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9/11 prisoners obstruct hearing

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:06 PM PDT


GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants d ...

Cruise line enacts new safety rules

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:06 PM PDT


ROME -- Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA unveiled new safety measures Saturday following the deadly grounding of its ship off Tuscany, saying it will now have real-time tracking of its ships' routes and will impose limits on its captains' abs ...

Chinese activist's case part of larger issue

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:06 PM PDT


BEIJING -- Even if China makes a rare concession and allows legal activist Chen Guangcheng to leave the country with his family, other dissidents say they don't expect a broader easing of controls. Authorities might even tighten the screws on promi ...

Hundreds detained in Egyptian protest

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:07 PM PDT

CAIRO -- Egypt's military officials moved swiftly Saturday to prosecute protesters they blamed for an attack on the Defense Ministry, in an attempt to put down increasingly violent protests against their authority just weeks before the country's pres ...

Israel officer reassigned after striking activist

Posted: 06 May 2012 01:04 AM PDT

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli military official says an officer who was punished for hitting a pro-Palestinian activist last month has been reassigned to a training school.The official said Saturday that Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner is being investigated by mili ...

Airstrikes kill five militants in Yemen

Posted: 06 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT

SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni airstrikes killed five militants in the south Saturday as the country's president vowed to intensify his campaign against al-Qaida militants.Government troops have been waging an offensive against the terror network for several ...

Blaze in Peru kills 14

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:06 PM PDT


CHOSICA, Peru -- A predawn fire swept through a drug rehabilitation center in a town on Lima's outskirts Saturday, killing 14 people in the second blaze in Peru this year to claim the lives of addicts trapped behind locked doors in a private treatm ...

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