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Pakistan seeks identity of American suspect (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:10 PM PST

This image from video released by IntelCenter Sunday, March 7, 2010, shows Adam Gadahn, featured in a video posted Sunday, coincidentally the day that his arrest by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi was announced.  In the video the 31-year-old American al-Qaida spokesman called for Muslim violence, praising the U.S. Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas, as a role model for other Muslims. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)AP - Intelligence officials are trying to establish the identity of an American militant suspect arrested in Pakistan, but doubts grew Monday that he is al-Qaida's U.S.-born spokesman.


Earthquake hits eastern Turkey; at least 41 dead (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:38 AM PST

A man points at a seismic chart indicating the registered tremors of a powerful earthquake. At least 39 people have been killed in an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale that struck the eastern Turkish province of Elazig, the local governor has said.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AP - A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday, killing at least 41 people and knocking down houses in at least six small villages, the government said.


Front-runners rule at predictable Oscars (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:46 PM PST

Kathryn Bigelow accepts the Oscar for best achievement in directing for AP - On a night when so many changes were intended to shake up the Oscar ceremony, the winners themselves were pretty predictable, with "The Hurt Locker" taking six awards including best picture.


Chile quake survivors suffer cold, rainy night (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:11 AM PST

A painting of late Pope John Paul II sits on display where a family camps outside their damaged home in Talcahuano, Chile, Sunday, March 7, 2010.  An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile on Feb. 27, causing widespread damage. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - A strong rain on a chilly night added to the misery Monday of survivors of Chile's terrible earthquake and tsunami, many of whom live in tents and improvised shelters as continuing aftershocks threaten to collapse what's left of their homes.


Blast hits police building in Pakistan, 12 dead (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:39 AM PST

A nurse stands over a girl who was injured by a suicide bomb blast as she is being treated at Jinnah hospital in Lahore March 8, 2010. A suicide car bomb attack on a police intelligence unit in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 11 people and wounded about 60 on Monday during the morning rush hour, officials said.  REUTERS/Imran Sheik  (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS)AP - A suicide car bomber struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Monday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 61 more including women taking children to school, officials said.


US defense chief lands in Afghanistan for meetings (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:42 PM PST

File photo of soldiers from the Afghan National Army stopping a car to search people, as a Canadian soldier (C) watches, at a security checkpoint in Kandahar province. A roadside bomb attack has blown up a car in a remote southwestern province of Afghanistan, killing 10 civilians, the interior ministry said Monday.(AFP/File/John D Mchugh)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan early Monday as coalition forces continue to restore order in the town of Marjah, the first major test of the U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency strategy since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 new American troops to blunt the Taliban's momentum.


White House tweeting spreads president's message (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:35 AM PST

FILE - In this July 7, 2008, file photo then-Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., checks his BlackBerry in St. Louis, Mo. Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of Obama's record, White House and administration officials are increasingly communicating through Twitter, the popular social network that operates as a Web-based clearing house for public statements on subjects as broad as the federal budget and as narrow as personal grocery lists. It's similar to a bulletin board where anyone can post short notes and users cull the pieces they see by choosing to 'follow' individuals' account.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - (pound sign)wanttospinWHreporters?


SoCal teen's skeletal remains found in remote area (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:43 AM PST

FILE - This undated file image provided by the Dubois family shows Amber Dubois. Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of Dubois, a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school, have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dubois family, File) NO SALESAP - When 17-year-old Chelsea King went missing last month San Diego, Maurice Dubois had a sinking feeling that his 14-year-old daughter had fallen victim to the same killer.


ABC returns to Cablevision, but talks go on (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:45 AM PST

A Cablevision sign is seen in New York, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Cablevision subscribers were scrambling Sunday to hook up antennas or find live TV on the Internet in order to watch the Academy Awards after ABC's parent company Walt Disney Co. switched off its signal in a dispute over fees. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Cablevision and ABC were negotiating a deal Monday that tentatively ended a dispute over fees and restored millions of viewers' access to the Academy Awards telecast in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the broadcast began.


NASCAR drivers Edwards, Keselowski still feuding (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:23 AM PST

Brad Keselowski (12) flips after being nudged by Carl Edwards, top, during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Kobalt Tools 500 auto race at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., Sunday, March 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Joe Sebo)AP - Carl Edwards was 156 laps off the lead when he apparently decided it was time to settle a score with Brad Keselowski.


Iraq counts votes after election marred by violence (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:25 AM PST

An elderly man with an inked finger flashes a victory sign after he voted at a polling station in Sadr City, northeastern Baghdad, March 7, 2010. REUTERS/Kahtan al-MesiaryReuters - Iraqi authorities counted votes on Monday, a day after a parliamentary election that Islamist militants tried to disrupt with attacks that killed 38 people.


Suspect arrested in Pakistan not Gadahn: officials (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:44 AM PST

American al Qaeda militant Adam Gadahn speaks in this video grab from an Internet video posted October 4, 2008. REUTERS/IntelCenter/Handout.Reuters - Pakistani security agents denied on Monday that an American al Qaeda spokesman wanted in the United States for treason had been arrested, saying there had been confusion over the identity of a detained suspect.


Coming to Israel, Biden flags U.S. support vs Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:27 PM PST

Reuters - The Obama administration has boosted U.S. defense ties to Israel and will close ranks with its ally against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran, Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday ahead of a trip to Israel.

Cablevision gets ABC back in time for Oscars (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 06:58 PM PST

Reuters - Cablevision Systems Corp customers were able to watch the live broadcast of the Oscars on Sunday after the cable company reached a last-minute deal to return WABC-TV to air in a dispute over fees.

Gates looks to broader Afghan offensive (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PST

A U.S. Marine patrols next to a soldier of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in the town of Now Zad in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, March 7, 2010. REUTERS/Shamil ZhumatovReuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Kabul on Monday to press for details from his generals on upcoming plans to broaden the fight against the Taliban and warned of "very hard days" ahead.


Gunfire at Yemen hospital, clashes in south (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:45 AM PST

Smoke rises from a room at the top of al-Jumhori hospital in Sanaa March 7, 2010, as security forces clash with an al Qaeda suspect who tried to shoot his way out of the hospital where he was being treated under guard on Sunday. administrator said. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - An al Qaeda suspect tried to shoot his way out of hospital in Yemen's capital on Sunday and killed a guard, while security forces and separatists clashed in the south of the country with five wounded.


Bomb attack on Pakistani police kills 11 (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:50 PM PST

Pakistan's Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik speaks during a news conference in Islamabad March 9, 2009. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodReuters - A suicide car bomb attack on a police intelligence unit in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 11 people and wounded about 60 on Monday during the morning rush hour, officials said.


Greece won't need aid, central bank chief tells paper (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 07:14 PM PST

Greece's Central Bank Governor George Provopoulos delivers a speech at annual shareholders meeting in Athens April 15, 2009. REUTERS/Yiorgos KarahalisReuters - Greece will not need foreign help to deal with its debt problems, central bank governor George Provopoulos said in a German newspaper interview released Monday.


Powerful car bomb kills 11 in Pakistan's Lahore (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:43 AM PST

A Pakistani policeman stands beside the wreckage of a car blasted in a bomb attack in Lahore on March 8. The blast devastated offices in the city used to interrogate suspected militants, killing 11 people in the latest strike on the country's teaming cultural capital.(AFP/Arif Ali)AFP - A car bomb devastated Pakistani offices used to interrogate suspected militants on Monday, killing 11 people in the latest attack to strike the country's teaming cultural capital of Lahore.


Strong Turkey quake kills 41 (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:30 PM PST

A man points at a seismic chart indicating the registered tremors of a powerful earthquake. At least 41 people have been killed in an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale that struck the eastern Turkish province of Elazig, the local governor has said.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AFP - Rescuers struggled to dig survivors from under the rubble after a strong quake struck eastern Turkey early Monday, killing at least 41 people and injuring dozens more, officials said.


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