Monday, September 10, 2012

Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen killed in airstrike

Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen killed in airstrike


Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen killed in airstrike

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:43 PM PDT

An airstrike killed al-Qaida's No. 2 leader in Yemen along with six others traveling with him in one car on Monday, U.S. and Yemeni officials said, a major breakthrough for U.S.-backed efforts to crip...


Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri confirms death of Abu Yahya al-Libi

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:25 PM PDT

Al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri confirmed in a video recording the death of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a veteran militant said to have been a leader of the group's operations, and who had survived previou...


US police release video of Wisconsin gurudwara gunman

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:25 PM PDT

A white supremacist who killed a half-dozen people at a Sikh temple in the U.S. last month chased down the first police officer on the scene, pumping round after round into him as he lay wounded behin...


To move on from 9/11, some scale back

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:25 PM PDT

The moments of silence. The musical interludes. The honour guards of policemen and firefighters, colleagues of those who died rescuing others on September 11, 2001. And the reading of names, whether t...


US, Afghans locked in dispute over Bagram prison detainees

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:15 PM PDT

President Hamid Karzai welcomed Monday's handover of the main American-run prison to Afghan forces as a victory for Afghan sovereignty, though he and U.S. officials remain locked in a dispute over the...


Debate surrounds annual $60 mn cost of 9/11 memorial

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 07:39 PM PDT

A debate over balancing the need to honour the memory of September 11 with the enormous costs of running a memorial and museum at ground zero has been reawakened on the eve of the attacks' 11th annive...


Panetta complains Navy SEAL book not vetted by Pentagon

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 07:23 PM PDT

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta criticized a former Navy SEAL for writing a book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, complaining the author never bothered to run it by the Pentagon before ...

Agreement reached for New York's 9/11 museum's completion

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:48 PM PDT

An agreement that paves the way for the completion of the Sept. 11 museum at ground zero was reached on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the terror attacks.


Mali Islamists amputate four suspected robbers

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:39 AM PDT

Islamists from an Al-Qaeda offshoot on Monday chopped a hand and a foot off four suspected robbers in the northern Malian city of Gao, witnesses told AFP.


Key Al Qaeda leader killed in airstrike in Yemen

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:07 AM PDT

An airstrike has killed Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader in Yemen along with five others traveling with him in one car, a Yemeni official said today.


Suicide attack kills 21 at northern Afghanistan

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:15 AM PDT

A suicide bomber tore through a crowd of Afghan demonstrators on Monday, killing 21 people in the northern city of Kunduz, a hospital doctor said, amid fears that the toll could rise further.


Japan Finance Services Minister dead: reports

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:40 AM PDT

Japan's financial services minister was found dead at his home on Monday in what police believe was a possible suicide, media said.


Car bomb kills 10 in northwest Pakistan: Officials

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:12 AM PDT

A car bomb exploded at a market in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 45, officials said.


Fugitive Iraq VP rejects murder conviction, sentence

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:53 AM PDT

Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi Monday rejected his murder conviction and death sentence and ruled out returning home until he is guaranteed "security and a fair trial". "While reco...


Teen sends used camera into space to take Earth pics

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:54 AM PDT

While NASA might spend millions to take snaps of the Earth, a teenager in the UK has captured stunning images of the planet by floating a second-hand camera worth 30 pounds into space using a balloon.


Taliban pose as 'attractive women' on Facebook for spying

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:46 AM PDT

Taliban insurgents are posing as "attractive women" on Facebook to befriend coalition soldiers for gathering sensitive intelligence about operations in Afghanistan, an Australian government report has...


Afghans 'take control' of US prison

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:36 AM PDT

Afghanistan said on Monday it had taken control of a controversial prison set up by US troops, but is yet to iron out disagreements over the fate of hundreds of inmates. A move hailed by Kabul as a...


China earthquake survivors await shelter, expect rain

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:54 PM PDT

Survivors of multiple earthquakes in south-western China waited for shelter and other supplies on Monday amid forecasts of heavy rains that are likely to hinder ongoing search efforts.


Taliban threaten to kill Prince Harry

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:06 PM PDT

The Taliban said Monday it was determined to kill Britain's Prince Harry, serving in Afghanistan four years after his previous deployment was cut short over security concerns. A militia spokesman s...


Anniversary of 9/11 marked under cloud of health problems, funding fights

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:51 PM PDT

Eleven years after the September 11, 2001, attacks, New Yorkers will mark the anniversary on Tuesday against a backdrop of health concerns for emergency workers and a feud over financing that has stop...

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