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- Al-Qaida tied to Syria blasts
- Thailand: Iranians' targets were Israeli diplomats
- Pentagon offers details on shift in Afghan mission
- Honduras prison fire shows nation's discord
- Iran says it's not the aggressor in nuclear showdown
- Gunmen release 119 inmates in Nigeria
- Japan whalers want group's funds frozen
| Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:07 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Top U.S. intelligence officials pointed to al-Qaida in Iraq on Thursday as the likely culprit behind recent bombings in Syria, the deadliest attacks against the Syrian government in the 11-month uprising. Though the U.S. has called f ... |
| Thailand: Iranians' targets were Israeli diplomats Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:05 AM PST BANGKOK (AP) -- Three Iranians detained after accidentally setting off explosives in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats, Thailand's top policeman said Thursday in the first confirmation by local officials that the group was plotting at ... |
| Pentagon offers details on shift in Afghan mission Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:05 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon on Wednesday offered new details of its plan for shifting from a combat mission in Afghanistan to one focused on training and advising Afghan forces as they gradually shoulder more of the combat burden.The Army identif ... |
| Honduras prison fire shows nation's discord Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:28 PM PST TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Six guards, 800 prisoners, one set of keys. The numbers spelled disaster when fire tore through a prison and 355 people died, many of them men who had never been convicted of a crime. The deadliest prison blaze in a centur ... |
| Iran says it's not the aggressor in nuclear showdown Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:28 PM PST DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Facing international sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran is taking the position that it's the victim, not the aggressor. Iran is pointing to the cases of five slain scientists whose deaths it blames on Israel and ... |
| Gunmen release 119 inmates in Nigeria Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:28 PM PST LAGOS, Nigeria -- Armed gunmen from a radical Islamist sect stormed a federal prison in Nigeria amid heavy gunfire and explosions, killing one guard and freeing 119 inmates in an assault marking its growing national ambitions, officials said Thursday ... |
| Japan whalers want group's funds frozen Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:07 PM PST SEATTLE -- Japanese whalers on Thursday were to ask a U.S. judge to freeze the bank accounts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, arguing that the Washington state-based anti-whaling activist group finances terrorism. The society has led atta ... |
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