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Pakistan arrests al-Qaida leader

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT


ISLAMABAD -- A battered al-Qaida suffered another significant blow when Pakistani agents working with the CIA arrested a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the globe, Paki ...

Japan hit with typhoon, 34 reported dead

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:10 PM PDT

TOKYO -- Japan braced for more heavy rain and floods Monday as the death toll from the worst typhoon to hit the country in seven years climbed to 34. Rescuers searched for 55 others who remained missing, and tens of thousands of families struggled wi ...

Mubarak's first trial day turns into a circus

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:10 PM PDT

CAIRO -- The prosecution's first witness in the trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak startled the court in a stormy session Monday, testifying that police were not ordered to fire on protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square in a contradiction ...

Reports detail collapse of Gadhafi's regime

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:23 PM PDT


TRIPOLI, Libya -- As the uprising grew against Moammar Gadhafi, secret reports from his vaunted intelligence service flowed back to Tripoli. Some were mundane -- how agents erased anti-regime graffiti. Others were more deadly -- a spy volunteered t ...

Somali famine is spreading

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:10 PM PDT

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A famine spreading through Somalia is killing more than a hundred children each day, the U.N. said Monday, and warned that hundreds of thousands more people may die in the coming months unless they receive urgent help.The starva ...

Gladiator ruins found in Austria

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT


PETRONELL-CARNUNTUM, Austria -- They lived in cells barely big enough to turn around in and usually fought until they died. This was the lot of those at a sensational scientific discovery unveiled Monday: The well-preserved ruins of a gladiator sch ...

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