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US missions stormed in Yemen, stoned in Egypt film protests
Demonstrators stormed the US embassy in Yemen, leading to clashes in which four people were killed, while protesters stoned Washington's mission in Cairo as anger spread over a US-produced film mocking Islam.
14 September 2012
Canada condemns deadly attack on US mission in Libya
Canada on Wednesday strongly condemned an attack in Libya that claimed the lives of a US ambassador and three other Americans.
14 September 2012
US says Libya attack was Islamist militant plot
The United States suspects a deadly attack on a US consulate in Libya was a well-planned assault by militants instead of a rampaging mob.
13 September 2012
Judge refuses to televise Guantanamo trial
A US military judge has turned down a defense request to televise the war crimes tribunal of the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a deadly attack on a US warship in 2000.
13 September 2012
US vulnerable to long-range missile attack
The US could be vulnerable to attack from long-range ballistic missiles unless the government overhauls the country's "fragile" missile defense system.
13 September 2012
Obama praises 9/11 unity on low-key anniversary
President Barack Obama lauded American unity Tuesday as the country marked a somber but low-key anniversary of the 9/11 attacks under crisp blue skies reminiscent of the fateful day 11 years ago.
12 September 2012
One dead as Islamists storm US missions in Libya, Egypt
An armed mob protesting a film deemed offensive to Islam attacked the US consulate in Benghazi Tuesday killing a US official, hours after angry Islamists stormed Washington's embassy in Cairo.
12 September 2012
Iraq fugitive VP gets death term on day of carnage
Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a top critic of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, was convicted of murder, sentenced to the gallows.
11 September 2012
Wave of attacks kills 88 in Iraq
A wave of more than 30 attacks across Iraq killed 88 people and wounded more than 400 on Saturday and Sunday, security and medical sources said, with the security forces and markets among the targets.
11 September 2012
Nigeria Islamists claim phone company fires, threaten media
Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram on Thursday claimed a set of fires at telecom masts across the north, while threatening journalists with the Voice of America radio network.
08 September 2012
US suspends Afghan police recruit training
US special forces in Afghanistan have suspended training for about 1,000 Afghan police recruits to vet existing members, the military said Sunday, after a surge in insider attacks on NATO.
03 September 2012
Death penalty confirmed for Mumbai attacks gunman
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed the death sentence handed down to Mohammed Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.
31 August 2012
Israeli airstrike targets Hamas camps in Gaza
Israeli aircraft attacked three Hamas training camps in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, causing no injuries, eyewitnesses in the enclave said.
28 August 2012
17 beheaded in bloody day across Afghanistan
Seventeen civilians were beheaded, 10 Afghan soldiers killed and two NATO troops shot dead in a new insider attack in a bloody few hours across Afghanistan.
28 August 2012
Rebels killed at least 24 South Sudan soldiers: officials
Rebels in South Sudan's Jonglei state have killed at least 24 soldiers, with several others missing or wounded, in the latest outbreak of violence in the troubled region, officials said Sunday.
27 August 2012
LL Cool J leaves intruder with broken bones
An alleged burglar was left with a broken nose, jaw and ribs after US rapper-actor LL Cool J confronted the intruder in the kitchen of his Los Angeles home.
25 August 2012
Israel arrests teen girls over hate attack on Palestinians
Jerusalem police arrested two 15-year-old girls on Monday, bringing to seven the number of Jewish teenagers arrested in connection with a brutal hate attack on young Palestinians last week.
22 August 2012
Attacks in Iraq killed 409 people in Ramadan: AFP tally
Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed at least 409 people and wounded 975 during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
21 August 2012
Kyrgyz border guard kills five near Kazakhstan
A Kyrgyz soldier stationed near the Central Asian state's border with Kazakhstan shot dead four of his colleagues and the wife of one of them on Monday before fleeing in a car.
21 August 2012
Insiders focus of US military chief's Afghan trip
The top US military officer Martin Dempsey flew Sunday to Afghanistan to hold talks with senior commanders amid a spate of attacks by Afghan soldiers on their NATO counterparts.
20 August 2012