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White House says bin Laden was unarmed when killed

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs burst into his room and shot him to death, the White House said Tuesday, a change in the official account that raised questions about whether the U.S. ever planned to capture the terrorist leader alive.The Obama administration, meanwhile, was still debating whether to release gruesome images of bin Laden’s corpse, balancing efforts to d

World News May 4, 2011

White House says bin Laden was unarmed when killed

Osama bin Laden’s neighbors noticed unusual goings-on

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) ― When a woman involved in a polio vaccine drive turned up at Osama bin Laden’s hideaway, she remarked to the men behind the high walls about the expensive SUVs parked inside. The men took the vaccine, apparently to administer to the 23 children at the compound, and told her to go away.The terror chief and his family kept well hidden behind thick walls in this northwester

World News May 4, 2011

Angry Libyans burn U.K., Italy embassies

No casualties reported; tensions high between Libya regime and Western powersTRIPOLI (AP) ― Angry mobs attacked Western embassies and a U.N. office in Tripoli Sunday after NATO bombed Moammar Gadhafi’s family compound in an attack officials said killed the leader’s second youngest son and three grandchildren, ages six months to two years.Russia said the Western alliance exceeded its U.N. mandate o

World News May 2, 2011

Angry Libyans burn U.K., Italy embassies

Criticism up on Japan P.M.’s handling of nuke crisis

TOKYO (AP) ― Criticism of the Japanese government’s handling of the crisis at a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant increased Saturday, with a new poll indicating three-quarters of the people disapprove and a key adviser quitting in protest.A Kyodo News service poll released Saturday showed that Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s support ratings were plunging.The poll reported that 76 percent of the res

World News May 1, 2011

Microsoft Windows sales slip

World Business April 29, 2011

U.S. economic growth slows, inflation surges

World Business April 29, 2011

Gold for Chan, German pair at worlds

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Canada’s Patrick Chan claimed his first world title as German pair Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy took their third gold on a record-breaking day at the world figure skating championships on Thursday.The 20-year-old Chan finally stood on top of the podium after being runner-up for the past two years landing two quadruple jumps on his way to world records in the free skate and ov

More Sports April 29, 2011

K.J. Choi opens Zurich Classic with 68s

AVONDALE, Louisiana (AP) ― Australia’s Matt Jones chipped in from 57 feet on his final hole for a 6-under 66 and a share of the first-round lead with Bubba Watson on Thursday in the Zurich Classic.Watson, the winner at Torrey Pines in late January, two-putted from 32 feet for eagle on the par-5 11th and had six birdies and two bogeys at TPC Louisiana.He entered the tournament as a favor to his mot

Golf April 29, 2011

Grace Park, Song-hee Kim lead Avnet Classic

MOBILE, Alabama (AP) ― Grace Park and Song-Hee Kim shot 5-under 67s in windy conditions Thursday to share the first-round lead in the Avnet LPGA Classic, the tour’s only event in a six-week stretch.Park eagled the par-5 13th and had had five birdies and two bogeys on The Crossings course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail’s Magnolia Grove complex. She won the last of her six LPGA Tour titles in

Golf April 29, 2011

Grace Park, Song-hee Kim lead Avnet Classic

Baathists quit over Syria’s crackdown

World News April 28, 2011

Violent storms smack Southern U.S., kill at least 85

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (AP) -- Fierce storms obliterated large swathsof land from Mississippi to Georgia, wiping out homes and businesses, causing a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even forcing the evacuation of a National Weather Service office.The death toll was staggering _ at least 85 people killed in five states, including 61 in Alabama alone, a number that was likely to increas

World News April 28, 2011

Obama releases birth document, decries silliness

WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama has produced his detailed birth certificate from Hawaii, hoping to clamp off a resurrection of claims he was born outside the United States and declaring the country did not have the “time for this kind of silliness.”The timing of Obama’s nationally televised statement and release of the document coincided with persistent charges from potential Republican p

World News April 28, 2011

Obama releases birth document, decries silliness

Hamas, Fatah reach unity deal

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ― Rival Palestinian groups said they reached an agreement Wednesday on reuniting their governments in the West Bank and Gaza after years of bitter infighting that weakened them politically and caused the deaths of hundreds in violent clashes and crackdowns since.Even as the tentative agreement revived hopes among Palestinians that they might be able to form a unified fro

World News April 28, 2011

NATO hit on headquarters squeezes Gadhafi

Libyan spokesman denounces bombing as failed assassination attemptTRIPOLI (AP) ― The latest NATO airstrike on Moammar Gadhafi’s compound that reduced parts of it to a smoldering ruin steps up pressure on the increasingly embattled Libyan leader as he struggles to hold onto the western half of the country.A Libyan government spokesman denounced Monday’s bombing as a failed assassination attempt, sa

World News April 26, 2011

At least 500 dead in Nigeria election riots

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) ― At least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria’s presidential election, a civil rights group said Sunday, as volatile state gubernatorial elections loom this week.Meanwhile, police in the northern state of Bauchi said at least 11 recent college graduates who helped run polling stations as part of the country’s national youth service corps have been kille

World News April 25, 2011

At least 500 dead in Nigeria election riots

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