2012-02-10 04:07:27
A leading Jewish organization and others outraged by a photo showing Marine snipers in Afghanistan posing with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol are demanding President Barack Obama order an investigation and hold the troops accountable.
The Marine Corps ......
2012-02-10 00:37:02
The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS -- a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.
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2012-02-09 23:16:34
A military jury on Thursday found a Marine sergeant not guilty after authorities charged him with hazing a lance corporal who later committed suicide in Afghanistan.
The general court-martial panel of three officers and five enlisted Marines deliberated about an ......
2012-02-09 21:07:29
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday accused President Barack Obama of actively seeking ways to allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon and suggested that the administration had betrayed Israel by publicly disclosing what may be a plan to attack the Muslim nation.......
2012-02-09 20:43:24
The Mexican army says it has found 73 Central American migrants in three houses near the U.S. border and troops arrested four men suspected of planning to smuggle the people into Texas.
A Defense Department statement Thursday says the illegal immigrants, includin......
2012-02-09 19:35:50
BOB CHRISTIE,Associated PressPAUL DAVENPORT,Associated Press
Ron Barber was always the behind-the-scenes man for his boss, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Then he was shot, when a gunman opened fire on the congresswoman and others at a Tucson grocery store as Barber ushered constituents to meet her. Over the year since, h......
2012-02-09 18:54:52
Hold the mystery meat: Military mess halls soon will be serving more fruits, vegetables and low-fat dishes under the first program in 20 years to improve nutrition standards across the armed services.
First lady Michelle Obama and Pentagon officials announced the......
2012-02-09 18:53:01
A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit against the prison commander, arguing a new rule subjecting legal mail to a security review is unconstitutional and amounts to illegal "intelligence monitoring" of a U.S. citizen.
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2012-02-09 18:31:06
Some examples of changes for women in the military:
ARMY
Among the jobs that will be opened to women for the first time are tank and armored troop carrier mechanic, artillery radar operator and rocket launcher crewmember.
N......
2012-02-09 17:38:27
The Mexican army's highest official concedes the military has committed errors in the fight against organized crime and drug traffickers but says those responsible have been punished.
National and international human rights groups have accused Mexican soldiers an......
2012-02-09 12:04:01
An Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks will be back in a military courtroom for an arraignment later this month.
The arraignment for Pfc. Bradley Manning will be held at Fort Meade on Feb. 23.
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2012-02-09 11:34:38
In a high-stakes gamble, an imprisoned member of a Palestinian militant group has waged a hunger strike for almost two months, trying to draw attention to Israel's military justice system and its treatment of detainees who can be held without charge for lengthy periods.
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2012-02-09 10:50:09
For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.
Now, researchers from the U.S. Navy are hoping to confirm what the men who discovered the wreck believe:......
2012-02-09 03:32:24
Bret Baker welcomes customers aboard a Boeing 757 wearing a three-piece suit and a sparkling smile. His manner is all Friendly Skies but his pocket patch bears the seal of the Vice President of the United States, signaling that this is government business.
And th......
2012-02-08 22:28:55
For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.
Now, researchers from the U.S. Navy are hoping to confirm what the men who discovered the wreck believe:......
2012-02-08 21:52:19
Ryan Willen scored 22 points and Jim Mower added 17 to pace Lafayette to a 90-74 Patriot League victory over Army on Wednesday night.
The Leopards (11-13, 6-3) used a 14-3 run to build a 61-49 lead with 11:53 remaining and never led by fewer than 10 points after ......
2012-02-08 20:04:35
A judge convicted a Chinese-born American Wednesday of stealing trade secrets but acquitted her of more serious charges of economic espionage at a trial that highlighted persistent fears about China pilfering vital information from U.S. companies to bolster its own economy and milit......
2012-02-08 17:27:16
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICIANS PARADE TO PRISON
Vince Fumo. John Perzel. Mike Veon. Bill DeWeese. One by one, the mighty have fallen in Pennsylvania, from the luxurious halls of the state Capitol to the stark halls of prison -- felled by ego, arrogance and a legislativ......
2012-02-08 14:49:35
Egypt refused to back down Wednesday in a dispute with the U.S. over Cairo's crackdown on nonprofit groups despite Washington's threats to cut aid, while the military deployed troops to the nation's streets after a surge in violence and protests against its rule.
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2012-02-08 14:10:35
An AP Member Exchange. Please credit the member.......
2012-02-08 13:37:27
Soldiers who don't believe in God can go to war with "Atheist" stamped on their dog tags, but humanists and others with various secular beliefs are still officially invisible in the Army.
Maj. Ray Bradley is applying to be the first humanist recognized ......
2012-02-08 13:10:17
The Army Corps of Engineers has allocated almost $17 million in additional funding for fiscal 2012 for the deepening of the Delaware River shipping channel.
The funding for the dredging project is part of $507 million in additional funding for ongoing work that t......
2012-02-08 12:04:02
Japan and the United States agreed Wednesday to proceed with plans to transfer thousands of U.S. troops out of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving behind the stalled discussion about closing a major U.S. Marine base there.
The transfer, a key to U.S.......
2012-02-08 10:49:04
The Pakistani army held talks with NATO and Afghan forces on Wednesday in an effort to improve coordination along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a sign of thawing relations after American airstrikes accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year.
Pakistan ......
2012-02-08 09:32:06
Britain would struggle to mount another operation on the scale of its intervention in Libya because of deep defense cuts, a report from lawmakers warned Wednesday.
The Libya campaign, which led to the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi, was successful and justified but......
2012-02-08 02:42:39
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles is heading into Venezuela's first opposition primary warning that Hugo Chavez's foes must choose a strong candidate if they want to win back the presidency and halt the country's slide into chaos.
Capriles is convinced he's tha......
2012-02-07 23:06:23
A sergeant singled out a member of his squad at their patrol base in Afghanistan, a military prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of the military trial of a Hawaii-based Marine accused of hazing a fellow Marine who later committed suicide in Afghanistan.
Sgt. Ben......
2012-02-07 20:48:23
Wherever North Korea's young new leader goes, they're there: a group of graying military and political officials who shadow Kim Jong Un as he visits army bases, attends concerts and tours schools.
As Kim Jong Un steps into the role of "supreme commander"......
2012-02-07 14:10:16
Bombs exploded Tuesday at two major military bases on the outskirts of a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa's most populous nation, injuring an unknown number of people.
The attacks came as a radical Islamist sect known as......
2012-02-07 13:40:33
As of Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at least 1,769 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP count is six less than the Defense Department's tally......
2012-02-07 07:51:21
Emergency official says explosion hits near military base in central Nigeria city.......
2012-02-07 07:38:01
A small group of Marines trudged onto the beach sands in pitch-black night with an armada of U.S. Navy warships sailing just off the shore. Their mission: root out insurgents that threatened to attack another American force to the south.
The careful operation und......
2012-02-07 07:09:15
A small group of Marines trudged onto the beach sands in pitch-black night with an armada of U.S. Navy warships sailing just off the shore. Their mission: root out insurgents that threatened to attack another American force to the south.
The careful operation und......
2012-02-07 00:22:08
The United States and Japan, hoping to break a stalemate over the U.S. military presence on Okinawa, are discussing a plan to transfer nearly 5,000 troops to Guam despite their failure to replace a major Marine base on the southern Japan island.
The transfer, a k......
2012-02-06 21:46:57
The court martial for a Marine sergeant accused of hazing a member of his squad who later committed suicide in Afghanistan was delayed Monday after the prosecution said it wanted to add to its list of accusations against the defendant.
Military judge Col. Michael......
2012-02-06 21:36:26
The U.S. closed its embassy in Syria and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus on Monday in a new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power and halt the murderous grind in Syria -- now among the deadliest conflicts of the Arab Spring.
Althou......
2012-02-06 21:16:08
A tent city that's among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the movement in communities including Miami, Washington and Pittsburgh.
Occupy Maine demonstrators rem......
2012-02-06 17:23:51
The hulking cargo ship that tore through a western Kentucky bridge last month is carrying millions of dollars of rocket components that will be used to blast satellites into space for NASA and Department of Defense missions.
The Coast Guard on Monday allowed the ......
2012-02-06 16:54:36
The U.S. Air Force plans to close the 911th Airlift Wing, which is based just outside Pittsburgh. But members of Congress from both parties say they'll fight the decision.
Closing the unit could affect more than 1,900 personnel who work there, including just over......
2012-02-06 14:52:36
Dan Conne says he and his wife and son thought they were going to die after getting lost while picking mushrooms and spending nearly a week in the rugged forest of southwest Oregon.
They spent the nights huddled in a hollow log and considered sacrificing their pi......
2012-02-06 14:51:27
A massive cargo ship that tore through a bridge in western Kentucky has been moved downriver so the remaining debris can be cleared from its bow.
The Coast Guard says the Delta Mariner was cut from underwater debris on the Tennessee River Monday morning and the b......
2012-02-06 08:19:55
A Libyan prosecutor says 40 suspects have appeared before a military tribunal in the country's first trial of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists since the dictator's overthrow.
The proceedings that opened Sunday in a Benghazi military base have been adjourned until Feb. 1......
2012-02-06 01:00:47
Most families returned to a military housing complex outside a remote U.S. Marine training base in Northern California on Sunday, two days after a propane gas explosion that killed a Marine's wife and critically burned two other people.
A total of 38 families wer......
2012-02-05 20:32:40
Three mushroom pickers lost six nights in the rugged forest of southwest Oregon with no food considered eating their dog, and used the screen on their dead cellphone and the blade of a sheath knife to flash a signal at the helicopter pilot who found them.
Dan Con......
2012-02-05 17:39:57
For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent -- an action that many fear might trigger a wider war, terrorism and global ec......
2012-02-05 14:46:24
The United States proposed an international coalition to support Syria's opposition Sunday after Russia and China blocked a U.N. attempt to end nearly 11 months of bloodshed, raising fears that violence will escalate. Rebel soldiers said force was now the only way to oust President ......
2012-02-05 13:20:43
A Chicago college is offering a class on the Occupy movement.
Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University's "Occupy Everywhere" class. It's a three-credit political science course that looks at the movement that started last s......
2012-02-05 13:17:34
When Bob Keares proposed building Pennsylvania's largest solar farm in the heart of Chester County, he expected a warm reception, certainly from environmentalists.
With 35,000 panels arrayed on a steep slope in Caln Township, the farm would generate 10 megawatts ......
2012-02-05 10:16:32
More than 15,000 people including Malian military personnel have fled into neighboring countries since members of the nomadic Tuareg ethnic group launched a new rebellion against the Malian government last month, aid officials say.
Some civilians are fleeing area......
2012-02-05 10:10:22
Israel's military has picked a new air force chief at a time of growing tension with Iran.
The military said Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, 52, was appointed Sunday and takes over in April.
U.S. officials say Israel might be planning to attack Iran's n......
2012-02-05 09:09:34
Eight sailors have been discharged from the Navy after a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship that was captured on video and included the choking of a fellow sailor, a Navy spokesman said Saturday.
The eight received general discharges......
2012-02-05 00:01:03
It was the first State of the Union address after the 9/11 attacks, and America was leading an invasion of Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden. Fittingly, this is where President George W. Bush began on Jan. 29, 2002: "As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our econo......
2012-02-04 16:28:19
London's tabloids and British leaders are depicting Argentina as dangerous and belligerent 30 years after its invasion of the Falkland Islands. Argentines say Britain should consider its own history of waging war around the globe, and acknowledge that the islands and seas around the......
2012-02-04 10:57:42
The Obama administration on Saturday called for stepped up U.S.-European cooperation to isolate tyrannies like the Assad regime in Syria, promote democracy in the Arab World and beyond and repair damage from the global financial crisis.
And, as America shifts its......
2012-02-04 08:57:06
NATO leaders on Saturday downplayed Moscow's fears that a new Europe-based missile defense system represents a threat to Russia, while vowing to move ahead with it, even if those concerns cannot be fully addressed.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tol......
2012-02-04 03:25:35
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is reassuring Europe that it remains central to U.S. defense interests, even as the Obama administration is withdrawing two of the four Army brigades stationed on the continent.
In a speech Saturday to an international security......
2012-02-04 00:04:00
An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
Military District of Washington commander Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington referred all charges against Pfc. B......
2012-02-03 20:07:10
Thirty-one members of Congress prodded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday to consider a multi-billion-dollar plan released this week for cutting a Chicago-area link between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds to stop migration of Asian carp and other invasive sp......
2012-02-03 19:43:44
George Esper, the tenacious Associated Press correspondent who refused to leave his post in the last days of the Vietnam War, remaining behind to cover the fall of Saigon, has died. He was 79.
Esper died in his sleep on Thursday night, his son, Thomas, told the A......
2012-02-03 18:43:52
A Colombian rebel commander who has been detained in Venezuela since May was taken to a military hospital because of health problems, Venezuelan authorities said Friday.
The Prosecutor General's office said in a statement that Guillermo Torres Cueter, better know......
2012-02-03 17:03:21
A Pentagon legal official refused Friday to extend an important deadline for defense lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attack, a decision that means their highly anticipated arraignment may now occur within months.
Bruce MacDon......
2012-02-03 15:17:07
The U.S. Air Force plans to close the 911th Airlift Wing in Pittsburgh.
The Air Force says in a statement Friday that it plans to retire or transfer all seven C-130H2 aircraft from the base over the next two years.
The Pittsburgh Air National ......
2012-02-03 13:20:12
The Taliban are not beaten, the peace process is bogged down in internal squabbles and Afghan security forces aren't ready to take control of the nation. Yet the U.S. and its partners are talking about speeding up -- rather than slowing down -- their exit from the war.
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2012-02-03 09:16:21
A judicial official says Jordan's military prosecutor has charged a maverick ex-parliamentarian with public incitement against the country's king.
The official says Ahmed Oweidi Abbadi faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted.
Abbadi, 66, was......
2012-02-03 09:10:54
A day after proclaiming the death of a top regional terrorist suspect in a U.S.-backed airstrike, the Philippine military acknowledged Friday that his remains still have not been found.
Troops were searching the jungle camp that was hit Thursday for the body of M......
2012-02-03 08:16:49
NATO's top official said Friday that the alliance expects regional powers to contribute to a multibillion dollar fund to finance the Afghan army and police after they assume full responsibility for the war in 2014.
Since Afghanistan -- one of the world's poorest ......
2012-02-03 07:59:37
Nepal's former communist rebel fighters began leaving the camps they have called home for five years on Friday after receiving government checks as part of a plan to integrate them into society.
Thousands of former Maoist rebels have been living in camps spread a......
2012-02-03 04:17:55
The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document....
2012-02-03 03:49:15
The world's top security and defense officials are gathering in Munich, with uncertainty over the future of the Middle East and the implications of the financial crisis in Europe looming large.
The Munich Security Conference begins Friday with officials from more......
2012-02-02 23:48:09
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese ......
2012-02-02 23:48:07
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese ......
2012-02-02 23:47:00
The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document....
2012-02-02 21:31:08
Federal officials are trying to free a whale caught in fishing nets off Hawaii.
The Coast Guard said Thursday it received a call from a charter boat reporting an adult male humpback whale was entangled in fishing nets from head to tail. The boat reported that the......
2012-02-02 19:53:57
HRVOJE HRANJSKI,Associated PressJIM GOMEZ,Associated Press
The Philippine military said it killed three of Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist leaders in a U.S.-backed airstrike that significantly weakens an al-Qaida-linked network that had used islands in the southern Philippines as a hideout and training base.
The d......
2012-02-02 18:10:07
A discharged Marine private who slit his wrists in a suicide attempt is fighting his military conviction for deliberately injuring himself, arguing the punishment is inconsistent with the armed forces' efforts to battle a rise in suicides during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.......
2012-02-02 17:48:14
ROBERT BURNS,Associated PressSLOBODAN LEKIC,Associated Press
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that NATO allies have agreed broadly to step back from the lead combat role in Afghanistan and let local forces take their place as early as next year, a shortened timetable that startled officials and members of Congress.
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2012-02-02 17:46:43
An environmental watchdog group filed a lawsuit Thursday against the company it blames for an oil spill 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana, claiming oil has been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for more than seven years with few details about what's being done to stop it.
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2012-02-02 17:25:09
Lawyers for at least two Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning the Sept. 11 attack asked the Pentagon on Thursday to extend a deadline for pretrial motions, which could again delay a case that has been stalled by political and legal disputes for years.
The......
2012-02-02 16:31:02
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese ......
2012-02-02 16:26:02
ADAM GOLDMAN,Associated PressCHRIS HAWLEY,Associated PressEILEEN SULLIVAN,Associated PressMATT APUZZO,Associated Press
In the spring of 2006, as relations worsened between the United States and Iran, the New York Police Department worried about what might happen if the two countries went to war. Would Iranian proxies attack inside the U.S.?
Police analysts reviewed department fil......
2012-02-02 15:52:57
The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during the Fort Hood shooting rampage will go on trial in June, a military judge ruled Thursday after agreeing to a three-month delay.
Attorneys for Maj. Nidal Hasan argued during a hearing at the Army post in Te......
2012-02-02 14:37:41
Capping a day of strident warnings by Israeli officials about the dangers posed by Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that the world is increasingly ready to consider a military strike against Iran if economic sanctions don't halt Tehran's suspect nuclear program. ......
2012-02-02 12:36:51
Federal officials say authorities have seized nearly $5 million worth of phony Super Bowl sportswear and merchandise in a nationwide sweep.
Officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the results of the......
2012-02-02 12:19:39
Britain's Defense Ministry: Prince William arrives in Falkland Islands for 6-week deployment.......
2012-02-02 11:49:07
NATO's top official joined the U.S. and France on Thursday in calling for Afghan forces to take the lead in all combat operations by mid-2013, a year earlier than originally expected, while Western troops would shift to back up roles in the fight against the Taliban.
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2012-02-02 09:41:05
Roy Hallums was enduring his 311th day of captivity, blindfolded, his hands and feet bound, stuffed into a hole under the floor of a farm building outside Baghdad. He heard a commotion upstairs and managed to get the blindfold off. Delta Force troops broke open the hatch. An America......
2012-02-02 04:19:02
Relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli jails have hurled slippers at an armored vehicle carrying visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon into the Gaza Strip.
About 40 relatives of Palestinian prisoners gathered at the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel, hoisting po......
2012-02-01 23:20:04
The family of a slain U.S. Border Patrol agent filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against the federal government on Wednesday.
The 65-page document that's a precursor to a lawsuit was filed in Phoenix and claims Brian Terry was killed because U.S. investiga......
2012-02-01 22:58:45
A military inquiry on Thursday rejected an Australian soldier's allegations that a comrade died unnecessarily during a gunbattle in Afghanistan because the U.S.-led coalition provided inadequate air support.
An unidentified soldier who fought in the battle on Aug......
2012-02-01 21:31:23
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration's most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 and continue a training and advisory role with A......
2012-02-01 21:02:10
The Marine Corps says a squad leader accused of hazing a Marine who later killed himself in Afghanistan will go to trial next week.
Sgt. Benjamin Johns will face a general court martial Monday at Kaneohe Bay. He's the second Marine to go to trial in the case.......
2012-02-01 19:08:56
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Brazil is offering 6,000 visas to Haitians over a five-year period as one of several efforts that look to help the troubled Caribbean nation get on its feet, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday.
She was visiting to show......
2012-02-01 18:33:12
It's usually well after midnight before Bahrain takes a breather.
The thud of riot police stun grenades trails off, the stinging tear gas mist is carried away and the protest chants against the Gulf kingdom's rulers go quiet until the next day. Then the cycle of ......
2012-02-01 17:37:49
A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole has asked a judge to let him question the president of Yemen while he is in the U.S. for medical treatment.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes, the Pentagon-appointed lawyer for Guantanamo prisone......
2012-02-01 14:51:22
Venezuela's congress has approved a law aimed at fighting organized crime and terrorism, though opposition lawmakers say they fear it could be used to crack down on dissent.
Lawmakers allied with President Hugo Chavez say the "Law Against Organized Crime and......
2012-02-01 12:53:23
Four British men fueled by the words of a U.S.-born Muslim cleric pleaded guilty Wednesday to involvement in an al-Qaida inspired plot to spread terror and cause economic damage by bombing the London Stock Exchange at Christmastime.
Five other defendants pleaded ......
2012-02-01 09:26:45
An AP Member Exchange. Please credit the member.......
2012-02-01 05:18:31
A U.N. nuclear team on Wednesday announced plans to revisit Tehran "in the very near future," indicating some progress on its quest to wrest information from Iran about allegations that it is secretly working on an atomic arms program.
The announcement ......
2012-01-31 23:02:05
An international human rights watchdog said Wednesday it has information that sympathetic Philippine military personnel were thwarting attempts by civilian authorities to capture a former army general accused of kidnapping two student activists.
Retired Maj. Gen.......
2012-01-31 21:57:50
An American Muslim group appealed Tuesday to Iran's supreme leader to show clemency for an ex-U.S. military translator with dual citizenship condemned to death on accusations of being a CIA spy.
A letter Tuesday from the Council on American-Islamic Relations asks......
2012-01-31 20:31:27
A Mexican army general and 29 soldiers under his command in a town on the border with Texas are being tried on charges of torture, homicide, drug trafficking and other crimes, a top government official confirmed Tuesday.
Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire said th......
2012-01-31 17:08:49
A look at the Afghan prisoners at Guantanamo that U.S., Afghan and other officials have said are being considered for release as part of a peace deal with the Taliban:
Mohammad Fazl
Fazl has has been held since January 2002, one of the first p......
2012-01-31 12:42:57
As of Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at least 1,766 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP count is six less than the Defense Department's tall......
2012-01-31 11:57:55
India is buying 126 French-made combat aircraft in a massive $11 billion deal that will increase the might of the world's fourth largest air force with the first exported Rafale jets, officials said Tuesday.
India has become the world's biggest arms importer as a......
2012-01-31 10:16:05
European Union nations must increasingly pool their military resources, especially as individual members keep trimming their budgets and the U.S reshapes its military strategy to focus on regions beyond Europe, the bloc's top defense officials said Tuesday.
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2012-01-31 10:15:49
European Union nations must increasingly pool their military resources, especially as individual members keep trimming their budgets and the U.S reshapes its military strategy to focus on regions beyond Europe, the bloc's top defense officials said Tuesday.
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2012-01-31 09:21:17
A Hawaii-based Marine lance corporal will spend 30 days in jail and have his rank reduced to private first class for punching and kicking a fellow Marine who killed himself shortly afterward, a judge ruled late Monday, saying she found no evidence the abuse led to the suicide. ......
2012-01-31 08:17:10
Unsealed federal court records identify a second man in the December 2010 killing of Arizona Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry near Naco.
The U.S. District Court documents identify him as 41-year-old Rito Osorio-Arellanes, who is believed to be the brother of the o......
2012-01-31 08:04:01
The teenage son of a U.S. Air Force officer based in Britain has been shot dead in what the military described Tuesday as a tragic accident.
An Air Force statement did not identify the father but said that he was a lieutenant colonel assigned to an academic excha......
2012-01-31 02:04:11
A Hawaii-based Marine accused of hazing a fellow Marine who later committed suicide in Afghanistan was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail and a reduction in rank.
Navy Capt. Carrie Stephens, the judge in Lance Cpl. Jacob Jacoby's special court-martial, handed do......
2012-01-30 20:30:46
The drought in northern Mexico is so bad that it has hurt even illicit drug growers and their normally well-tended crops of marijuana and opium poppies, a Mexican army commander said Monday.
One effect of the lack of rains is that drug planting has "declined......
2012-01-30 16:49:13
A veterans' advocacy group asked the Army chief of staff Monday to rescind a West Point prayer breakfast invitation to a retired U.S. general who made comments denigrating Islam.
VoteVets.org told Gen. Raymond Odierno in a letter that allowing retired Lt. Gen. Wi......
2012-01-30 16:19:33
The U.S. is not ready to handle an oil spill if drilling off the Cuban coast goes awry but can be better prepared with monitoring systems and other basic steps, experts told government officials Monday.
The comments at a congressional subcommittee hearing in the ......
2012-01-30 15:11:38
Pakistan's top court Monday lifted a travel ban imposed on the country's former ambassador to the U.S. during an investigation into a memo sent to Washington that had enraged the army, in a sign that a scandal that once looked capable of bringing down the government may be losing st......
2012-01-30 10:59:27
Two men were found guilty Monday of involvement in an al-Qaida plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, the first convictions under Norway's anti-terror laws.
A third defendant was acquitted of terror charges but convicted of helpi......
2012-01-30 09:25:00
A magistrate will investigate whether France's military is to blame for not ensuring the safety of 10 French troops killed in an Taliban ambush on an Afghan mountaintop in 2008, officials said Monday.
The probe, the first of its kind in France, could raise uncomf......
2012-01-30 08:54:20
Iran's top diplomat offered Monday to extend the current visit of U.N. nuclear inspectors and expressed optimism their findings would help ease tensions despite international claims that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons.
The comments by Foreign Minister Al......
2012-01-29 22:06:34
For weeks the protests had waned, with only a smattering of people taking to Oakland's streets for occasional weekend marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall.
Then came Saturday, which started peacefully en......
2012-01-29 17:34:26
For weeks the protests had waned, with only a smattering of people taking to Oakland's streets for occasional marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall.
Then came Saturday, which started peacefully enough -- ......
2012-01-29 16:27:48
Iran's foreign minister expressed optimism Sunday that a visit by U.N. inspectors to Iran's nuclear facilities would produce an understanding, despite world concerns that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons.
The three-day inspection tour by the International ......
2012-01-29 12:03:07
When three barges broke loose 10 days ago on the Monongahela River, bouncing off bridges, forcing road closures and slowing the morning commute, the accident resulted in yet-another unscheduled waterway closure in the Army Corps of Engineers' Pittsburgh District.
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2012-01-29 06:01:51
Russia's defiance of international efforts to end Syrian President Bashar Assad's crackdown on protests is rooted in a calculation that it can keep a Mideast presence by propping up its last remaining ally in the region -- and has nothing to lose if it fails.
The......
2012-01-29 01:13:15
Air Force was close to pulling off arguably the greatest win in program history.
Then, just like that, UNLV stole it away.
Chace Stanback made a steal of Todd Fletcher's pass with 2 seconds remaining in overtime to help No. 12 UNLV hold off Ai......
2012-01-28 22:34:05
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown released his military service record Saturday documenting the more than three decades he has served in the Army National Guard.
The records include his promotions, awards and officer evaluation reports, which offer high praise of Brown's ser......
2012-01-28 22:08:59
Chinese President Hu Jintao is stressing the ruling Communist Party's ultimate control over China's rapidly modernizing military.
Hu's assertion came Sunday in a statement in the military's Liberation Army Daily newspaper calling on the 2.3 million-member force t......
2012-01-28 17:27:22
The U.S. Coast Guard has freed two ships trapped by ice in the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas.
Authorities say a 678-foot bulk carrier named the Manistee and its 18 crew members were encountered ice Saturday morning west of the ......
2012-01-28 17:18:11
Veterans who attended the nation's first major Iraq War parade Saturday in St. Louis said they appreciated the welcome home, even though some expected to be redeployed to Afghanistan or elsewhere in the coming months. Here are a few of their stories:
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2012-01-28 11:58:19
Sen. Bob Casey wants the Department of Veterans Affairs to review all veterans' cemeteries in Pennsylvania, after an audit found that some headstones were misplaced or missing at a cemetery in Philadelphia and five others around the country.
Casey, a Democrat, se......
2012-01-28 09:29:33
The head of a U.N. nuclear team traveling to Iran on Saturday urged the country to work with his mission on probing Tehran's alleged attempts to develop an atomic arms program, adding such cooperation is long overdue.
The unusually blunt comments by International......
2012-01-27 23:46:27
On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill site, crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 3.4 million gallons a day, an amount a million gallons higher tha......
2012-01-27 23:25:52
Kentucky's governor said Friday there will be an immediate review of ways to restore an aging traffic bridge in the western part of the state after a five-story-high cargo boat carrying space rocket parts for NASA and the Air Force slammed into it, leaving a 300-foot-wide gap in the......
2012-01-27 18:22:45
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says there will be no city parade for Iraq War veterans in the foreseeable future because of objections voiced by military officials.
The mayor said on his Friday appearance on WOR Radio officials in Washington "think a parad......
2012-01-27 18:01:44
A combat engineer at Fort Carson has been arrested and charged in the slaying of a food operations specialist in the barracks at the Colorado Army post, officials said Friday.
Sgt. Vincinte L. Jackson, 40, is being held on suspicion of premeditated murder and mur......
2012-01-27 17:39:19
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a federal law making it illegal to lie about being a war hero is constitutional and making false statements is not always protected free speech.
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the Denver-based court r......
2012-01-27 17:35:49
People exposed to radiation because of nuclear weapons testing in Nevada are being honored with a ceremony at the Utah State Capitol.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah says the testing that began in the 1950s led to cancer and other illnesses for people w......
2012-01-27 17:14:30
The defense lawyer for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday that a judge violated due process when she issued unprecedented genocide charges against Rios Montt for conduct during Guatemala's bloody civil war.
Danilo Rodriguez Galvez said Judge Carol Patr......
2012-01-27 16:54:40
An assistant U.S. Army chaplain who pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in Puerto Rico has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.
Nicolas Gonzalez Figueroa was accused in a case involving his daughter-in-law's 7-year-old girl. Gonzalez's stepson i......
2012-01-27 16:24:26
Defense attorneys for the Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage want to delay his March murder trial.
A military judge set a hearing next week to consider Maj. Nidal Hasan's (nih-DAHL' hah-SAHN') request to delay the trial.
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2012-01-27 15:41:56
The defense lawyer for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday that a Guatemalan judge violated due process when she issued unprecedented genocide charges against Rios Montt for conduct during the country's bloody civil war.
Danilo Rodriguez Galvez said Jud......
2012-01-27 14:22:38
President Hugo Chavez has been filling top posts in Venezuela's armed forces with hardline political loyalists, raising concerns among critics that the military leaders might not accept the results of this year's election if it goes against him.
The man named def......
2012-01-27 10:07:49
A general in Zimbabwe burned beyond recognition in flames a police officer says didn't seem quite like other fires. Questions over possible arson. And fire trucks arriving without water.
As witness after witness testifies in the inquest into the death of Gen. Sol......
2012-01-27 09:51:19
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday the world must quickly stop Iran from reaching the point where even a "surgical" military strike could not block it from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Amid fears that Israel is nearing a decision to attack Ir......
2012-01-27 09:02:03
This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Jan. 29, 1862: Lincoln's Special War Order No. 1.
On Jan. 30, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues Special War Order No. 1 seeking to prod federal forces into waging all-out war against secessi......
2012-01-27 07:50:13
The families of an American woman and a Danish man rescued by U.S. Navy SEALs from their Somali captors say they are grateful for all the efforts made to rescue the two.
A statement on Friday from the Danish Refugee Council on behalf of the families said that fam......
2012-01-27 07:13:36
Detractors say the F-35 stealth fighter, the costliest military plane ever, is destined to go down as one of the biggest follies in aviation history. But it may have found a savior: deep-pocketed U.S. allies hungry to add its super high-tech capabilities to their arsenal.
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2012-01-26 23:06:41
DEBORA REY,Associated PressMICHAEL WARREN,Associated Press
A former U.S. diplomat testified Thursday that American officials knew Argentina's military regime was taking babies from dead or jailed dissidents during its "dirty war" against leftists in the 1970s, and it appeared to be a systematic effort at the time.
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2012-01-26 18:21:06
President Barack Obama is courting Hispanics in politically important states, setting himself up as a champion of the crucial Latino voting bloc and as a foil to Republican candidates fighting for a share of support from the same groups.
With Latino voters voting......
2012-01-26 16:29:09
Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales and other marine life.
The environmental law firm Earth......
2012-01-26 16:09:56
The first thing the Malian soldiers heard at daybreak were the cries of "Allah Akbar" -- "God is great" -- ringing out over their camp in the lonely eastern town. Then shooting began as Tuareg rebels launched their first attack against the military in Mali since ......
2012-01-26 15:49:17
An ex-Marine from Virginia pleaded guilty Thursday and has agreed to serve a 25-year prison sentence on charges that he fired a series of overnight pot shots in 2010 at the Pentagon, the Marine Corps museum in Quantico and other military targets as part of what prosecutors called a ......
2012-01-26 14:50:09
A Maryland man pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb outside a military recruiting center in suburban Baltimore, saying he was motivated by what he saw as an American war on Islam.
Antonio Martinez entered the plea to the ch......
2012-01-26 09:57:54
A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb outside a military recruiting center in suburban Baltimore.
Antonio Martinez originally pleaded not guilty but entered a new plea Thursday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. ......
2012-01-26 07:49:31
U.S. and Filipino defense officials will discuss how to intensify joint war drills in the Philippines without re-establishing vast U.S. military bases, as America tries to reassert its presence in Asia, a Manila official said Thursday.
While America plans to stat......
2012-01-26 06:42:32
A military prosecutor says a young Jordanian activist has been found guilty of "harming the king's dignity" for burning a street poster of the monarch and has been sentenced to two years in prison.
The prosecutor says 18-year-old Odai Abu-Issa torched K......
2012-01-26 05:02:36
Anti-Western activists in southern Ukraine have protested the arrival of a U.S. Navy ship that will take part in joint military drills.
Some 100 mostly elderly protesters rallied in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol against Ukraine's cooperation with the U.S. and ......
2012-01-26 03:34:03
A Navy ship served as a Good Samaritan after a vessel carrying 10 Moroccan mariners capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Navy says sailors and Marines on the amphibious transport dock ship Mesa Verde, based in Norfolk, Va., brought the mariners aboard their shi......
2012-01-26 03:30:17
A Pakistani government official says security forces have killed at least 20 militants after coming under attack near the Afghan border.
Wajid Khan says 22 troops were also wounded in Thursday's gunbattle in the northwestern Kurram tribal region.
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2012-01-25 22:48:19
Ella Ellis scored 26 points and Jordan Springer added a career-high 18, including seven in a key second-half run that propelled Army to a 74-68 win over Holy Cross on Wednesday night.
The Black Knights (10-11, 3-3 Patriot League) have won three of their last four......
2012-01-25 21:24:15
ABDI GULED,Associated PressKATHARINE HOURELD,Associated PressROBERT BURNS,Associated Press
Held captive since last fall, an ailing American woman and a Danish man will soon be safely on their way home after a bold, dark-of-night rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs. The commandos slipped into a Somali encampment, shot and killed nine captors and whisked the hostages to freedom. ......
2012-01-25 19:21:39
A woman who needed blood while aboard a Hawaii-bound cruise ship has been taken to a hospital on the Big Island.
The Carnival Spirit arrived in Hilo on Wednesday, the day after the Coast Guard delivered six units of blood and medical supplies to help the passenge......
2012-01-25 17:32:47
An American aid worker rescued by Navy SEALs in Somalia was a student leader at her Christian grade school, attended a religious college in suburban Philadelphia and "fell in love with Africa" while doing student teaching in Nairobi.
The Rev. Don Meyer,......
2012-01-25 17:26:00
One of two aid workers rescued by Navy SEALs in Somalia attended a religious college in suburban Philadelphia and "fell in love with Africa" while doing student teaching in Nairobi, the head of the school said Wednesday.
The Rev. Don Meyer, president of......
2012-01-25 16:35:22
In a story Jan. 22 about sexual assaults at the Air Force Academy, The Associated Press reported erroneously that cadet Stephan H. Claxton was charged with abusive sexual assault. Claxton was charged with attempted abusive sexual contact, wrongful sexual contact and assault.......
2012-01-25 16:29:38
A small fishing boat lost off Massachusetts after its crew was thrown out in rough seas has been discovered near Spain more than three years later.
Scott Douglas and Rich St. Pierre were tossed off the 26-foot-long boat in August 2008 and forced to swim two hours......
2012-01-25 16:05:08
An influential member of the Saudi royal family warned Wednesday that unless the Middle East becomes a nuclear weapon-free zone, a nuclear arms race is inevitable and could include his own country, Iraq, Egypt and even Turkey.
Prince Turki Al Faisal said the five......
2012-01-25 13:28:44
A former BP employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company, claiming he was fired for airing concerns about the cleanup of Mississippi's shoreline after the Gulf oil spill.
In a federal suit filed last Friday in New Orleans, August Walter claims o......
2012-01-25 13:04:17
The Department of Defense estimates that more than 19,000 military men and women were sexually assaulted by fellow troops in 2010 while serving in the United States armed forces. At least 20 percent of servicewomen and 1 percent of men -- an estimated 500,000 troops -- have experien......
2012-01-25 12:00:13
The Libyan defense minister held talks Wednesday with tribal leaders in a town overrun by locals loyal to former leader Moammar Gadhafi, an official said.
The recapture this week of Bani Walid, 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, was the first such or......
2012-01-25 09:48:14
President Barack Obama has adopted a new strategy declaring for the first time that the United States has a national security interest to protect the nation's economic goods against terrorists, criminals and natural disasters in all corners of the globe.
The new ......
2012-01-25 08:48:58
The same U.S. Navy SEAL that killed Osama bin Laden parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Soon, nine kidnappers were dead and both hostages were freed.
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2012-01-25 08:22:00
A U.S. official says the Navy SEAL team that rescued two hostages in Somalia was the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
SEAL Team Six parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness Wednesday and rescued an American woman and a Danish man from an outdoor camp......
2012-01-25 08:17:38
When Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich finally spoke in court, he did not address the judge but instead directed his words at the Iraqi family members who survived his squad's attacks in 2005 that left 24 unarmed civilians dead.
The 31-year-old Camp Pendleton Marine apol......
2012-01-25 05:17:39
Serbia's war crimes prosecutors have denied a human rights group's claim that the country's new army chief of staff committed war crimes against civilians in Kosovo during the 1998-99 war.
The prosecutors' office said Wednesday an investigation has shown "th......
2012-01-25 01:41:02
In this town which saw 24 unarmed civilians die in a U.S. raid seven years ago, residents expressed disbelief and sadness that the Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time.
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2012-01-25 01:12:23
AP sources: US military helicopter raid into Somalia frees American and Danish hostages.......
2012-01-24 21:41:47
The lone Marine convicted in his squad's killing of two dozen unarmed civilians in one of the Iraq War's defining moments escaped jail time Tuesday after defending his order to raid homes in Haditha as a necessary act "to keep the rest of my Marines alive."
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2012-01-24 21:15:52
Text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as provided by the White House:
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests and fellow Americans:
Last month, I went to Andrews Air......
2012-01-24 18:57:06
The man who paid $176,000 for the white hearse used to transport President John F. Kennedy's body following his assassination in Dallas plans to include it in his collection of about 400 cars in Colorado.
Stephen Tebo, a collector and real estate developer from B......
2012-01-24 18:46:40
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that New York police used "terrible judgment" in showing counterterrorism trainees a documentary-style film that says Muslim extremists are masquerading as moderates to destroy America from within.
Bloomberg said pol......
2012-01-24 18:26:04
Bonnie Carroll is well-known in veterans' circles as the founder of a vast organization that provides grief counseling and help for thousands of families of fallen military members.
But it was her involvement nearly 25 years ago in a high-seas effort to rescue th......
2012-01-24 14:25:44
A review of cemeteries administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs has revealed problems with 123 gravesites, including eight cases in which people were buried in the wrong gravesite.
The other mistakes consisted primarily of headstones and markers that we......
2012-01-24 14:24:00
Military power near the strategic Strait of Hormuz could be bolstered by additional British forces, the country's defense secretary said Tuesday, as a defiant Iran shrugged off Europe's oil embargo and moved ahead with plans to hold naval exercises alongside the oil tanker shipping ......
2012-01-24 13:02:36
As of Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, at least 1,763 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP count is seven less than the Defense Department's ta......
2012-01-24 08:32:25
The United Nations' secretary-general is appealing to the world's main nuclear disarmament forum to get down to work after years of deadlock, warning it that it is "in danger of sinking."
Ban Ki-moon's message to the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament ......
2012-01-24 06:11:42
Hundreds of rebels in jungle fatigues lined up to surrender their weapons Tuesday as several local insurgent groups formally joined a cease-fire with the government in a step toward ending three decades of insurgency in northeastern India.
The 676 fighters who ha......
2012-01-24 00:06:19
A Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" in a raid that killed unarmed Iraqi women, children and elderly pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will carry no more than three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running crimina......
2012-01-23 23:52:18
EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look at how well politicians' statements adhere to the facts.......
2012-01-23 21:36:32
A Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" in a raid that killed unarmed Iraqi women, children and elderly pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will carry no more than three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running crimina......
2012-01-23 18:21:26
A look at the resolution of charges filed against Marines after the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, in Haditha in 2005, and in other cases in Hamdania and Fallujah.
Haditha:
--Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich of Meriden, C......
2012-01-23 16:43:33
The U.N. is investigating two new allegations of U.N. police abuse and "sexual exploitation" of children in Haiti, spokesman Martin Nesirky said Monday.
One case involves U.N. police officers in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, Nesirky said. They ......
2012-01-23 15:39:10
It was a raucous beginning Monday for Egypt's first democratically elected parliament in 60 years.
Islamist lawmakers added religious references to the oath of office. Liberal lawmakers improvised too, adding a pledge to protect the "revolution" that ou......
2012-01-23 15:28:49
The departure of leader Ali Abdullah Saleh for medical treatment is doing little to calm Yemen -- the opposition movement is skeptical that he'll stay away and many are looking to presidential elections as the real test of regime change.
A wave of mutinies agains......
2012-01-23 15:04:49
Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, a newspaper reported Monday, in apparent support for President Bashar Assad and open defiance of international condemnation of his regime's bloody crackdown.
The respected business daily Kommersant, citin......
2012-01-23 14:51:41
An investigative hearing has recommended that an American soldier be court-martialed over hazing that allegedly led to a fellow infantryman's suicide in Afghanistan but dismissed the most serious charge against him, the U.S. military said Monday.
Spc. Ryan Offutt......
2012-01-23 14:46:39
An investigative hearing has recommended that an American soldier be court-martialed over hazing that allegedly led to a fellow infantryman's suicide in Afghanistan but dismissed the most serious charge against him, the U.S. military said Monday.
Spc. Ryan Offutt......
2012-01-23 14:34:01
Pakistan's army on Monday formally rejected a U.S. claim that American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops last year were justified as self-defense, a stance that could complicate efforts to repair the troubled but vital relationship between the two countries.
......
2012-01-23 13:57:48
A look at where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
They are former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
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2012-01-23 13:46:27
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
They are former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
......
2012-01-23 13:38:40
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
They are former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
ABORTI......
2012-01-23 07:16:58
Mumbai police have arrested two men involved in triple bomb blasts that hit India's financial hub six months ago, a top investigator said Monday.
The men were arrested in the eastern Indian state of Bihar and were brought to Mumbai to be formally charged for thei......
