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Boston bombing suspect wrote message in boat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts...
Boston bombing suspects had planned July 4 attack
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attacks on the Boston Marathon had origin...
Police clash with protesters after May Day rally
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Eight police officers were hurt and 18 protesters arrested in Seattle on Wednesday when a May Day rally t...
VIDEO: Afghanistan cargo plane crash caught on camera
KABUL (Reuters) - Seven crew members of a U.S.-run cargo plane were killed on Monday when their plane crashed shortly after t...
Obama renews vow to close Guantanamo detention camp
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying it was damaging to U.S. interests to keep holding prisoners in legal limbo at Guantanamo, Presi...
Campaigners call for ban on 'killer robots'
LONDON (Reuters) - Machines with the ability to attack targets without any human intervention must be banned before they are ...
Boston bombing suspect charged in hospital bed
BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors charged badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his hospita...
Police: Boston Marathon bombing suspect captured
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police captured a 19-year-old man on Friday night suspected of carrying out the Boston M...
Marathon bomb suspect eludes police, hunt shuts Boston down
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Black Hawk helicopters and heavily armed police descended on a Boston suburb Friday in a...
PHOTO: Bradley Cooper visits bombing victim in hospital
Bradley Cooper, in Boston this week filming a new movie, took some time on Thursday to visit a man injured in Monday's Bo...
Boston bombing suspect dead, police hunt second man
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing in a shootout and mounted house...
Police called to 'American Pie' stars home
"American Pie" star Eddie Kaye Thomas called police officers to his Los Angeles home on Wednesday after a female ho...
Boston bomb probe focuses on bags, pressure cooker
BOSTON (Reuters) - The investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing is focusing on a suspect or suspects believed to have car...
Boston Marathon bombs packed with gunpowder, shrapnel
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U.S. will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea: Kerry
SEOUL (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed as "unacceptable by any standard" weeks of bellicose warn...
U.S. to send missile defense to Guam over North Korea threat
By Jack Kim and Phil StewartSEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said it would soon send a missile defense system t...
North Korea to restart nuclear reactor in weapons bid
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea announced plans on Tuesday to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor that has been closed since 2...
Gaza rockets hit southern Israel town cited by Obama
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed on Thursday in a southern Israeli border town that U.S. Pr...
Obama arrives in Israel amid low expectations
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Israel on Wednesday without any new peace initiative to offer disillus...
Tension flares in Brooklyn after police kill teenage boy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mother of a teenage boy fatally shot by New York police called on Thursday for an end to violence an...
Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to ...
Bin Laden son-in-law to face conspiracy charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden faces arraignment on Friday in a federal court in New York, where he is ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dies from cancer
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leade...
Joan Rivers slammed over holocaust joke
TV personality Joan Rivers has come under fire for comments she made about Jews during a segment on her controversial style s...
Preserve CIA prisons as evidence, lawyers for 9/11 suspects ask
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Lawyers for five alleged 9/11 conspirators who claim they were tortured in s...
U.S. to lift ban on women in front-line combat jobs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will formally end its ban on women serving in front-line combat roles, officials sai...
Some foreign hostages said killed in Algeria assault
By Lamine ChikhiALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria said several hostages were killed on Thursday when its forces stormed a remote de...
Dozens held after Islamists attack Algerian gas field
By Lamine ChikhiALGIERS (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked a gas field in Algeria on Wednesday, claiming to have kidnapp...
Gun purchasers set new record in December
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of FBI background checks required for Americans buying guns set a record in December, as th...
Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. commander in Gulf War, dies at 78
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., the hard-charging U.S. Army general whose forces smashed the Iraqi army in the...
Benghazi attack inquiry harsh on State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya was grossly inadequate to deal with a September 11 att...
'Lincoln' leads Golden Globe nominations
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Civil War-era drama "Lincoln" led the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday with seven ...
Hamas-Israel ceasefire takes hold but mistrust runs deep
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold on Thursday after eight days of confl...
Gaza shakes, bus explodes in Tel Aviv as Clinton seeks truce
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday pursued a Gaza truce, with Israel and Hamas s...
Hearing for U.S. soldier accused of Afghan rampage set to begin
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. Army soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a drunken rampage in March faces the milita...
Pakistani protesters clash with police on Muslim "Day of Love"
By Aisha ChowdhryISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with police in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday as anger...
Unaware of pregnancy, soldier has baby in Afghanistan
LONDON (Reuters) - A British soldier who did not realize she was pregnant has given birth to a baby boy at the Camp Bastion f...
Obama vows to 'bring to justice' ambassador's killers
WASHINGTON/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to "bring to justice" the Islamist...
Yemeni protesters storm U.S. embassy in Sanaa
DUBAI (Reuters) - Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest at a film they co...
U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on thei...
Bomb strikes Damascus near U.N. and Army sites
By Hadeel Al ShalchiALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in central Damascus on Wednesday near several military building...
Alert at World Trade Center draws fire crews
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scores of firefighters rushed to 1 World Trade Center early on Wednesday for what turned out to be a pos...
U.S. nuclear bomb facility shut after security breach
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium has...
Background check applications for gun buys surge in Colorado
DENVER (Reuters) - The number of people in Colorado applying for background checks to purchase firearms has surged in the aft...
Charlie Sheen pledges $1 million to support military
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - His rants under control and his life seemingly on the mend, "Anger Management" actor Charli...
1991 L.A. police beating victim Rodney King found dead
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rodney King, the black man who came to symbolize racial tensions in the United States after his 1991 ...
Happy Security Cameras
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Syria in civil war, U.N. official says
By Louis Charbonneau and Dominic EvansUNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's 15-month uprising has grown into a full-s...
WWII Vets Honored at Airport
WhenWorld War II veterans arrived in Washington DC to visit the WWII Memorial the terminal was empty. After a gate attendant ...
Kitten Attack Fail
What goes around literally comes around when this kitten tries to sneak attack.
Obama calls treatment of Vietnam War veterans 'a disgrace'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called the treatment decades ago of returning Vietnam War veterans a "nati...
Obama: No more wars unless 'absolutely necessary'
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored veterans on Monday by noting "the light of a new day"...
Wounded U.S. war veterans find brotherhood in softball
COOPERSTOWN, New York (Reuters) - When Saul Bosquez, a 27-year-old U.S. Army veteran who lost part of his left leg in Iraq, s...
Would-be suicide bomber was CIA informant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The would-be suicide bomber in a plot by al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate was planted in the group by a...
Stress of war prompts soldiers to take Afghan dogs home
KABUL (Reuters) - Spot made the clandestine journey from the Afghan Taliban stronghold of Helmand to the capital Kabul, where...
Kent State survivors seek new probe of 1970 shootings
KENT, Ohio (Reuters) - Survivors of the shooting of 13 students by the Ohio National Guard during an anti-war demonstration a...
New York man convicted in subway suicide bomb plot
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury found a Bosnian-born U.S. citizen guilty on Tuesday of planning a coordinated suicide bom...
Dozens arrested during May Day protests across U.S.
NEW YORK/OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street protesters smashed windows in Seattle, were chased through New Yo...
Obama swoops into Afghanistan on bin Laden anniversary
BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death with a s...
Obama in Afghanistan on anniversary of bin Laden's death
KABUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement charting future relations wit...
Five arrested in U.S. plot to blow up bridge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting ...
Noah Wyle arrested at protest in Washington
(Reuters) - Actor Noah Wyle was arrested at a healthcare protest in Washington, D.C. on Monday, following in the footsteps of...
Vettel wins Bahrain Grand Prix, protesters kept away
MANAMA (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday while rage boiled beyo...
Surviving 'Doolittle Raiders' recount wartime bombing of Japan
DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) - Four of the last five survivors of a U.S. World War Two bombing mission over Japan reunited on Wedne...
Troops pose with maimed Afghan insurgent bodies
BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops are seen posing with the maimed bodies of suspected Afghan insurgents in photos p...
Would-be New York City suicide bombers detail plot
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two members of a plot to carry out suicide attacks on New York City subways said their third accused co-...
U.S. marks second victory over British in War of 1812
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A parade of naval vessels and square-rigged sailing ships made their way on Tuesday up the Mississipp...
Analysis: U.S. Civilian Courts Await Extradited Militants
By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Obama administration declared it wanted to put suspects involved in the Sept...
9/11 mastermind to stand trial at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four suspected co-conspirators were directe...
U.S. may accept less stringent controls for Taliban detainees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has signaled a willingness to accept less-stringent controls on former Taliba...
Annan Says Syria Accepts Peace Plan, Fighting Enters Lebanon
By Chris Buckley and Oliver HolmesBEIJING/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria has accepted a ceasefire and peace plan drawn up by U.N. a...
Afghan gun massacre families paid compensation
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have given cash compensation to the families of Afghans killed in a shooti...
Hospitalized Kony director suffered brief psychosis
(Reuters) - The director of a video calling for the arrest of fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony suffered from a brief psyc...
French gunmen dead as Toulouse siege ends
TOULOUSE (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-inspired gunman who killed seven people in France is dead after police stormed his apartment...
Harry Potter actor jailed for rioting in London
LONDON (Reuters) - Actor Jamie Waylett, who played Hogwarts bully Vincent Crabbe in six of the Harry Potter films, was jailed...
U.S. defense chief in Afghanistan as bombs kill 9
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Defence Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on We...
Documentary: KONY 2012
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Caviezal to take on Stallone, Schwarzenegger in 'The Tomb'
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone will face the ultimate foe in their new action movie "The Tomb" - Jesu...
Netanyahu tells Obama: No Israeli decision on Iran attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on a...
Occupied Elevator
Have you ever opened the elevator door on an awkward scene? We guarentee you it's not this awkward.
U.S. to offer legal backing for 'targeted killing'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Ameri...
Red Cross Tells Syria: Let Homs Aid Through
By Samia NakhoulBEIRUT (Reuters) - The Red Cross told Syria on Friday it was unacceptable that its aid convoy had been preven...
American in NYC bomb case indicted
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jose Pimentel, an American Muslim convert accused of building a pipe bomb, has been formally indicted by...
'Underwear bomber' sentenced to life in prison
DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Nigerian man to life in prison for trying to blow up a U.S. airli...
Egyptians incensed after 74 die in soccer tragedy
PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptians incensed by the deaths of 74 people in clashes at a soccer stadium staged protests on ...
U.S. plans to halt Afghan combat role early
KABUL (Reuters) - The United States appears to have taken Kabul by surprise by announcing plans to end its Afghan combat role...
U.S. commandos free two hostages in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued an American and a Dane after a shooto...
Marine pleads guilty, ending final Haditha trial
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Marine sergeant accused of leading a massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha pleaded guilt...
Guantanamo commander defends prison mail review
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The commander of the Guantanamo detention camp testified on Tuesday that it ...
Perry defends Marines accused of urinating on corpses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry, scrambling to keep his U.S. presidential bid alive, accused the Obama admin...
Taliban: Marine abuse tape won't hurt Afghan talks
KABUL (Reuters) - A video showing what appear to be American forces urinating on dead Taliban fighters prompted anger in Afgh...
Doomsday Clock a minute closer to midnight
(Reuters) - The symbolic Doomsday Clock calculated by a group of scientists was moved a minute closer to midnight on Tuesday,...
New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military pre...
Nick Cannon hospitalized with kidney failure
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon was hospitalized with "mild kidney failure" in Colorado ...
New York firebomb attacks hit mosque, Hindu site
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police are investigating as bias crimes four Molotov cocktail attacks on Sunday night including...
U.S. Probe Cites Mistakes in Deadly Air Strike
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. military investigation has found American and Afghan commandos wrongly concluded ther...
Jury finds man guilty of aiding al Qaeda
BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of supporting al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages a...
U.S. formally ends war in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military officially ended its war in Iraq on Thursday, packing up a military flag at a ceremony ...
U.S. formally ends war in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military officially ended its war in Iraq on Thursday, packing up a military flag at a ceremony ...
Time names 'The Protester' Person of the Year
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, "The Protester" was named Time magazi...
As U.S. leaves, Iraqi forces still under construction
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nearly nine years after the United States threw out Saddam Hussein and dissolved his feared security mach...
Egypt's Islamists claim most seats in run-off vote
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday it had won most seats in an opening round of run-offs in Egypt's s...
Blasts across Afghanistan target Shi'ites, 59 dead
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide attack killed dozens of Shi'ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine on Tuesday, and four others die...
Afghanistan's allies pledge to stay for long-haul
BONN (Reuters) - The West used an Afghanistan meeting on Monday to signal enduring support for Kabul as allied troops go home...
Biden: Pullout brings new relations with Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq opened a new phase in rela...
Pakistan warns NATO attack threatens Afghanistan peace bid
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan ratcheted up pressure on NATO on Monday over a cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani so...
Police arrest occupy LA protesters who blocked traffic
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight ...
Montgomerie replaces bullets with golf balls in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - Colin Montgomerie has helped transform soldiers' firing ranges into driving ranges on a trip to Afghanistan...
Egypt protesters battle on to end army rule
CAIRO (Reuters) - Street clashes flared in Cairo again Wednesday as protesters derided an agreement forged by Egypt's ruling ...
Egyptian police battle protesters, 33 dead
CAIRO (Reuters) - Cairo police fought protesters demanding an end to army rule for a third day on Monday and the death toll r...
NYC police say arrest 'lone wolf' in bomb plot
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police arrested a 27-year-old man they called a "lone wolf" militant on charges of pl...
Military better prepared for cyber warfare: general
(Reuters) - The U.S. military now has a legal framework to cover offensive operations in cyberspace, the commander of the U.S...
Evicted Wall St. protesters seek rebound with rally
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to rebound on Thursday with a march on the New York Stock Exchange to...
Did troops bring democracy? Iraqis have doubts
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sitting in a barber shop in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City slum, three friends agreed after a long and hard ...
Sixty-nine killed in Syria on Monday: activists
BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 69 people were killed in southern Syria on Monday, most of them in clashes between army deserters...
Cities target protest camps, standoff in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) - Police confronted an estimated 1,000 anti-corporate protesters in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday after...
Israel rushes airliner defenses as Libya leaks SAMs
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defenses on its airliners, a security official s...
Protesters vow to 'occupy' Rose Parade
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters hoping to commandeer a worldwide television audience to air their grievan...
Air Force chief questioned over war dead's remains
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief of the Air Force was questioned by lawmakers Thursday over revelations the military's main m...
Police confront Oakland protesters with tear gas
OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Police in riot gear clashed with protesters in Oakland on Thursday, firing tear gas to disperse de...
Haqqani network may be linked to Kabul suicide attack
KABUL (Reuters) - The Haqqani network, which Washington has blamed for a series of attacks in Afghanistan, may have been invo...
Hague court says in talks on Gaddafi son surrender
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himsel...
Cops sacked for protecting Paris Hilton
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Clash with police stirs Oakland economic protest
OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - More than 1,000 activists protesting economic inequality reclaimed a downtown Oakland plaza late o...
Police scuffle with protesters in Oakland march
OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Police and protesters scuffled in the streets of Oakland on Tuesday as more than 1,000 people marc...
U.S. dismantles last of powerful bomb class
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (REUTERS) -- The last of a powerful class of nuclear weapons introduced into the U.S. arsenal at the heigh...
Police arrest man who burned 100 cars
BERLIN (Reuters) - A man who set fire to more than 100 cars in Berlin, a wave of attacks blamed by some on political extremis...
Obama: U.S. will pull troops out of Iraq by year-end
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States will fulfill its pledge to pull troops out of ...
In death, Gaddafi still divides Libyans
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - After the anarchic drama of their capture and killing of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's new leaders argu...
Gaddafi killed in hometown, Libya eyes future
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Israeli soldier Shalit freed in mass prisoner swap
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returned home to a national outpouring of joy on Tuesday after five y...
No decision yet on future troop presence in Iraq
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Police seize weapons from Brad Pitt film
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Tear gas? Woof! It's Sausage the Athens riot dog
ATHENS (Reuters) - There he is, yelping with delight as the youths start hurling chunks of paving stones, barking his admonit...
Karzai says he let Afghans down on security
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Nobel Peace Prize honors African, Arab women
OSLO (Reuters) - Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday...
Libyans plan 'final' attack on Gaddafi hometown
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces have pledged to mount a final decisive attack on Muammar Gaddafi's ...
Riot-hit Britain plans to put prisoners to work
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Perry suggests U.S. military role in Mexico drug war
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Civilians flee Sirte battle, fighting hampers aid: U.N.
SIRTE (Reuters) - Civilians fled Sirte on Friday as interim government forces pounded the coastal city in an effort to dislod...
Exclusive: Concern grows over militant activity in Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to i...
Yemen says al Qaeda cleric Awlaki killed
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Pakistan says U.S. pressure on militants must end
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States must stop blaming Islamabad for regional instability, Pakistan's prime minister told ...
Council takes first step on Palestinian U.N. bid
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday took its first step on the Palestinian application to join ...
Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte seek truce
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NY police can shoot down a plane if needed
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Senator says 'all options on table' on Pakistan
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Palestinians to push U.N. bid despite Obama
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Tony Bennett apologizes for 9/11 comments
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Obama to meet Palestinian leader amid U.N. crisis
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After siege, questions hang over Kabul security
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Medal of Honor recipient believed he would die
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Jury selection begins for Christmas day bomber
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Twenty-hour Kabul siege shows Taliban strength
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Taliban attack across Kabul, target U.S. embassy
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Gunmen kill five on Pakistan school bus
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At bay, captured Libyan spy chief defiant
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Pro-Gaddafi forces kill 15 at Libya oil refinery
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Obama, Bush see raw emotions at 9/11 events
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama picked up where his predecessor George W. Bush left off in the war against Isla...
With grief, America marks 9/11
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Obama: U.S. stronger 10 years after 9/11
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States was stronger 10 years after the September 11...
Al Qaeda shadow of former self 10 years after 9/11
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Tony Blair: No regrets about befriending Gaddafi
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New York cracks down after 'credible' 9/11 threat
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Fugitive Gaddafi vows to stay in Libya
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Mubarak in court after officials called to testify
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Military raises alert level ahead of September 11
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Gaddafi tracked heading south: Libyan official
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Distant lives come together on 9/11's front lines
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Al Qaeda affiliate suspected in Delhi blast
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U.N. court jails Serbia's ex-army chief Perisic
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The U.N.'s Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal sentenced Serbia's former army chief, Momcilo Perisic, to 27 ...
Gaddafi defiant as world frees Libya funds
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Gaddafi said to be in desert town: Libyan military
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Syrian forces raid Hama, official resigns in protest
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General Petraeus hangs up uniform
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Suspected suicide bombing kills 10 in Pakistan
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Most American Muslims are satisfied Obama backers
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Gaddafi's foes advance on his hometown
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan forces converged on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte on Monday, hoping to seal their revolution...
Rebels send in special forces to hunt for Gaddafi
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan rebels said they were sending in special forces units in their hunt for fugitive strongman Muammar...
Libya rebels battle to root out Gaddafi diehards
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rebel forces began to purge Tripoli's streets of diehard gunmen still loyal to fugitive Muammar Gaddafi T...
Gaddafi nearly captured on Wednesday: report
PARIS (Reuters) - Libyan commandos fighting Muammar Gaddafi came close to capturing the toppled leader on Wednesday when they...
Thirty Gaddafi fighters found dead at Tripoli camp
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - More than 30 men believed to be fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have been killed at a military encampme...
Ex-IAEA official warns of Libya 'dirty bomb'
VIENNA (Reuters) - A research center near Tripoli stocks uranium and other material that could be used to make a nuclear &quo...
Gaddafi flees Tripoli HQ ransacked by rebels
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A beleaguered Muammar Gaddafi vowed on Wednesday to fight on to death or victory after jubilant rebels fo...
Gaddafi to 'fight to end' as rebels seize HQ
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Triumphant rebels seized Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli on Tuesday after a fierce battle with a lo...
Obama urges Gaddafi loyalists lay down arms
CHILMARK, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Monday for Muammar Gaddafi to end the bloodshed in Libya...
Gaddafi son rallies loyalists for Tripoli fightback
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A son of Muammar Gaddafi, previously reported captured, made a surprise appearance with jubilant supporte...
Gaddafi hunted as loyalists fight on in Tripoli
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi was a hunted man on Monday as loyal remnants of his forces made last-ditch stands in the ...
Israel and Hamas agree Gaza truce: officials
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, have agreed to a ceasefire after five da...
Analysis: Gaddafi collapse will embolden Arab rebels
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The implosion of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year-old rule will put a new spring in the step of the...
Rebels hold most of Tripoli, Gaddafi out of sight
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan government tanks and snipers put up scattered, last-ditch resistance in Tripoli on Monday after re...
Rebels enter Tripoli, crowds celebrate in streets
AL-MAYA/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rebel fighters streamed into Tripoli as Muammar Gaddafi's forces collapsed and crowds took to the...
Taliban attack on British office in Kabul kills 9
KABUL (Reuters) - Five Taliban attackers laid siege to a British cultural center in the Afghan capital Friday, killing at lea...
Syrian forces kill six despite Assad pledge
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead six protesters on Friday despite President Bashar al-Assad's pledge that his milita...
Libyan rebels seize western oil refinery
ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels took control of an oil refinery in the western town of Zawiyah and blocked the main ...
Blast kills 20, wounds 12 in Afghanistan's Herat
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside blast killed 20 people and wounded at least 12 traveling in two minibuses in the we...
Rebels launch push to consolidate Tripoli siege
ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels launched an assault on an oil refinery on Wednesday to drive the last remaining troo...
Witness: A failed coup and difficult start for Russia
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Obama: 'Lone wolf terrorist' biggest U.S. threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decade after the 9/11 attacks, a "lone wolf terrorist" like the shooter in Norway now pres...
Gaddafi forces fire Scud missile: U.S. official
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fired a Scud missile for the first time in the country's civil wa...
Gaddafi defiant as rebels poised to strangle capital
ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi urged Libyans Monday to free the country from "traitors," as rebels in t...
British police out in force to deter riots
LONDON (Reuters) - British police prepared to flood the streets Friday to ensure weekend drinking does not reignite the rioti...
British PM Cameron promises crackdown on rioters
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron, grappling with what could prove a defining crisis of his premiership, told p...
What happened on night of deadly helicopter crash?
KABUL (Reuters) - Late last Friday night, special forces troops from the NATO-led coalition launched an operation to capture ...
North Korea drill draws tit-for-tat South firing
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea test fired artillery shells into waters near a disputed border on Wednesday, provoking a South ...
British cities hit by looting, London quiet
LONDON (Reuters) - Youths fought running battles with police in English cities and towns overnight but London, where thousand...
Obama pays respects, questions remain in Afghan crash
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware (Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored 30 U.S. soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Af...
Assad: Syria won't stop fight against 'terrorists'
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday his forces would continue to pursue "terrorist groups...
Libyan TV says children killed in NATO strike
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Libyan state media said on Tuesday dozens of civilians had been killed in a NATO strike on a village abou...
London reels from riots, Cameron pledges crackdown
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday police will crack down hard to quell a wave of riotin...
Court allows torture lawsuit against Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two American men can go ahead with a civil lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a...
UK government condemns London rioters as criminals
LONDON (Reuters) - British government officials branded rioters who fought police, looted shops and set fire to buildings at ...
Troops comb helicopter crash site in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - Foreign troops in Afghanistan do not yet know what caused a deadly helicopter crash two days ago and on Mon...
Libya denies report Gaddafi's son killed by NATO
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The government of Muammar Gaddafi denied a rebel report on Friday that a NATO air strike ...
NATO soldiers killed as Afghan violence flares
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A NATO service member was killed in an apparent "rogue" shooting by a man dressed a...
U.S. troops in Iraq will need immunity: U.S. chief
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Any agreement for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal would requi...
Libyan rebels say military chief killed
BENGHAZI/NALUT, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's rebels said their military commander was shot dead in an incident that remained shr...
Police say arrest of soldier foiled 'terror plot'
KILLEEN, Texas (Reuters) - An Army soldier arrested with suspected bomb-making materials near Fort Hood, Texas, was hatching ...
U.S. soldier arrested with bomb-making materials
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A U.S. Army soldier was arrested after police found him in a motel room near Fort Hood, Texas, with p...

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