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Pakistanis upset about U.S. raid

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- Outraged Pakistanis stepped up calls Saturday for top government officials to resign following the daring American helicopter raid that killed Osama bin Laden and embarrassed the nation.Some of the sharpest language was directed at the a ...

Videos show rare view of unkempt bin Laden

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- From a shabby, makeshift office, he ran a global terrorist empire. The world's most wanted man watched newscasts of himself from a tiny television perched atop a rickety old desk cluttered with wires.
For years, the world only saw Os ...

Drug cartel attacks military convoy

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico sent hundreds of soldiers and federal police to a drug-violence plagued northern region Friday, the same day cartel gunmen fired on a military convoy with a grenade launcher and hit a bus carrying employees of a U.S.-owned assem ...

U.S.-born criminal could be behind mass killings

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


SAN FERNANDO, Mexico -- When he was deported from the U.S. to Mexico for the third time, Martin Estrada Luna was a high school dropout with a rap sheet of petty crimes like burglary.
Less than two years later, Mexican authorities say, he has trans ...

Stealth helicopters key in Osama bin Laden raid

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Secret until now, stealth helicopters may have been key to the success of the Osama bin Laden raid. But the so-far-unexplained crash of one of the modified Black Hawks at the scene apparently compromised at least some of the aircraft' ...

Missing students' bodies found off Costa Rica

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT


SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- Kai Lamar wanted nothing more than to serve God and help others, so his family had no reservations about him traveling from the U.S. to Costa Rica to take part in a religious mission there.
"It was an opportunity to show hi ...

Afghan government offices attacked

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Taliban unleashed a major assault Saturday on government buildings throughout Afghanistan's main southern city, an attack that cast doubt on how successful the U.S.-led coalition has been in its nearly yearlong military ...

Pope encourages cooperation during Venetian visit

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT

VENICE, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI greeted thousands of faithful packed into Venice's St. Mark's Square Saturday for a pastoral visit, the first by a pope since his predecessor John Paul II plied the canals 26 years ago in a gondola styled for Venice ...

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