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Polanski arrested in connection with sex charge
Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said Sunday. The Academy Award-winning director pleaded guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, but fled the United States before he could be sentenced
U.S.: Drone hits Islamic Party building in Mosul
A U.S. drone crashed in northern Iraq Saturday morning, damaging the Mosul branch of the powerful Iraqi Islamic Party — the nation’s largest Sunni political party, a U.S.
Iran: Nuclear plant ‘will blind … the enemies’
Tehran’s new uranium enrichment plant will be operational soon, and “will blind the eyes of the enemies,” Iran’s semi-official news agency Fars reported Saturday, quoting a senior Iranian official. Also Saturday, the head of Iran’s atomic energy program said U.N.
U.S. calls purported sex tape ‘doctored’ and ‘smear campaign’
A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute is a “smear campaign” meant to discredit the man, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.
Suu Kyi accepts U.S. policy shift of Myanmar
Myanmar’s imprisoned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday she accepted a new shift in U.S. policy toward her country, her spokesman said
Taliban suspected of stockpiling ‘missing’ Afghan opium
Enough Afghan opium to supply world demand for two years has effectively gone missing, with the Taliban suspected of stockpiling supplies in a bid to corner the market, the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has revealed.
D.C. train crash probe prompts nationwide rail alert
Federal safety investigators said Tuesday they fear flaws found in Washington’s Metro subway system after a deadly crash this summer may endanger other transit systems, and they sent out an urgent recommendation asking that other rail operators check for similar problems.
Is there a ‘Plan B’ for U.S. efforts in Afghanistan?
In a sign that President Obama is facing growing skepticism within his own party on Afghanistan, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that the U.S. commander in Afghanistan should brief Congress on his recommendations for revising U.S military strategy
Report: U.S. general calls for more troops in Afghanistan
America’s top commander in Afghanistan warns that more troops are needed there within the next year or the nearly 8-year-old war “will likely result in failure,” according to a copy of a 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.