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In photo taken with a cell phone, police officers and investigators seen at the site of an explosion at the traffic police station on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's Dagestan region, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010.

photo: AP / Arsen Mollayev

Suicide bombing kills 6 Russian police, wounds 16
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ARSEN MOLLAYEV Associated Press Writer= MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) â A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at a police station in Russia's troubled North Caucasus on Wednesday, killing at least six officers and wounding 16, police said. But the officers who died took action to prevent far greater devastation at the traffic police...

Naoto Kan, acting leader of Democratic Party of Japan, smiles as he adds a red rosette on the list of the candidates as the results of the upper house elections are announced at the party headquarters in Tokyo Sunday, July 29, 2007.

photo: AP / Koji Sasahara

Japan PM replaces finance minister
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Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has named his deputy, Naoto Kan,...

This photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009 shows Yemeni security forces outside the French embassy in San'a, Yemen. France and the Czech Republic have joined the U.S. and Britain in closing their embassies in the Yemeni capital in response to threats of attack by an al-Qaida offshoot.

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Yemen: Security forces capture 3 al-Qaeda suspects
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Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security forces arrested three suspected al-Qaeda militants from a cell that the U.S. has said was linked to a plot against the American or other embassies, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The arrests were the latest move in 's U.S.-backed crackdown on...

Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 on a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, in this Dec 22, 1988 file photo. In the 15 years since Pan American World Airways shut down, ex-employee Anthony La Pera had assumed he would never get paid for leftover wages and accrued vacation. But La Pera and another 15,000 ex-employees can expect to open their mailboxes one day this December and find that a check has arrived, from a $33 million settlement with the government of Libya over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. It marks the the end of the liquidation of an iconic airline.

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'Flaws' in key Lockerbie evidence
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An investigation by BBC's Newsnight has cast doubts on the key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. Tests aimed at reproducing the blast appear to undermine the case's central forensic link, based on a tiny fragment identified as part of a bomb timer. The tests suggest the fragment, which linked the...

Activists of "Gaza Freedom Marchers" display slogans supporting the people of Gaza, against the subterranean wall barrier being placed to stop tunnels being used to transport goods into Gaza, during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010

photo: AP / Amr Nabil

Clash in Egypt over Gaza aid effort
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At least 55 people have been injured in clashes between Egyptian police and pro-Palestinian activists who were trying to deliver aid into the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses say. Some 520 activists broke down the gate at the port in El-Arish late on Tuesday in protest against an Egyptian decision to ship some of the goods through Israel, medical workers...

**FILE** In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, Guantanamo detainees, in white, and U.S. military guards walk around Camp 4 detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A U.S. appeals court reversed a ruling Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees, none of whom are labeled enemy combatants, to the United States.

photo: AP / Brennan Linsley

Obama halts transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen
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Washington, January 06: The US has halted the transfer of inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to Yemen, where an Al Qaeda branch allegedly plotted the Dec 25 attack on a Detroit-bound airliner,...

President Barack Obama speaks in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010, about plans to thwart future terrorist attacks after an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.

photo: AP / Gerald Herbert

US failed over bomb attempt - Obama
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US President Barack Obama has asserted that the US government had enough information to foil the attempted bombing on a Christmas Day airline flight but intelligence agencies "failed to connect the dots". Mr Obama called that unacceptable and said, "I will not tolerate it." The accused attacker, a Nigerian man who claimed ties...

Sri Lankan presidential candidate of the common opposition, former military chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka, center, waves to his supporters during a public rally in Vavuniya, about 230 kilometers (144 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010.

photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena

Sri Lanka candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka woos Tamils
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By Saroj Pathirana BBC Sinhala...

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, Yemeni soldiers on top of a truck patrol the road in front of the main entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the capital San'a, Yemen. The U.S. Embassy in Yemen reopened its doors Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010

photo: AP / Nasser Nasser

US embassy reopens in Yemen
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SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy in Yemen reopened its doors Tuesday after a two-day closure due to threats, even as the Yemeni government maintained that the security situation in the capital had always been under control. The embassy said it shut down because of information of an imminent al-Qaida attack, but now government actions "have...

In this image provided by the Solomon Island's Police, a scene aftermath of quake on the island of Rendova, Solomon Islands, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.

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At least 1,000 people homeless on Solomons after tsunami
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Honiara: Landslides and a tsunami unleashed by a major earthquake destroyed some 200 houses on one Solomon island, leaving about one-third of the population homeless, a disaster management official said Tuesday. Visual assessments from the air showed extensive damage on a remote western island after a 7.2-magnitude temblor struck near the Pacific...