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Exotic pets seized from drug kingpins strain zoos

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:27 PM PDT


TOLUCA, Mexico -- The three tiny squirrel monkeys led a life of luxury on a 16-acre ranch, surrounded by extravagant gardens and barns built for purebred horses.
More than 200 animals, ranging from mules to peacocks and ostriches, lived on the ran ...

U.S. searches for Libyan weapons

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:28 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- The United States said Friday it has warned oil companies operating in North Africa of an al-Qaida terrorist plot possibly using shoulder-launched missiles to fire at their headquarters or planes, and government officials said the U.S ...

Girl, 10, recounts Iraqi bus massacre

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:27 PM PDT

KARBALA, Iraq -- The trip was intended to give Tabarak Thaer a glimpse of the world beyond Iraq's violence and misery. Instead, it brought the 10-year-old face to face with terror when insurgents boarded the bus she was riding, forced the male passen ...

Fighting intensifies in Libya

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:27 PM PDT


SIRTE, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi supporters put up fierce resistance against offensives trying to storm two strongholds Friday, forcing revolutionary fighters into retreat in the mountains and turning Gadhafi's seaside hometown into an urban battlef ...

Jailed UBS trader lived in luxury

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:27 PM PDT


LONDON -- Educated at an exclusive school in a picturesque patch of English countryside, Ghana-born trader Kweku Adoboli was known to neighbors as a polite and well-dressed young man who mixed grueling hours in London's financial district with a la ...

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