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12-year-old suicide bomber kills 4 in Afghanistan

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan -- On the first day of its promised spring offensive, the Taliban used a 12-year-old boy as a suicide bomber in an attack Sunday that killed four civilians, President Hamid Karzai said, calling the child's recruitment inhumane and ...

Israel mourns 6 million Holocaust victims in annual ceremony

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT


JERUSALM -- Israel's prime minister warned Sunday that the nation must not dismiss Iran's threats to its existence, drawing a parallel at a ceremony in memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, a mass murder that ...

Pope beatifies John Paul before millions

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT

VATICAN CITY -- Some 1.5 million pilgrims flooded Rome Sunday to watch Pope John Paul II move a step closer to sainthood in one of the largest Vatican Masses in history, an outpouring of adoration for a beloved and historic figure after years marred ...

Mideast roundup

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT

The latest developments in Arab world's unrest.
Syria
The Syrian military intensifies its assault on Daraa, the besieged city at the center of the country's uprising. Defiant residents who have been pinned down in their homes for nearly a week stru ...

Labor protesters step out in force for May Day

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT


BERLIN -- Some 400,000 people took to the streets in Germany on Sunday as marchers around the world demanded more jobs, better working conditions and higher wages on International Workers' Day.
In Turkey, some 200,000 protesters flooded a central ...

Embassies burnt in Libya

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:13 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Angry mobs attacked Western embassies and U.N. offices 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. Russia accused ...

Osama bin Laden dead

Posted: 01 May 2011 03:07 PM PDT


WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, officials said late Sunday.
President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the developmen ...

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