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Around the world, bees are dying in their millions and there’s something in this mysterious, silent tragedy that has seized public consciousness. Two missiles hit a militant hideout in the village of Damadola, in the border district of Bajaur, a Pakistani military and political officials said.
U.S. Embassy officials in Bern, Switzerland, formally submitted an extradition request for Roman Polanski to the Swiss government on Thursday night, but a lawyer for the film director said his client will continue to resist deportation.
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At least seven people were killed and nine wounded when a suicide bomber detonated at a security checkpoint near a military facility outside of the capital, Islamabad, police said.
A Rwandan accused of “complicity” in the massacre of students at the college he headed during the country’s genocide 15 years ago has been arrested in Italy, where he served as a clergyman, an international police agency said. Officers from the Italian Carabinieri and Interpol’s National Central Bureau in Rome, Italy, arrested Emmanuel Uwayezu — who had been wanted in Rwanda, the international police organization Interpol said Wednesday in a news release.
At least 30 people died and 70 were wounded in shelling on a marketplace in the Somali capital of Mogadishu Thursday, according to journalists and emergency services.
Gunmen opened fire on a military vehicle in Islamabad on Thursday, killing an army brigadier and a soldier, officials said.
Israel and the United States commenced what is believed to be their largest ever joint military exercises in missile defense Wednesday. The long-planned, two-week air defense exercise has been dubbed Juniper Cobra 10 and will involve participation of 1,000 personnel from the U.S.
The Supreme Court tentatively agreed Tuesday to accept an appeal from a group of native Chinese Muslims who had asked to be released into the United States from American military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The prison at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, is an ever more embarrassing problem for President Barack Obama.