Law enforcement officers stand outside another residence of Amine El Khalifi in Arlington, Va., Friday, Feb., 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Capitol bomb plot arrest capped yearlong probe
read more The State
WASHINGTON - Within the last week, authorities say, Amine El Khalifi's plan was proceeding as hoped: An al-Qaida associate handed him an automatic weapon to kill security officers inside the U.S. Capitol. A bomb-laden vest would detonate the building. He'd die as a martyr. But there was a problem: The explosives were inert, the gun inoperable and...

The coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried to a hearse after funeral services at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Houston died last Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the age 48.
photo: AP / Mel Evans
Whitney Houston’s voice soars at hometown funeral
read more Ohio
NEWARK, N.J.: After all the testimonials from relatives and friends, the songs from legends and pop stars, the preaching and even laughter, the raw emotion of Whitney Houston’s funeral came down to just one moment: The sound of her own voice. As the strains of her biggest record, I Will Always Love You, filled the New Hope Baptist Church at...

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, center, holds the hands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after their joint news conference at the President house in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash
Kabul hopeful of Islamabad's help in peace drive
read more Gulf News
Islamabad: Afghanistan is optimistic that regional power Pakistan will help the Kabul government advance a reconciliation process with the Taliban, the Afghan president's spokesman said yesterday. Pakistan, seen as crucial to efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, has repeatedly said it wants peace in its neighbour. Afghans, however, have...

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, Syrian anti-government protesters, some of them wearing their death shroud, march during a demonstration in Banias, Syria, Sunday, April 17, 2011. Gunmen opened fire during a funeral for a slain anti-government protester Sunday, killing at least three people on a day when tens of thousands of people took to the streets nationwide as part of an uprising against the country's authoritarian regime, witnesses and activists said.
photo: AP
Syria forces fire on funeral, China urges bloodshed end
read more Yahoo Daily News
Security forces shot dead a mourner at a huge funeral on Saturday for demonstrators killed in rare protests in the Syrian capital, as a senior Chinese envoy issued a plea for the bloodshed to end. The Damascus funerals were for four people, two of them teenagers, killed when security forces fired on protesters in the capital's Mazzeh district,...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague faces a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011. Lavrov started a two-day visit to Britain on Monday to improve relations still marred by a succession of Cold War-style scandals, despite a landmark oil deal that underlined the potential of economic ties.
photo: AP / Ben Stansall, pool
Hague fears 'new cold war' against Iran
read more Belfast Telegraph
Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the world into "a new Cold War" with the Middle East, Foreign Secretary William Hague warned today. He predicted a nuclear arms race among rival Middle Eastern states that would carry the dangers without the safety mechanisms of the old rivalry between the West and the USSR. In an interview with The Daily...

U.S. Park Police push Occupy DC demonstrators across a section of McPherson Square in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012.
photo: AP / Cliff Owen
OWSM and Low Intensity Conflict
read more WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Standing on the periphery of the massive protest in front of the Presidential Palace, one could sense unbridled tension and fear. Suddenly, and as troops and security forces surrounded the demonstrators, some 30,000 strong, a few of the protesters started to flee. Others, about 300, rushed to the...

File - Press Conference by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
photo: NATO /
NATO won’t intervene in Syria: Rasmussen
read more Zeenews
Ankara: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Western alliance had no intention of intervening in Syria even in the event of a UN mandate to protect civilians, and urged Middle East countries to find a way to end the spiralling violence. Rasmussen said on Friday he also rejected the possibility of providing logistical support for...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he deliver his speech near the Azadi (freedom) tower at a rally to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the country's pro-Western monarchy and brought Islamic clerics to power, Tehran, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Iran offers concession as new sanction nears
read more Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON – The United States and the European Union signaled Friday that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program could soon resume for the first time in more than a year, even as a telecommunications network vital to the global banking industry prepared to expel Iranian banks. While senior U.S. and European officials stopped short of...

Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhai Jun, left, speaks to reporters following a meeting with Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, right, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Feb. 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Chinese diplomat in Syria for talks on unrest
read more Al Jazeera
Syrian government forces have continued a crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, despite the arrival of a Chinese diplomat for talks on the unrest. Zhai Jun, China's vice foreign minister, arrived in Damascus late on Friday, and is due to hold talks with the Syrian president on resolving the country's crisis. Protests...

Another residence of Amine El Khalifi in Arlington, Va., Friday, Feb., 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Terror suspect arrested near US Capitol
read more Sydney Morning Herald
AP A 29-year-old Moroccan man, who believed he was working with al-Qaeda, has been arrested near the US Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by undercover operatives. Amine El Khalifi was taken into custody on Friday with an inoperable gun and inert explosives, according to a counterterrorism...


Mr Hollande, holding a substantial but narrowing lead in the polls nine weeks before the first...
By Gilad Atzmon Racism is a big word with some very bad connotations. Being accused of racism...

File - Iranian top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili,smile after Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki signed an agreement to ship most of Iran's enriched uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel swap deal, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 17, 2010.
They said Tehran had put finishing touches for the installation of thousands of new-generation centrifuges at the cavernous bunker - machines that can produce enriched uranium much more quickly and efficiently than its present machines. While saying...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
United States Senate candidate Rand Paul at a rally in Erlanger, Kentucky, along with Texas Congressman Ron Paul and his son, Will Paul.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says the U.S. is "slipping into a fascist system" dominated by big government and big businesses. The Texas congressman held a fiery rally Saturday night across the street from a...
photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop in Clive, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012.
KASIE HUNT Associated Press= SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney parted ways with his Arizona campaign co-chairman after allegations of misconduct made by a man with whom Romney's co-chairman previously had a relationship. Pima County Sheriff Paul...
photo: AP / Chris Carlson
US Navy 081008-N-1082Z-045 Pirates leave the merchant vessel MV Faina for the Somali shore Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 while under observation by a U.S. Navy ship
David Cameron and other world leaders are expected to announce the moves at a meeting in London on Thursday. The aim of the gathering will be to hammer out a plan to improve stability in Somalia, which for more than 20 years has been lawless and...
photo: Public Domain / BotMultichillT
Rev. Jesse Jackson arrives at the New Hope Baptist Church for funeral services for singer Whitney Houston in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.
NEWARK, N.J.Fans and celebrities are now streaming into the neighborhood surrounding the New Hope Baptist Church where pop icon Whitney Houston will be memorialized today in the church where she was discovered. “She had such a...
photo: AP / Mel Evans
New British Foreign Minister William Hague gestures during a news conference with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Friday, May 14, 2010 in Washington.
Foreign secretary said the world would face most serious round of nuclear proliferation since invention of atomic bomb Foreign secretary William Hague has warned of the dangers of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Photograph: Gianluigi...
photo: AP / Evan Vucci
Workers install a pre-election billboard showing a portrait of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.
A traffic light in Moscow is covered with a transparent image of Russian Pr... Thousands of supporters of Vladimir Putin attended rallies across Russia on Saturday to back his bid for the presidency, trying to outdo mass nationwide protests staged by...
photo: AP / Musa Sadulayev

Chairman King on CNN
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Chairman King on CNN "The Situation Room" on suicide bomb plot on US Capitol
The State 19 Feb 2012, WASHINGTON - Within the last week, authorities say, Amine El Khalifi's plan was proceeding as hoped: An al-Qaida associate handed him an automatic weapon to kill security officers inside the U.S. Capitol. A bomb-laden vest would detonate the building. He'd die as a martyr. But there was a problem: The explosives were inert, the gun inoperable and...

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WHITNEY HOUSTON FUNERAL: Kevin Costner fights back tears and gets standing ovation; updated 18 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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WHITNEY HOUSTON FUNERAL: Kevin Costner fights back tears and gets standing ovation
Ohio 19 Feb 2012, NEWARK, N.J.: After all the testimonials from relatives and friends, the songs from legends and pop stars, the preaching and even laughter, the raw emotion of Whitney Houston’s funeral came down to just one moment: The sound of her own voice. As the strains of her biggest record, I Will Always Love You, filled the New Hope Baptist Church at...

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Backdoor Rebels: 'Iran & Co. send message of defiance to US'; updated 18 Feb 2012; published 17 Feb 2012
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Backdoor Rebels: 'Iran & Co. send message of defiance to US'
Gulf News 18 Feb 2012, Islamabad: Afghanistan is optimistic that regional power Pakistan will help the Kabul government advance a reconciliation process with the Taliban, the Afghan president's spokesman said yesterday. Pakistan, seen as crucial to efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, has repeatedly said it wants peace in its neighbour. Afghans, however, have...

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Syrian forces shoot at funeral crowd; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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Syrian forces shoot at funeral crowd
Yahoo Daily News 18 Feb 2012, Security forces shot dead a mourner at a huge funeral on Saturday for demonstrators killed in rare protests in the Syrian capital, as a senior Chinese envoy issued a plea for the bloodshed to end. The Damascus funerals were for four people, two of them teenagers, killed when security forces fired on protesters in the capital's Mazzeh district,...

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Foreign Secretary William Hague gives Iran diplomats 48 hours to leave Britain; updated 06 Feb 2012; published 30 Nov 2011
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Foreign Secretary William Hague gives Iran diplomats 48 hours to leave Britain
Belfast Telegraph 18 Feb 2012, Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the world into "a new Cold War" with the Middle East, Foreign Secretary William Hague warned today. He predicted a nuclear arms race among rival Middle Eastern states that would carry the dangers without the safety mechanisms of the old rivalry between the West and the USSR. In an interview with The Daily...

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Budding Occupy Wall Street Movement Gives Voice to Anger Over Greed, Corporations; updated 05 Feb 2012; published 06 Oct 2011
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Budding Occupy Wall Street Movement Gives Voice to Anger Over Greed, Corporations
WorldNews.com 18 Feb 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Standing on the periphery of the massive protest in front of the Presidential Palace, one could sense unbridled tension and fear. Suddenly, and as troops and security forces surrounded the demonstrators, some 30,000 strong, a few of the protesters started to flee. Others, about 300, rushed to the...

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'Beijing will not tolerate US pressure on Syria'; updated 18 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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'Beijing will not tolerate US pressure on Syria'
Zeenews 18 Feb 2012, Ankara: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Western alliance had no intention of intervening in Syria even in the event of a UN mandate to protect civilians, and urged Middle East countries to find a way to end the spiralling violence. Rasmussen said on Friday he also rejected the possibility of providing logistical support for...

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Strait Talking: 'Iran sanctions backfire on recession-hit West'; updated 14 Feb 2012; published 05 Jan 2012
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Strait Talking: 'Iran sanctions backfire on recession-hit West'
Sacramento Bee 18 Feb 2012, WASHINGTON – The United States and the European Union signaled Friday that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program could soon resume for the first time in more than a year, even as a telecommunications network vital to the global banking industry prepared to expel Iranian banks. While senior U.S. and European officials stopped short of...

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Damascus will end it for the Assad Regime; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 19 Feb 2012
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Damascus will end it for the Assad Regime
Al Jazeera 18 Feb 2012, Syrian government forces have continued a crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, despite the arrival of a Chinese diplomat for talks on the unrest. Zhai Jun, China's vice foreign minister, arrived in Damascus late on Friday, and is due to hold talks with the Syrian president on resolving the country's crisis. Protests...

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Moroccan man arrested for trying to bomb US Capitol; updated 19 Feb 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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Moroccan man arrested for trying to bomb US Capitol
Sydney Morning Herald 18 Feb 2012, AP A 29-year-old Moroccan man, who believed he was working with al-Qaeda, has been arrested near the US Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by undercover operatives. Amine El Khalifi was taken into custody on Friday with an inoperable gun and inert explosives, according to a counterterrorism...

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Mexico drug violence claims staggering toll; updated 02 Feb 2012; published 03 Jan 2012
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Mexico drug violence claims staggering toll
BBC News 18 Feb 2012, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has said murders in the country's most violent city, Ciudad Juarez, almost halved since hitting a record in 2010, when more than 3,000 people died. Mr Calderon said job creation had been key to the fall in violence. Most of the murders were the result of a turf war between rival drug gangs....

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Senegal Election; updated 30 Jan 2012; published 30 Jan 2012
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Senegal Election
Al Jazeera 18 Feb 2012, Riot police in Senegal have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters, after the country's opposition defied a government ban to go ahead with a demonstration calling for President Abdoulaye Wade to stand down. Wade is running for a third term in office in next week's presidential election. Police used grenade launchers to throw volleys of...

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Avian Flu (1): The H5N1 virus; updated 15 Feb 2012; published 01 Apr 2007
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Avian Flu (1): The H5N1 virus
Toronto Sun 17 Feb 2012, GENEVA/LONDON - Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. Speaking after a high-level meeting of flu experts and U.S. security officials in Geneva, a WHO...

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Angela Merkel 'deeply regrets' resignation of German President Christian Wulff; updated 17 Feb 2012; published 17 Feb 2012
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Angela Merkel 'deeply regrets' resignation of German President Christian Wulff
The Guardian 17 Feb 2012, Ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel had been under increasing pressure over home loan and apparent attempt to block report in tabloid The German president, Christian Wulff, announces his resignation. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images...

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