Nigeria: Gun battle at prison holding extremists
| Gunmen launched a massive attack Tuesday night against a northern Nigerian prison holding suspected members of a radical Muslim sect, authorities said. |
34 rescued from China oil platform accident
| Emergency teams with helicopters rescued 34 workers Wednesday from an oil drilling platform that was leaning dangerously in the East China Sea after a storm, and searched for two others still missing, officials said. |
Gunmen burst into factory in Honduras, kill 15
| Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said. |
Iraqi solder kills 2 Americans, wounds 9
| An Iraqi soldier kills two U.S. soldiers and wounds nine more at an Iraqi military base. These are the first U.S. servicemen to die since the official end of combat operations in Iraq. |
UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo
| The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens. |
Newsweek: A look inside al-Qaida
| Nine years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s network remains a shadowy, little-understood enemy. The truth, as revealed by one of its fighters, is both more and less troubling than we think. |
Bahamas: Human remains found in shark's belly
| Bahamian police said Tuesday they are trying to identify human remains found in the stomach of a tiger shark caught off the Exuma islands. |
Big French protests test Sarkozy on pensions
French trade unions mount a show of strength with strikes and massive street protests against unpopular pension reforms pushed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Sex, violence, Islam: Syrian soap raises drama
Syrian drama aired on state TV has sparked intense debate between critics who say it distorts Islam's image and supporters who say it's a realistic portrayal.
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Skin infections pose risk to Chilean miners
Rescuers have sent down antibiotics and ointments and were working Tuesday to blast cool, dry air to 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground for more than a month.
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China calls in Japan envoy over boat collision
| Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan's ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands and Tokyo arrested the boat's captain. |
Newsweek: Why Bin Laden still matters
| Bin Laden remains important as the guiding icon that is drawing people to jihad. Yet U.S. intelligence agencies have not had any “actionable intelligence” about his location since he disappeared in mid-December 2001 after the battle of Tora Bora. Informed hypotheses put him in or around Pakistan’s tribal regions, but these are only educated guesses. |
Pastor: We're 'still determined' to burn Qurans
The leader of a small Florida church says he is determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.
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Iran woman's stoning suspended after global outcry
| Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world. |
6 killed in 2 separate bomb attacks in Baghdad
| Iraqi police and health officials say at least six people have been killed and 35 wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad. |
Airliner lands in Russian forest after power fails
Russian aviation investigators have launched a probe into the emergency landing of a passenger jet that rolled into a forest without hurting anyone.
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Gunmen free up to 800 inmates from Nigeria prison
| Heavily armed gunmen attacked a prison in the central Nigerian city of Bauchi late on Tuesday, freeing as many as 800 inmates including suspected members of a militant Islamic sect, police said Wednesday. |
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