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(AP) – U.S. authorities in Idaho said Thursday they have arrested an Uzbekistan national on federal terrorism charges. Federal prosecutors said Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested in Boise on Thursday after a grand jury issued a three-count indictment as part

Hamas has several business fronts operating in Saudi Arabia and Sudan which launder money for the terrorist group, the Arab News claimed in a report Wednesday. The report claims “high-level Gulf sources” confirmed a previous story in Kuwait’s al Seyassah about the illicit activity. The Gulf

As Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spent what he thought were his dying hours in a boat in which he was eventually captured, he wrote a note indicating the bombings “were retribution for American crimes against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.” According to

(AFP) – Divers leap from a helicopter into the Gulf’s choppy waters to destroy a mine, while a US marine fires at a floating target, as forces from 41 countries gathered for naval manoeuvres facing Iran’s shores. The mine-sweeping exercise

(AP) GOP demands more despite Benghazi email releaseBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law has hired a new lawyer to defend him in the trial he faces in the United States, and the appointment stirred some controversy in the court. Suleiman Abu Ghaith, who appeared in a video September 12,

A suicide car bomb targeted foreign military vehicles on Thursday morning in the Afghan capital Kabul shortly after 8:00 am (0330 GMT), police said, confirming there were casualties. An ambulance official who declined to be named said that 10 Afghans

Kidnappers in Yemen have freed three International Committee of the Red Cross employees, including a Swiss and a Kenyan, along with two Egyptian hostages, following tribal mediation, sources said Thursday. The ICRC confirmed the release of its three workers —

Taiwan on Thursday staged a military exercise in waters near the northern Philippines in response to the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, after rejecting repeated apologies for the death. Philippine coastguards shot dead the 65-year-old last week after they said

New Zealand’s Supreme Court on Thursday granted Kim Dotcom leave to appeal a ruling that US authorities do not have to disclose all of the evidence they have against the Megaupload founder. The Court of Appeal in March had overturned

A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced a couple to 24 years in jail for starving their Cambodian maid to death, one of many such abuse cases straining ties between the country and its neighbours. Hardware store owners Soh Chew Tong,

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.N. General Assembly condemns Syrian regime for violence Palestinians commemorate ‘Al Nakba’ — ‘The Catastrophe’ Tensions escalate between Taiwan and the Philippines Eurozone recession deepens even further than forecast U.N. General Assembly condemns Syrian

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ and KARL RITTERAssociated PressCARACAS, VenezuelaFirst milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities – toilet paper. Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages,

(AFP) – Small amounts of chemical weapons have been used at least twice in Syria, but Washington is seeking more information as it mulls its response, a top US official said Wednesday. “The intelligence community has agreed with varying levels

(AP) – Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more detail publicly

(AP) White House releases trove of Benghazi documentsWASHINGTONThe White House is releasing 100 pages of e-mails and notes related to the Obama administration’s response to the attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, last September. The White House had

(AP) China questions Japan rule over OkinawaBy CHRISTOPHER BODEENAssociated PressBEIJINGChina is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million Japanese along

(AP) US ambassador summoned by Russian foreign ministryMOSCOWThe U.S. Ambassador to Russia was summoned by the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday over Moscow’s claim it caught a U.S. diplomat disguised in a blond wig trying to recruit a counterintelligence officer. Michael

France entered a recession in the first quarter this year with gross domestic product contracting 0.2 percent, after shrinking the same amount in the last quarter of 2012, the official INSEE statistics office said Wednesday. A recession corresponds to a

(AP) Iran hard-liners urge election ban on 2 candidatesTEHRAN, IranHard-line Iranian lawmakers have petitioned authorities to bar two contenders _ a moderate former president and a protege of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad _ from running in next month’s presidential election. According to

Prime Minister David Cameron could face a fresh Conservative rebellion over Europe on Wednesday if a parliamentary motion over an EU referendum is debated. Eurosceptic MP John Baron has introduced a non-binding motion expressing “regret” that last week’s Queen’s Speech,

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com American-Russian relations upset by CIA spy scandal CIA spy scandal may be Russia’s revenge Russia rebuffs West on S-300 missile shipments to Syria American-Russian relations upset by CIA spy scandal Ryan Fogle, alleged CIA

(AP) – A man has been sentenced to three years in prison after he admitted helping raise money so others could travel from Minnesota to Somalia to join a terror group. Ahmed Hussein Mahamud was the last of four men

(AP) – The surge in oil production in the U.S. and Canada and shrinking oil consumption in the developed world is transforming the global oil market. The threat of chronic oil shortages is all but gone, U.S. dependence on Middle