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Baghdad car bomb kills 13, raises death toll to 70
Iraqi officials say a car bomb in another Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people. The blast pushed the day's death toll from a deadly wave of bombings and shooting attacks across Iraq to 70. The officials say the latest blast struck on Monday afternoon in a busy market ...
Report: 23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria
Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic opposition-held town near the Lebanese border Monday, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, state-media reported. An activist group said at least 23 elite fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group fighting alongside regime troops have been killed in the clashes. The Britain-based Syrian ...
Spokesman for Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania
The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to Mauritanian authorities on the border, an intelligence official briefed on the matter confirmed on Monday. Sanda Ould Boumana, the Timbuktu-based spokesman for Ansar Dine, is being ...
Suspected US drone kills 2 in Yemen
Yemeni security and military officials say a suspected U.S. drone has killed two militants in a town in the center of the country. The officials said the Monday attack targeted the two men as they were riding a motorbike outside Radda in Bayda province. The officials said the two men ...
Correction: Tunisia-Salafi Crackdown story
In a May 15 story about the Tunisian government taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups ahead of this past weekend's conference by the group known as Ansar al-Shariah, The Associated Press reported erroneously that about 40,000 people attended the group's conference last year. About 4,000 people ...
Suicide bomber kills 14 at Afghan province council
A suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing the council chief and at least 13 others, authorities said. The Taliban insurgency quickly claimed responsibility. Seeking to weaken the Afghan government, Taliban insurgents have been carrying out attacks and assassinations intended to intimidate both ...
AP CEO calls records seizure 'unconstitutional'
The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly. Gary Pruitt on Sunday called the Justice Department's actions "unconstitutional" and said the AP hasn't ...
Minnesota news in brief at 7:58 p.m. CDT
Severe storms rumble across E Minn., W Wis. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Skies turned dark and the rain came down in torrents as severe storms rumbled across eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The storms sparked numerous severe thunderstorm warnings and some tornado warnings as they advanced from south to north Sunday, ...
Monday, May 27
Today is Monday, May 27, the 147th day of 2013. There are 218 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1647 - The first recorded American execution of a "witch" takes place in Salem, Massachusetts. 1896 - A tornado strikes St. Louis and East St. Louis, ...
AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was ...
US Somalis reaction to al-Shabab sentences mixed
Wide-ranging sentences handed down in the yearslong federal investigation into recruiting and financing for the al-Qaida linked terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia have kindled a mix of outrage, confusion and relief among members of Minnesota's large Somali community. Some say the 10- and 20-year prison sentences for two Minnesota women ...
Somali reaction to al-Shabab sentences mixed
Wide-ranging sentences handed down in the yearslong federal investigation into recruiting and financing for the terrorist group al-Shabab have kindled a mix of outrage, confusion and relief among members of Minnesota's large Somali community. Some say the 10- and 20-year prison sentences for two Minnesota women who sent money to ...
NY 'frisk' judge calls criticism 'below-the-belt'
The federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department has no doubt where she stands with the government. "I know I'm not their favorite judge," U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin said during an Associated Press interview Friday. It was another ...
Tunisia security blocks salafi conference, 1 dead
Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country, prompting clashes with angry youths that resulted in one death. Security checkpoints were in place and patrols conducted throughout the ...
Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan, India's archrival, an aide said. The comments follow a weekend report by the Times of India that said Afghanistan's ambassador to India had said the ...
A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute. Why were a diplomatic outpost and the visiting U.S. ambassador left so poorly protected? Should ...
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