A federal judge has dismissed all charges against security contractors from the former Blackwater in connection with the 2007 deaths of civilians in a Baghdad, Iraq.
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The office of a reformist Iranian member of parliament burned Tuesday night, and a reformist Web site said the act was the work of extremists.
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A U.S. intelligence official vowed to avenge a suspected terrorist attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of seven CIA employees.
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A 43-year-old man, pictured above, believed to have killed five people at a shopping mall near Helsinki has been found dead, Finnish police say.
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Moscow police have detained a number of anti-government opposition demonstrators following an unsanctioned protest in a downtown square just hours before the New Year.
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A man described as “one of al Qaeda’s most dangerous members” was arrested in Yemen, the Yemeni military, an embassy official and state-run news agency Saba said.
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Somali authorities said Thursday that a man arrested last month trying to board a commercial airliner in the country’s capital was not carrying chemicals that could have caused an explosion, as an African Union official said.
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Two French journalists and an Afghan translator have been kidnapped by “enemies of the government” in Afghanistan, a military official said Thursday.
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A missile strike targeted a house in northwest Pakistan believed to be housing Islamic militants late Thursday, the latest in a string of suspected U.S. drone attacks on the region, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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Israeli police were questioning a relative of the late Jewish extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane in its probe of a Palestinian mosque firebombing in the West Bank earlier this month.
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