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May 9th, 2011

Uganda: Unarmed Protesters Killed by Security Forces, Rights Group Says Thai Premier Calls for Peace After King Decrees July 3 Election
China Bars Writer From Overseas Travel In Burkina Faso, Leader Keeps Cool Under Fire
Cuba's Government Outlines Steps Toward a Freer Market With Help From NATO, Libyan Rebels Gain Ground
Time Running Out to Prepare Afghan Security Forces Navy Plan to Allow Same-Sex Marriage on Bases Draws Opposition
US Braced for Fights With Pakistanis in bin Laden Raid Colombia Extradites Reputed Drug Kingpin to Venezuela, Where He Has Implicated Officials
Mexican Navy Says 13 Killed in Shootout Between Marines, Drug Gang on Lake Near US Border Cuba Denies Beating Dissident Who Died After Protest, Accuse Opposition of Unscrupulous Lies
Women in Uganda Lead Country's Latest Political Rally Over Poor Governance, Human Rights 1st Runner-Up's Party Challenges Results of Nigerian Presidential Election, Wants Fresh Vote
UK Rights Group Warns of Legal Trouble for US, UK Over Drone Strikes in Pakistan Iran's Ahmadinejad Promises Response to EU Over Possibility of More Talks on Nuclear Program
After Weeks of Deadlock, Heavy Fighting Awakens Key Front Line in Libya's Rebel-Held East Rebel-Held Border Crossing From Libya to Tunisian Turns Into Conduit for Wounded, Refugees
Fatah-Hamas Pact Called New Chance for Peace Monday: 5 Iraqis Killed, 20 Wounded
Aid Agencies: Refu­gee Boat Carrying Hundreds Sank Off Libyan Coast US Commander in Eastern Afghanistan Predicts Little Short-Term Change
Pakistan Says It Will Grant US Access to bin Laden's Wives Left Behind After Raid Al-Qaeda in Iraq Backs Terror Group's No. 2 Leader Al-Zawahri After bin Laden Death
At Iraq's Hospitals, a Man-Made Emergency McKeon Releases Details About National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
Man Admits Plotting to Blow Up Federal Courthouse in Springfield, Gets 28-Year Sentence MoD Tries to Block Payout for Soldier Accidentally Killed by Black Watch in Iraq
Feinstein Rethinks Pakistan Aid Us-Pakistan Flare-Up Threatens Troop Supply Route
Pakistan Grants US Access to bin Laden Widows White House: No One Receiving Reward Money for Finding Osama bin Laden
How Pakistan Helped the US Get Osama Qatar's PM Holds Secret Meeting With Netanyahu: Israel Radio
US Troops Were Yards From Osama bin Laden House in 2008 Oil Bounces Above 100 Dollars on Weaker Greenback, Syria Unrest
West Must Back Pakistan Against Militants: NATO Chief bin Laden Bump Fades Already: Afghan War Support and Obama Job Approval Head Down Again
US in Limbo Over Iraq Troop Presence Iran Deputy FM to Visit Cairo for Talks on Fresh Ties
Gadhafi Government Courted Academics, Former US Officials With Trips to Libya Libyan Rebels Advance on Misrata
Official Says Syria Has the Upper Hand Over Protests Syria 'Tortures Activists to Access Their Facebook Pages'
Clashes on Kenya-Ethiopia Border Kill Over 30 CIA Won't Withdraw Spy Chief in Pakistan
Pakistan PM Rejects Accusations Over bin Laden Four Dead as Security Forces Fire on Yemen Protest
Christians Protest Against Egyptian Violence Yemeni Government Cracks Down on Protest in South
Blindfolded, Beaten and Tortured: Grim New Testimony Reveals Fate of Bahrain's Persecuted Doctors Ship 'With 600 People Aboard' Sinks as Refugees Flee From Libya
Mexico Marches Over Deadly Cost of War on Drugs In Washington, Defending Aid to Pakistan Not Easy
US: bin Laden Kill Does Not Change Gitmo Plans Operation a Big Blow to Sovereignty, Warns Sharif
Pakistan Warns of 'Matching Response' if Country's Nuclear Assets Attacked Pakistan PM Warns of 'Full Force' Response to Future US Raids
Experts Describe the Secret, Stealthy Chopper From the bin Laden Mission Middle East: 'Arab Spring' Has Yet to Alter Region's Strategic Balance
Anti-Aircraft Missile Smuggler Sentenced to 25 Years India Supreme Court Suspends Controversial Ayodhya Mosque Ruling
Nigerian Islamist Sect Rejects Amnesty Offer Biden and Clinton Lecture China on Human Rights
Iran's Ahmadinejad Survives Worst Storm of His Presidency Pakistan Suspected of Retaliating After US Raid
Peres: Abbas 'Still Partner' Despite Hamas Deal Russia Flexes Nuclear Muscle on Victory Day
South Korea Open to Summit With North if Conditions Met Bosnia Facing Worst Crisis in 15 Years
North, South Sudan to Remove Abyei Forces: UN Attorney General Vows to Close Guantanamo
NATO Says Insurgency Weakened NATO Hits Libyan Arms Depot as West Faces Dilemma
Assad Tightens Grip on Syria's Restive Third City Lawyers for USS Cole Bomb Suspect File Court Case
Iran President Says Open to Dialogue Al-Qaeda in Iraq Claims Hilla Attack, Vows Revenge
Group Threatens Legal Trouble for US Over Drones Pakistan's Terror Ties at Center of Upcoming Chicago Trial
Yemen Opposition Sets Two-Day Deadline for Gulf Plan Syrian Troops Round Up Thousands in Baniyas
Al-Qaeda 'Making a Comeback', Security Forces in Iraq Warn South Korean Leader Urges North to Give Up Nuclear Program
German Court Shows Leniency to Al-Qaeda Man After Full Confession Hundreds of Egyptian Copts Protest After Violent Sectarian Clashes
Security Forces Shoot Dead Two Teachers in Yemen Protest Three Killed, Dozens Injured in Yemeni Protests
Border Guard Killed in Clashes With Traffickers in Nineveh Al-Sadr in Doha to Discuss Bahrain's Crisis
Bosnia Facing 'Serious Crisis' Hundreds of Detentions in Syrian Crackdown
Ahmadinejad: Iran to Attend New Nuclear Talks in Turkey EU Gives Green Light to Syria Arms Embargo, Sanctions
US: Israel's Decision to Withhold PA Funds 'Premature' Pakistan Dismisses bin Laden Accusations
WikiLeaks: US Saw Israeli Firm's Rise in Latin America as a Threat Cubans to Be Allowed More Freedom to Travel Abroad
Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking Pakistan Spy Agency's Alleged Role in Mumbai Terrorist Attacks to Be Revealed
Spate of US Plane Incidents After bin Laden Death Technology in US Helicopter Not So Secret: Expert
Osama bin Laden Mission Agreed in Secret 10 years Ago by US and Pakistan Egypt: Religious Conflict Becomes the Revolution’s Biggest Enemy
Pakistan TV Unmasks Supposed Top CIA Agent but Reportedly Gets It Wrong Supplies Running Low in Besieged Libyan Rebel City
US Weighs Debt Relief for Post-Mubarak Egypt UN: 68 Bodies Found in Soccer Field in Ivory Coast
Combat Along Key Frontline; Supplies Reach Misrata European Union Imposes Arms Embargo on Syria
German Jihad: Homegrown Terror Takes on New Dimensions Putin May Set Stage for 2012 Return as Leader of All-Russia People’s Front
Gaza Flotilla Scheduled for Late June Pakistani Lawyer to Try and Halt Drone Strikes
PA Can't Pay Salaries in May Due to Israel Halting Funds Transfer J Street: Israel Must Move on Peace or Face Prospect of Fresh Violence
Waterboarding Helped Get Osama bin Laden: Dick Cheney Misrata Under Rising Pressure
Pakistan Tells US to Stay Off Grass as PM Yousaf Galani Calls Inquiry Al-Qaeda Data Yields Details of Planned Plots
Hillary Clinton Deemed Too Sexy for Jewish Newspaper Pakistani PM: Failure to Locate bin Laden Not Incompetence or Complicity
South Korea Open to Summit With North if Conditions Met Colombia Sends Reputed Drug Kingpin to Venezuela
Interview: Petraeus on bin Laden-Taliban Link US Issues Warning, Violence Grows Across Afghanistan
Five Civilians Killed in Afghan Suicide Bomb Biden and Clinton Lecture China on Human Rights
Rapidly Mounting Toll From Mexico Graves at 168 Christians Protest Violence in Cairo Demonstration
Syrian Forces Arrest Scores in Banias, Homs: Activists Security Forces Fire on Yemen Protest, Three Dead
Pakistan PM Says bin Laden Accusations Absurd UNHCR: Witnesses Say Ship With 600 Sunk Near Libya
Top Rep Warns UN Council of Bosnia Crisis South Korean President: May Invite North Korea's Kim
Iraq's Qaeda Pledges Support to Zawahri, Vows Attacks Obama Weighs Keeping National Guard on US, Mexico Border to Fight Illegal Immigration
Palestinians Miss Salaries for First Time Since '07 Morale Plunges Among Troops in Afghanistan
Debate Rages Among Syria's Opposition Kurds

May 8th, 2011

US Military Planned Using Spy Crows to Find Osama bin Laden
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