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- Al-Qaida raises flag over Yemen town, seizes control
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 03:15 AM -0800
Islamist militants have seized full control of a town southeast of Yemen's capital, raising their flag over the citadel, and pledging allegiance to al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, residents said...[more]
- Strong earthquake hits off Antarctica's coast
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 03:05 AM -0800
A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday off the coast of Antarctica, prompting a warning that there was a "small possibility" it could trigger a tsunami.
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- Car bomb kills 8 in northern Iraq
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 02:57 AM -0800
A car bomb killed at least eight people outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, Iraq officials said, in the latest in a series of attacks to target the country's Shiites since the U.S....[more]
- Nigeria president offers concessions, cuts fuel prices
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 02:42 AM -0800
Soldiers have barricaded key roads in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos as the president offered a concession to halt fuel price protests that he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking...[more]
- N. Korea denies punishing citizens for not mourning enough
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 02:30 AM -0800
North Korea has angrily denied allegations that it punished some of its citizens for inadequately mourning the death of its late leader Kim Jong Il.
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- Israel-US war drill postponed over Iran tensions
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 02:15 AM -0800
The United States and Israel have postponed their largest-ever military drill to avoid aggravating mounting tensions between Iran and the international community.[more]
- 'Totally drug-resistant' TB strain reported
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 12:26 AM -0800
Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.[more]
- North Korea defector learns to trust the stranger who saved him
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 12:00 AM -0800
He managed to escape North Korea only to be held against his will in China. A Seoul-based fiction writer risked her comfortable life to help.On his first day of freedom, North Korean defector Kim...[more]
- In fog of Syria, observers can't tell what they are seeing
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 12:00 AM -0800
A team of Arab League observers is warmly greeted in one town, but the desperate crowd later becomes hostile. The observers flee, and bullets fly, but who is firing?When observers from the Arab...[more]
- North Korea defector learns to trust the stranger who saved him
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 07:19 PM -0800
He managed to escape North Korea only to be held against his will in China. A Seoul-based fiction writer risked her comfortable life to help.On his first day of freedom, North Korean defector Kim...[more]
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