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5/16/2013

Kabul car bomb kills 2 NATO troops, 4 contractors

Posted 3:48 AM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO says two of its service members and four civilian contractors were killed when a suicide car bomber struck a convoy belonging to the military alliance in the Afghan capital.At least two children also died in Thursday's powerful explosion in eastern (More)

5/15/2013

Syrian Internet down for 2nd time in 2 weeks

Posted 3:41 AM 5/15/2013 by Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian residents and a U.S. Internet monitoring company say Syria is experiencing a nationwide Internet outage. It is the second such blackout in two weeks.The U.S.-based Renesys Corp. says Syria went offline Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. local time.Syrian (More)

5/14/2013

Russian FSB detains US diplomat accused of spying

Posted 4:31 AM 5/14/2013 by Associated Press

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's security services say they detained a U.S. diplomat they claim is a CIA agent after they caught him red-handed trying to recruit a Russian agent.The FSB said in a statement Tuesday that Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, was carrying (More)

Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy

5/13/2013

Bomb near hospital kills 9 people in eastern Libya

Posted 6:39 AM 5/13/2013 by Associated Press

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - A Libyan security official says a car bomb that exploded near a hospital has killed at least nine people, including three children, in the eastern city of Benghazi.

Abdel-Salam al-Barghathi says the car was parked outside a bakery near the city's main hospital when Monday's blast occurred. He says 13 people were also wounded in the blast.

Bangladesh collapse search over; death toll 1,127

5/10/2013

US forces in Europe on alert due to Libya unrest

Posted 1:34 PM 5/10/2013

WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior U.S. military official says Marines and other American forces in Europe have been placed on a heightened state of alert in response to a deteriorating security situation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The alert order applies to a U.S. special operations (More)

Bangladesh workers find survivor in factory rubble

5/9/2013

Afghanistan ready to let US have 9 bases

Posted 6:12 AM 5/9/2013

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is ready to let the U.S. have nine bases in the country after the 2014 combat troop pullout, but wants Washington's "security and economic guarantees" first. Speaking at a ceremony today at Kabul University, Karzai said (More)