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Diary: Bin Laden eyed new targets, big body count

Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to hit the U.S. while he was deep in hiding and his terror organization was becoming battered and fragmented, officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week's raid.Strike smaller cities, bin Laden suggested. Target trains as well as planes. Above all, kill as many Americans as possible in a single attack

May 12, 2011

Diary: Bin Laden eyed new targets, big body count

US defends frisking of baby at airport

Federal officials are defending screeners at the Kansas City airport after a photo of them frisking a baby got worldwide attention when a pastor posted it on Twitter.Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nick Kimball says the screeners were justified in doing the pat-down Saturday when the stroller set off an alert for possible traces of explosives. Photo captured from a twitterThe Rev.

May 12, 2011

Syrian military tightens grip in areas of unrest

BEIRUT (AP) ― Tanks and troops rolled into southern villages near the heart of Syria’s anti-government uprising Tuesday, while officials in Washington said the U.S. administration is edging closer to calling for an end to the Assad family’s long rule after its violent suppression of the protests.The Syrian military has been sealing off various areas and conducting house-to-house raids in search of

May 11, 2011

Al-Qaida likely to elevate No. 2 or name no one

Analysts say choice depends on how the organization views it’s goal in post-bin Laden ageBAGHDAD (AP) ― A week after the death of Osama bin Laden, his longtime deputy is considered the front-runner to succeed the iconic al-Qaida founder. But uprisings in the Middle East and changing dynamics within the group could point to another scenario: a decision not to appoint anyone at all to replace the wo

May 11, 2011

Al-Qaida likely to elevate No. 2 or name no one

All roads lead from Rome over quake prophecy

(MCT)ROME (AFP) - Rome had an empty feeling on Wednesday with some 20 percent of its somewhat superstitious residents failing to show up for work or going to school because of a prophecy predicting a devastating earthquake."Twenty percent of Romans didn't go to work today. On the other hand hotels and agritourism facilities have had a boom in bookings," said Primo Mastrantoni, head of the Associat

May 11, 2011

All roads lead from Rome over quake prophecy

Presbyterian Church to ordain gays as ministers

May 11, 2011

U.S., China spar on rights, soften tone on economy

May 10, 2011

Al-Qaida in Iraq pledges support for al-Zawahiri

BAGHDAD (AP) ― Al-Qaida’s front group in Iraq reaffirmed its support Monday for the terror network’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a week after U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden.Al-Qaida has not yet announced a successor and there is some uncertainty about whether al-Zawahri will indeed take over for bin Laden.In a statement posted on an insurgent website Monday, the Islamic State of I

May 10, 2011

Al-Qaida in Iraq pledges support for al-Zawahiri

Pakistan rejects accusations over bin Laden

May 10, 2011

Schwarzenegger, Shriver announce separation

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, announced Monday that they are separating.The statement, issued by a spokesman for Schwarzenegger, said the two were working on the future of their relationship while living apart and would continue to parent their four children together.``This has been a time of great personal and professional

May 10, 2011

Schwarzenegger, Shriver announce separation

Five headless bodies found in north Mexico

Five decapitated bodies were found Monday outside a school near the northern Mexican city of Durango, where soldiers have now unearthed 168 bodies in a month-long search of hidden graves.Authorities found the five bodies lying naked, with their heads nearby, in the small town of Pueblo Nuevo, adjacent to Durango, said the state prosecutor's office in a statement, without giving further details.Ten

May 10, 2011

Five headless bodies found in north Mexico

Obama: Bin Laden had support network

U.S. urges Pakistan to investigate helperWASHINGTON (AP) ― Osama bin Laden benefited from “some sort of support network” inside Pakistan, President Barack Obama said in a Sunday broadcast interview, but he added it is not clear whether government officials knew the terrorist leader was living inside their country when U.S. commandos killed him in a raid last weekend.“We don’t know whether there mi

May 9, 2011

Church burning deepens tumult of Egypt’s post-revolution transition

Inter-faith violence kills 12 and injures more than 100CAIRO (AP) ― Relations between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians degenerated to a new low Sunday after riots overnight left 12 people dead and a church burned, adding to the disorder of the country’s post-revolution transition to democracy.The attack on the church was the latest sign of assertiveness by an extreme, ultraconservative movement of M

May 9, 2011

Obama: bin Laden had support network

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Osama bin Laden benefitted from ``some sort of support network'' inside Pakistan, President Barack Obama said in a Sunday broadcast interview, but he added it is not clear whether government officials knew the terrorist leader was living inside their country when U.S. commandos killed him in a raid last weekend.``We don't know whether there might have been some people inside of

May 9, 2011

U.S. has new leverage, but how will Pakistan respond?

May 8, 2011

Singapore opposition makes breakthrough

SINGAPORE (AP) ― Singapore’s long-time ruling party won an overwhelming parliamentary majority in elections in the Southeast Asian city-state, but the opposition made historic gains after mounting its biggest challenge since independence in 1965, according to returns released early Sunday.The ruling People’s Action Party won 81 of the 87 parliament seats as it captured 60 percent of the 2 million

May 8, 2011

Syrian forces launch raid on hotbed city

Residents form human chains in desperate bid to halt military operationDAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syrian forces rained gunfire on Banias Saturday as they pushed ahead with an assault on the restive port, killing six people, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents called for elections to end the crisis.Activists said dozens of tanks and armored vehicles entered Banias, on the Mediterranean c

May 8, 2011

Trial request for Berlusconi friends in sex case

ROME (AFP) - Prosecutors on Friday requested a trial for three of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's friends on pimping charges linked to the Italian leader's own trial for having sex with an underage prostitute.The request "was sent today to the judge" on the prostitution charges, the main prosecutor's office in Milan said in a statement.The charges relate to alleged crimes committed between 2009

May 8, 2011

Bin Laden directed Qaeda from Pakistan compound

May 8, 2011

Obama to bin Laden assault team: 'Job well done'

FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky (AP) – Brimming with pride, President Barack Obama on Friday met and honored the U.S. commandos he sent after terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, saluting them on behalf of America and the world and capping an extraordinary week for the country. "Job well done," the president declared.Obama addressed roughly 2,000 troops after meeting privately with the full assault team — A

May 7, 2011