AP - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.

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AP - A 31-year-old mother from Colorado was one of seven Muslims arrested this week in Ireland in an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, the woman’s parents said Friday.

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Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot
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AP - Americans are recovering their shrunken wealth — gradually. Household net worth rose last quarter, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios. But the gain was slight.

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Slowly, Americans are regaining their lost wealth
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AP - House Democrats on Thursday stopped a Republican bid to force an investigation of Democratic leaders aimed at determining whether they covered up sexual harassment allegations against ex-Rep. Eric Massa

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AP - Ever since al-Qaida attacked the United States in 2001, U.S.

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Al-Qaida seen eyeing less complex attacks on US
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AFP - Strong aftershocks and a tsunami alert rocked Chile and rattled nerves Thursday as rightwing billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president of the quake-hit nation.

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AP - Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people.

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AP - The killers showed no mercy: They didn’t spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes.

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Hundreds slaughtered in Nigeria religious violence
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AFP - A powerful earthquake buried sleeping villagers in eastern Turkey early on Monday, claiming at least 51 lives and leaving scores injured, officials said.

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Strong quake kills 51 in eastern Turkey
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AP - An American member of al-Qaida was picked up in a raid in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, Pakistani officials said Monday, but reversed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network’s U.S.-born spokesman.

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