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Report: Six arrested in al Qaeda plot on U.S. base in Kuwait
Kuwaiti security forces arrested six Kuwaitis linked to al Qaeda who planned to attack a U.S. military installation, the country’s state-run news agency reported Tuesday.
Coroner: Jackson’s autopsy will be withheld
Michael Jackson’s autopsy is done, but its release is on hold, as is the court case over the iconic singer’s estate. The autopsy results will not be released indefinitely because of the ongoing investigation into the singer’s death, according to authorities.
China mourns death of ex-leader’s wife, Communist stalwart
Chinese leaders Monday mourned the death of Zhuo Lin, wife of former national leader Deng Xiaoping. Zhuo, a former consultant of the Central Military Commission General Office, died July 29 at age 93 and was cremated Monday, state-run news agency Xinhua reported. She was “an excellent Communist Party of China member and time-honored loyal communist fighter,” the party said in a written statement
Now, Indonesia’s Most Wanted Terrorist is Reported Killed
It’s been a successful few days in the war on terror.
Ronnie Biggs ‘Great Train Robber’ Freed from Jail
Ronnie Biggs, the former fugitive who helped stage Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” in 1963, has been released from prison, marking the end of a criminal saga that has played out over 40 years and across four continents. Biggs and 14 other men robbed a Royal Mail train of 2.6 million pounds
Is Pakistan’s Taliban Chief Dead?
American and Pakistani officials say it looked more and more likely that the man was Baitullah Mehsud, who had a $5-million bounty on his head. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, told reporters in Islamabad on Friday Aug. 7 that, “According to my intelligence information, the news is correct
Hundreds detained after China protests
Hundreds of people have been detained in connection with ethnic riots in the northwest last month, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday. Police in Urumqi, the capital of China’s remote northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region, said they had detained 319 people in connection with the July 5 riots, according to Xinhua. The detentions came in addition to the 253 detentions announced on July 29, the news agency said
More of Air Force One’s New York photo op released
And now, the rejects. Three months after the White House released a single photograph taken during a photo op of “Air Force One” flying over New York — a flight that caused panic on the streets below — the U.S
Who is the mother of Jude Law’s baby?
On her online model profile, Samantha Burke says she is passionate about fashion and photography, and has aspirations of becoming an actress. But she’s now had to put those dreams on hold for a new project: Being mother to Jude Law’s fourth child