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Mass. man accused in terror plot seeks bail (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 09:04 AM PST


Mass. man accused in terror plot seeks bail (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 08:50 AM PST
In this Feb. 11, 2009 image rendered from video and provided by WHDH-TV in Boston, Tarek Mehanna is seen outside the federal court in Boston. Federal authorities in Boston said Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, that Mehanna has been charged with conspiring with others on terror attacks against shoppers in U.S. malls and against U.S. military in Iraq. (AP Photo/WHDH-TV)AP - The lawyer for a Massachusetts man accused of conspiring in an alleged terror plot says his client should be allowed home confinement without Internet access until his trial.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 08:15 AM PST
Time.com - When an Army major turns mass murderer on America's largest military base, it fuels the worst fear of terrorism experts: Are lone wolves who don't need an al-Qaeda training camp the new threat to homeland security?
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 07:23 AM PST
AP - Italy's top security official said Thursday that authorities have smashed an international terror cell with the arrest in Italy and elsewhere in Europe of 17 Algerians who were raising money to finance terrorism.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 06:49 AM PST
AP - Three men of Pakistani origin denied any wrongdoing Thursday as they went on trial over an alleged plot to stage suicide attacks in Barcelona on orders from the Pakistan Taliban.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:54 PM PST
AP - A law enforcement official says a terrorism task force did not refer early information about the Fort Hood shooting suspect to superiors because they concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:10 PM PST
FILE- In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 file photo, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, listens to questions as First Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim, left, and Second Vice President Abdul Karim Khalili look on during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP - Warlords helped drive the Russians from Afghanistan, then shelled Kabul into ruins in a bloody civil war after the Soviets left. Now they are back in positions of power, in part because the U.S. relied on them in 2001 to help oust the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks.

North Korea threatens South over naval clash (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:04 AM PST


North Korea threatens South over naval clash (AP)

    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:19 AM PST
    A South Korean tourist looks at the North Korean village, Kaepoong, through a telescope at an observation post in Ganghwa, located inside the civilian passage restriction line that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. South Korea put its troops on high alert Wednesday for possible retaliation by North Korea after its navy suffered a heavy damage in a skirmish, but said it doesn't want to see the clash put a damper on warming ties with its communist neighbor. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - North Korea threatened Thursday to punish South Korea after their first naval skirmish in seven years, as Seoul expressed confidence it could deter any attack from its communist neighbor.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:18 AM PST
    An exhausted US soldier rests after a patrol of Afghanistan's Kunar province in April 2009. The US envoy to Afghanistan has warned against sending thousands more troops to the country as President Barack Obama weighs strategy options in the eight-year conflict, according to reports in the Washington Post and New York Times.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - The US envoy to Afghanistan has warned against sending thousands more troops to the country as President Barack Obama weighs strategy options in the eight-year conflict, reports said Thursday.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:16 AM PST
    Sri Lanka's top general, Sarath Fonseka, the architect of the army's recent victory over Tamil rebels who was switched to a more ceremonial position, quit Thursday, a military source said.(AFP/Ishara S. Kodikara)AFP - Sri Lanka's top general, Sarath Fonseka, the architect of the army's recent victory over Tamil rebels who was switched to a more ceremonial position, quit Thursday, a military source said.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:09 AM PST
    Pakistani police officials on the outskirts of Peshawar in July 2009. Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani spokesman for the Iranian consulate at point blank range Thursday as he set off for work in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.(AFP/File/A Majeed)AFP - Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani spokesman for the Iranian consulate at point blank range Thursday as he set off for work in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:00 AM PST
    A couple watch to buy shoes on a street in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. South Korea's central bank Bank of Korea left its key interest rate at a record low for the ninth straight month Thursday, pledging to maintain low borrowing rates to help extend a recovery in Asia's fourth-largest economy. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - South Korea's central bank left its key interest rate at a record low for the ninth straight month Thursday, pledging to maintain low borrowing rates to help extend a recovery in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:53 AM PST
    Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) supporters face police during anti-government protests in Kathmandu on November 12. Riot police used tear gas and batons to disperse Maoist activists holding a huge protest rally outside the main government compound in Nepal's capital on Thursday.(AFP/Prakash Mathema)AFP - Riot police used tear gas and batons to disperse Maoist activists holding a huge protest rally outside the main government compound in Nepal's capital on Thursday.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:42 AM PST
    Sri Lankan cricketers Tillakaratne Dilshan (right) and Mahela Jayawardene during a training session in Mumbai on November 10. Wet ground conditions caused by overnight rain prevented play on the second day of the three-day match between touring Sri Lanka and the Indian board president's XI on Thursday.(AFP/File/Pal Pillai)AFP - Wet ground conditions caused by overnight rain prevented play on the second day of the three-day match between touring Sri Lanka and the Indian board president's XI here on Thursday.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:34 AM PST
    US Marines in Helmand province in Afghanistan in July 2009. An Australian sniffer dog has been found alive and well nearly 14 months after going missing in an intense firefight in war-torn southern Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AFP - An Australian sniffer dog has been found alive and well nearly 14 months after going missing in an intense firefight in war-torn southern Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:30 AM PST
    Reuters - A Chinese government spokesman said Barack Obama should be especially sympathetic to China's opposition to the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence, as a black president who lauded Abraham Lincoln for helping abolish slavery.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:27 AM PST
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves upon her arrival at Manila airport November 12, 2009. REUTERS/Cheryl RaveloReuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called again on Thursday for the unconditional release of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, but suggested there could be high-level contacts with the country's military leaders at a summit this weekend.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:25 AM PST
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves upon her arrival at Manila's international airport, Philippines, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Alquinto)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday vowed support for the Philippine fight against al-Qaida-linked militants and highlighted the U.S. military's role in helping the country recover from deadly typhoons.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:01 AM PST
    FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, a 20-year-old petitioner from Anhui province waits to speak to police after she claimed she had been raped at a 'black jail' in Beijing, China. Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China's central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that mainland police refuse to acknowledge or crack down on, a human rights group said Thursday Nov. 12, 2009. Black jails emerged in China about six years ago when the random detention of vagrants was outlawed. Their existence has been well-documented by human rights groups, lawyers, and the international media, but Thursday's report sheds new light on the economics of the jails and why they remain immune to prosecution despite violating Chinese and international law. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China's central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to acknowledge or crack down on, a human rights group said Thursday.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:51 AM PST
    German defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, center, pictured in in the cockpit of a Bundeswehr plane on his way to Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday Nov. 12, 2009. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, as well as Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in the country. He is also expected to meet with German troops. (AP Photo/Michael Kappeler,Pool)AP - Germany's defense minister said Wednesday that his country was committed to its mission in Afghanistan, where it has more than 4,000 troops, but that President Hamid Karzai's new administration must outline a clear plan for the future.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:30 AM PST
    In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, Australian explosive detection dog Sabi is photographed at Forward Operating Base Ripley in Tarin Kowt, Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan. Sabi that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year. Sabi was with a joint Australian-Afghan army patrol ambushed in restive Uruzgan province in September 2008, but there was no sign of Sabi after the battle that followed - until now. (AP Photo/Andrew Mearse, Pool)AP - A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:28 AM PST
    A Pakistani Army helicopter flies over the northwest tribal district of Mohmand in August. At least 10 Pakistani security personnel went missing after Taliban militants attacked their convoy in a lawless tribal region on the Afghan border, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/File/A Majeed)AP - Gunmen killed a Pakistani working at the Iranian Consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, adding to security fears in the country as it presses an offensive against the Taliban along the nearby Afghan border.
    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:05 AM PST
    A U.S. Air force paratrooper packs his parachute after his landing during 'Cope-India-09', a joint exercise between the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the U.S. Air Force in the northern Indian city of Agra, October 19, 2009. A six-day joint exercise begins here on Monday. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA MILITARY POLITICS)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's inauguration to a second five-year term will be held Nov. 19 at the heavily guarded palace compound in the capital Kabul.
    Posted: 11 Nov 2009 11:35 PM PST
    EDITORS: THIS ADDS THE PHOTORAPHER'S NAME AT THE END OF THE CAPTION**Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko arrive at the National Theater in Tokyo, Japan, to attend a ceremony in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the emperor's coronation Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The ceremony was conducted by the Japanese government. (AP Photo/Kiyoshi Ota, POOL)AP - Tens of thousands of well-wishers lined the streets of Tokyo on Thursday for a parade on the 20th anniversary of the coronation of Emperor Akihito, who urged Japanese not to forget the lessons of World War II.
    Posted: 11 Nov 2009 09:24 PM PST
    Released Irish Catholic priest Rev. Michael Sinnott waves as he arrives at the Villamor Air Base in suburban Manila, Philippines, on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The 79-year-old Sinnott, abducted a month ago, has been freed unharmed and neither country paid any of the kidnappers' US$2 million ramson demand, Irish and Filipino authorities said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - A 79-year-old Irish priest said he hiked through jungles, survived raging seas and slept in a swamp under a tarpaulin before his captors released him Thursday after a month, apparently without getting the ransom they demanded.
    Posted: 11 Nov 2009 08:46 PM PST
    AP - Oil prices hovered above $79 a barrel Thursday in Asia as investors eyed signs that U.S. crude demand remains weak.
    Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:10 PM PST
    FILE- In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 file photo, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, listens to questions as First Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim, left, and Second Vice President Abdul Karim Khalili look on during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP - Warlords helped drive the Russians from Afghanistan, then shelled Kabul into ruins in a bloody civil war after the Soviets left. Now they are back in positions of power, in part because the U.S. relied on them in 2001 to help oust the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks.

    BMW, Chinese partner to invest in expansion (AFP)

    Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:03 AM PST


    BMW, Chinese partner to invest in expansion (AFP)

      Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:04 AM PST
      Models pose on a customized BMW at an auto show in Shanghai in April. BMW and its Chinese partner will invest five billion yuan ($732 million) to expand production capacity in the world's biggest car market, the German auto maker has said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - BMW and its Chinese partner will invest five billion yuan (732 million dollars) to expand production capacity in the world's biggest car market, the German auto maker said on Thursday.
      Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:30 AM PST
      Reuters - A Chinese government spokesman said Barack Obama should be especially sympathetic to China's opposition to the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence, as a black president who lauded Abraham Lincoln for helping abolish slavery.
      Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:01 AM PST
      FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, a 20-year-old petitioner from Anhui province waits to speak to police after she claimed she had been raped at a 'black jail' in Beijing, China. Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China's central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that mainland police refuse to acknowledge or crack down on, a human rights group said Thursday Nov. 12, 2009. Black jails emerged in China about six years ago when the random detention of vagrants was outlawed. Their existence has been well-documented by human rights groups, lawyers, and the international media, but Thursday's report sheds new light on the economics of the jails and why they remain immune to prosecution despite violating Chinese and international law. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China's central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to acknowledge or crack down on, a human rights group said Thursday.
      Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:52 AM PST
      Reuters - When Chinese president Hu Jintao arrived in Singapore for a state visit this week, he announced China's favorite diplomatic gift -- two pandas -- but chose his words very carefully.
      Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:40 AM PST
      AFP - Chinese state agents regularly abduct citizens and detain them for days or months in secret, illegal "black jails", subjecting them to physical and psychological abuses, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
      Posted: 11 Nov 2009 06:48 PM PST
      Reuters - China will stick to its active fiscal policy and loose monetary measures even though its economic recovery is now on more solid footing, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday.
      Posted: 11 Nov 2009 12:26 PM PST
      Reuters - U.S. critics of China's currency policy said on Wednesday they were skeptical of a hint from Beijing that it could soon let its yuan rise against the dollar again after an 18-month hiatus.
      Posted: 11 Nov 2009 10:54 AM PST
      An employee checks U.S. dollar banknotes at a branch of Bank of China in Hefei, Anhui province November 2, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - China sent its clearest signal yet that it was ready to allow yuan appreciation after an 18-month hiatus, saying on Wednesday it would consider major currencies, not just the dollar, in guiding the exchange rate.
      Posted: 11 Nov 2009 03:34 AM PST
      Construction workers work at a building under construction Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009 in Shanghai, China. China's retail sales and industrial output both jumped in October from the same month a year earlier, further signs that its economic recovery is firmly on track, the government said Wednesday. The key inflation rate, the consumer price index, was down 0.5 percent in October from the same month last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - The slump in China's exports eased last month as industrial output and retail sales rose sharply, the government said Wednesday, showing that recovery in the world's third-largest economy was firmly on track.
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