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Britain, US funding Yemen anti-terror police unit (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:21 PM PST

FILE - A Yemeni security armored vehicle patrol in the capital San'a, Yemen, in this June 15, 2009 file photo. The British government said Sunday Jan. 3, 2010 that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama have agreed to back a counterterrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising terrorist threat from the country. (AP Photo/Mohammed al-Qadhi, File)AP - The British government said Sunday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama have agreed to back a counterterrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising terrorist threat from the country.

US official: Extremists seek new ways to attack US (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:28 PM PST

The recent failed bid to blow up a US airliner is a reminder of AP - A top counterterrorism official is warning that al-Qaida and other extremists are working to test U.S. defenses and launch an attack on American soil.

Fla. police nab man in Thanksgiving killings of 4 (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 12:05 AM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Jupiter, Fla. Police Dept. suspect Paul Michael Merhige is shown. A Florida man suspected of killing four family members in a Thanksgiving shooting was arrested Saturday Jan. 2, 2010 in the Florida Keys, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jupiter Police Dept., File)AP - A weekslong manhunt ended with the arrest of a Florida man accused of the carefully planned slayings of four relatives at a Thanksgiving dinner.

Mexico announces capture of alleged drug lord (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:29 PM PST

Members of the navy special forces sit in a truck outside the cemetery where the mother and three other family members of late Navy Master Melquisedet Angulo Cordoba are being buried in Villahermosa December 23, 2009. Drug gang hitmen shot dead on December 21 the grieving mother, brother, sister and aunt of Angulo Cordoba who died after taking part in a raid in which a notorious drug lord was killed, police said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Luis Lopez (MEXICO - Tags: MILITARY SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)AP - Mexican police have captured alleged drug lord Carlos Beltran Leyva, just two weeks after his even more powerful brother was killed in a shootout with troops — back-to-back victories in President Felipe Calderon's drug war.

2010 situation grows more difficult for Democrats (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:28 PM PST

-- FILE -- This Dec. 22, 2009 file photo shows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., right, accompanied by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., left, during a Democratic health care rallyl on Capitol Hill in Washington. An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, file)AP - An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.

Calif. pastor takes in $2.4M after donations plea (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:30 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 file photo, Pastor Rick Warren signs his book 'The Purpose of Christmas' at Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York. Evangelical pastor Rick Warren says his call for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch has brought in $2.4 million. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)AP - Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.

Cable TV standoffs threaten viewing costs, choices (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:30 PM PST

FILE - This Monday, Feb. 2, 2009 picture shows the Time Warner Center, background left, in New York. Sculptures at Columbus Circle are seen in the foreground. The Fox television network and Time Warner Cable on Friday announced an agreement in principle on a television programming deal that allows signals to continue for millions of cable subscribers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Many questions remain for cable TV viewers nationwide even after Fox and Time Warner Cable settled their noisy spat with a New Year's Day agreement.

Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:31 PM PST

This Dec. 15, 2009 photo shows members of the Muslim Hindu punk band, The Kominas, taking a cigarette break before rehearsing in Wayland, Mass. From left are guitarist Arjun Ray, drummer Imran Malik, and guitarist Shahjehan Khan. From the basement of this middle-class home tucked in the woods west of Boston, The Kominas have helped launched a small, but growing, South Asian and Middle Eastern punk rock movement that is attracting children of Muslim and Hindu immigrants and drawing scorn from some traditional Muslims who say their political, hard-edged music is 'haraam,' or forbidden. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Artwork from the Punjab state of India decorates the Ray family home. A Johann Sebastian Bach statue sits on a piano. But in the basement — cluttered with wires, old concert fliers and drawings — 25-year-old Arjun Ray is fighting distortion from his electric guitar.

Cities, counties take back corporate tax breaks (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:52 PM PST

FILE - In this May 6, 2009 file photo, teacher Carrie Cox from Andrew High School in Tinley Park, Ill., protests along with other teachers opposing Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's budget cuts and new pension plan during a rally across the street from the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. As the recession drags on, municipalities struggling to fix roads, fund schools and pay bills increasingly are rescinding tax abatements to companies that don't hire enough workers, lay them off or close up shop. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - Cash-strapped communities have a message for corporations that promised jobs in return for tax breaks: A deal's a deal.

Like Mike: Tech wins shootout after Leach fired (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:49 PM PST

Texas Tech's Adam James is seen prior to the team's Alamo Bowl NCAA college football game against Michigan State in San Antonio, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - No questions about Mike Leach. No questions about Adam James.

Obama blames al Qaeda for plane attack (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:06 PM PST

US President Barack Obama makes a statement at the Marine Base in Kaneohe, Hawaii, on December 29. Obama Saturday for the first time accused an Al-Qaeda affiliate of arming and training a young Nigerian man for a thwarted suicide mission to blow up a US airliner.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)Reuters - The Obama administration on Saturday zeroed in on al Qaeda as the driving force behind an attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas and promised again to hold accountable those involved in the failed attack.

Karzai visits south Afghanistan, rockets land nearby (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:51 AM PST

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai attends a news conference in Kabul December 20, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmad MasoodReuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited the southerly Helmand province on Saturday, where he condemned recent foreign air strikes that have killed civilians, and two rockets apparently exploded nearby.

Heavy snow brings Beijing to standstill (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST

Reuters - Heavy snow hit Beijing on Sunday, stranding thousands of passengers at the Chinese capital's main airport and casting an unusual quiet over normally busy streets as people stayed out of the freezing weather.

Bomb suspect "reached out" to UK militants: report (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:04 PM PST

Reuters - British security services knew three years ago that the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane had "multiple communications" with Islamic extremists in Britain, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, charged with trying to blow up Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day, studied in London between 2005 and 2008.

UK says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:38 PM PST

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh meets chief of the Hamas movement Khaled Meshaal (not pictured) at the Defence Complex in Sanaa December 8, 2009. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism, Britain said on Sunday.

Mexico detains brother of slain drug boss (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:30 PM PST

A police inspector examines the body identified by navy officials as belonging to drug cartel leader Arturo Beltran Leyva, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on December 16. Six Mexican forensics experts have been suspended for allegedly altering a crime scene where bloodstained banknotes were spread over the body of drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, an official said.(AFP/Agencia El Universal/File)Reuters - Mexican forces have detained the brother of a powerful drug boss killed two weeks ago in a movie-like raid that landed a key victory for President Felipe Calderon's drug war, the security ministry said on Saturday.

Danish cartoonist attacker suspected of al Qaeda ties (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:07 AM PST

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard poses in Aarhus in this September 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Preben Hupfeld/ScanpixReuters - A Somali man armed with an axe and suspected of links with al Qaeda broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused global Muslim outrage and was shot and wounded by police.

Bomb suspect may not have begun trip in Ghana (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:34 AM PST

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is shown in this booking photograph released by the U.S. Marshals Service December 28, 2009. REUTERS/US Marshals Service/HandoutReuters - A Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas Day may not have begun his journey in Ghana, a Ghanaian airport official said on Saturday.

US, Britain widen anti-terror front in Yemen (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 12:23 AM PST

Men claiming to be Al-Qaeda members arrive to address a crowd in Yemen's southern province of Abyan. The United States and Britain have agreed to finance a special counterterrorism unit in Yemen as US President Barack Obama for the first time blamed an Al-Qaeda branch in that Arab country for attacking a US airliner.(AFP/File)AFP - The United States and Britain have agreed to finance a special counterterrorism unit in Yemen as US President Barack Obama for the first time blamed an Al-Qaeda branch in that Arab country for attacking a US airliner.

Peruvian court upholds 25-year sentence for Fujimori (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 12:30 AM PST

File picture shows Peru's former president (1990-2000) Alberto Fujimori in a courtroom in Lima in September, 2009. The Peruvian Surpreme Court early Sunday unanimously confirmed a 25-year prison sentence on Fujimori(AFP/File/Raul Garcia Pereira)AFP - The Peruvian Supreme Court on Sunday unanimously upheld a 25-year prison sentence on the country's former president Alberto Fujimori, who has been convicted of massive human rights abuses.
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