised the Dec. 30 attack on a CIA outpost in Afghanistan and said it was to avenge the deaths of a Pakistani Taliban leader and two al-Qaida figures. Read more
Terrorists want to attack US interests at sea
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Al Qaeda will soon return to attacking America interests at sea, a prominent contributor on a jihadist forum posted Monday. The message, from a writer called Abu Raghd on the Al-Falluja forum, says that the terrorist organization will take up the policy of “a blow for a blow and a raid for a [...]
Senate Republicans have their next leader
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Republican Senators in Sacramento have chosen their next leader — Sen. Robert Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga (San Bernardino County). Dutton said he has the unanimous backing of his caucus and will take the… Read more
Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
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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 [...]
U.N. envoy Eide warns U.S., allies not to ignore civilian goals in Afghanistan
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UNITED NATIONS — The top U.N. envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday delivered a gloomy assessment of the U.S.-led effort to restore stability in the country and warned “we will fail” if the strategy there relies too heavily on military force. Read more
In Pakistani port city of Karachi, a new resolve to turn against Taliban
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KARACHI, PAKISTAN — The bearded clerics who run Jamia Binoria, a large seminary in a shabby industrial zone, might seem to have much in common with the Taliban. They come from the same Deobandi strain of Islam, which rejects Western values and seeks to create a pure Islamic state. They require students to memorize the [...]
Venezuela’s Chávez Takes a Mighty Swing at Golf
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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 [...]
France to set up judicial unit to investigate genocide, war crimes
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PARIS — The French government announced Wednesday that it will set up a special judicial unit to investigate and bring charges against people accused of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity in France or abroad. Read more
Former bin Laden bodyguard is among ex-guerrillas in Yemen
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SANAA, YEMEN — When he served in the Afghan mountains as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, Nasser al-Bahri said, he was known as “The Killer.” Today, Bahri is a business consultant in Yemen who favors Western-style pinstriped shirts, crisp slacks and black loafers. But his ideas are still radical: Ask him whether jihadists should kill Americans [...]