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1 hr ago | WTOP-FM Washington

Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone

An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military, US Marine Corps

5 hrs ago | Vallejo News

Kenya police kill "terror couple" Police shot dead a couple suspected ...

Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa,

9 hrs ago | AdelaideNow...

Woolwich attack: Riots and attacks on mosques

English Defence League supporters have thrown missiles at police in Woolwich after a machete attack that left one man dead.

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Related Topix: World News, Essex County, England, United Kingdom,

Wed May 22, 2013

Click2Houston

4 Americans killed in drone strikes since '09

Counterterrorism drone strikes have killed four Americans overseas since 2009, the U.S. government acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday, one day before President Barack Obama delivers a major speech on related policy.

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Seattle Times

France boosting security at facilities abroad

France's Foreign Ministry says it is strengthening security measures, hiring more guards and buying new equipment to help protect French facilities abroad amid shifting threats.

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Seattle Times

London terror attack leaves 1 dead near barracks

Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime - shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver.

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BBC News

Man dead in suspected terror attack

A man has been killed in a machete attack and two suspects shot and wounded by police in Woolwich, south-east London.

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Related Topix: Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Riot

13WHAM

Four Americans with terror ties killed since 2009

U.S. Attorney General and chief law enforcement official Eric Holder said that a total of four American citizens -- who are suspected to be involved in terrorist activities -- have been killed in military drone strikes since 2009.

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Related Topix: Eric Holder

Lincoln Daily News

Gov't dysfunction may be baked into the system

The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, US Senate, Democrat, ATF

Brandon Sun

Britain formally launches bid to label Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization

The European Union is reassessing whether to declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization, a move it has long shied from despite pressure from the U.S., officials said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Lebanon, Francois Hollande

WTVM

1 killed, 2 injured in possible London terrorist attack

British officials are saying one man is dead and two others were injured in a possible terrorist attack in London on Wednesday.

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Andover Advertiser

Man charged over IRA Hyde Park bomb

A police photographer takes pictures at the scene of the car bomb in Rotton Row, Hyde Park, London, in July 1982 A man has been charged with the murders of four soldiers in the IRA's 1982 Hyde Park bombing, Scotland Yard said.

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Related Topix: Irish Republican Army, Explosion

Lincoln Daily News

EU bid to label Hezbollah wing terror group

Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization.

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NewsOn6 Tulsa

Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance

Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Libya, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

WATE-TV Knoxville

Deadliest attacks in Iraq since US troop pullout

Search-and-rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East,

Tue May 21, 2013

The Miami Herald

UN: Poaching threatens central Africa peace

The illegal trade in elephant ivory may constitute an important source of funding for armed groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in central Africa, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security Council.

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Related Topix: Central African Republic, Africa

Russia Taday

Terrorist 'military emir' killed in Russia's North Caucasus

A key militant leader, described as the right-hand man of the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, was killed by special operations soldiers in a shootout in the North Caucasus, the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee said.

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Related Topix: Russia, World News

The Wichita Eagle

Court: US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

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Related Topix: Osama bin Laden, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

Jerusalem Post

IDF thwarts terror attack, kidnapping in W. Bank

Shin Bet nabs two Hamas, Islamic Jihad cells plotting to kill Israeli, demand release of prisoners in exchange for body.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories,

Jerusalem Post

Jewish terrorist Tytell appeals murder conviction

Jewish terrorist Jack Tytell on Tuesday appealed his conviction and his two life sentences for murdering two Palestinians to the Supreme Court.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East