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Oregon man charged with helping bomber in Pakistan

Oregon man charged with helping bomber in Pakistan
By STEVEN DUBOISAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - FBI agents in Oregon have arrested a Portland city worker on allegations that he provided support to a suicide bomber who participated in a 2009 attack in Pakistan that killed about 30 people and injured another 300. U.S. Attorney Amanda

Kerry: Turkish comments complicate Mideast process

Kerry: Turkish comments complicate Mideast process
By SUZAN FRASER and MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday waded into the controversy over comments by Turkey's prime minister equating Zionism to a crime against humanity, rebuking the leader of the NATO ally by saying such remarks

Official: Kerry to rap Turkey PM for remark

Official: Kerry to rap Turkey PM for remark
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A senior American official said Friday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will take Turkey's prime minister to task for "particularly offensive" comments he made this week equating Zionism with a crime against humanity. Speaking aboard

Official: Kerry to rap Turkey PM for remark

Official: Kerry to rap Turkey PM for remark
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A senior American official said Friday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will take Turkey's prime minister to task for "particularly offensive" comments he made this week equating Zionism with a crime against humanity. Speaking aboard

Pakistani Shiites protest after bombings kill 120

Pakistani Shiites protest after bombings kill 120
By ABDUL SATTARAssociated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Shiites in a southwestern Pakistani city hit by a brutal terror attack refused to bury their dead Friday in protest, demanding that the government do something to protect them from what has become a barrage of bombings and shootings against

Car bombing targeting Shiites in Pakistan kills 19

Car bombing targeting Shiites in Pakistan kills 19
By ABDUL SATTARAssociated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims killed 19 people in southwest Pakistan, officials and eyewitnesses said. Earlier Sunday, 21 tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were found shot dead in

Prosecutors: Fla. man planned NY terror bombing

Prosecutors: Fla. man planned NY terror bombing
By CURT ANDERSONAP Legal Affairs Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Pakistani-born man wanted to avenge the deaths of U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan by blowing up a New York City landmark but lacked the money and materials to carry out the plan, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday. Assistant U.

Syrian chaos deepens as rebels, Palestinians fight

Syrian chaos deepens as rebels, Palestinians fight
By BARBARA SURKAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - New chaos engulfed Syria's civil war as Palestinian supporters and opponents of the embattled regime were swept up Monday in intense fighting in Damascus, while rival rebel groups clashed over control of a Turkish border crossing. The rare

Suicide attack kills 41 at Afghan mosque

Suicide attack kills 41 at Afghan mosque
By AMIR SHAHAssociated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a mosque packed with senior regional officials in northern Afghanistan on a major Muslim holiday Friday, killing 41 people. The officials escaped unhurt, and many of the dead were soldiers and

Persecuted Hazaras flee Pakistan; some die trying

Persecuted Hazaras flee Pakistan; some die trying
By KATHY GANNONAssociated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - As he knelt in prayer to mark one of Islam's holiest days, Ali Raza Qurban saw a childhood friend and dozens of others die in a suicide attack on their Shiite mosque. Sunni militants were again targeting minority ethnic Hazaras in this