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Set in the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the story follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack--and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and...

Four receive penalty in absentia over plot to carry out chemical attack AMMAN, Jordan - A military court sentenced nine men, including al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to death Wednesday for a plot to carry out a chemical attack on the kingdom. Al-Zarqawi and three others received...

A Sampling of U.S. Naval Humanitarian Operations Disaster Relief Naval forces are frequently called on to respond to disasters--both natural and man-made. The activities listed below range from relief actions following floods, earthquakes, and storms to ships' crews and Marines aiding efforts...

SALEM, Ore. - Fred Landis has a Valentine's Day ritual. Sometime, somewhere, he'll lean over to his wife, Gwen, and say, "I love you." They say he's been doing that on Valentine's Days since 1928, when they were married. In October, Fred, 102, and Gwen, 101, celebrated their 77th wedding...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Law enforcers have broken up an international ring that smuggled more than 100 people from several countries across the Canada-U.S. border and have made 17 arrests in four cities, officials said on Tuesday. Police said they expected further arrests in the case, after the...

There is a new conversation breaking out between Israelis and Palestinians thanks to a new, toll-free telephone service. Large numbers of Arabs and Jews are picking up the phone and talking to people “on the other side” about reconciliation, tolerance and peace. Over 48,000 calls were placed in...

Report on "Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar As Leading International Reserve Currency?", a Working Paper by Menzie D. Chinn (University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER) Jeffrey A. Frankel (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and NBER) At Issue- The US dollar is still the...

The global population is higher than the Earth can sustain, argues the Director of the British Antarctic Survey in the first of a series of environmental opinion pieces on the BBC News website entitled The Green Room. Solving environmental problems such as climate change is going to be...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein and three former officials in his regime on Tuesday told the court handling their trial that they were on a hunger strike in protest of the judge overseeing the proceedings. Saddam said he had not eaten in three days, while his former intelligence chief...

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No love for Valentine's Day in parts of India Hindu and Muslim groups burn cards to protest ‘immorality’ NEW DELHI, India - Hardline Hindu and Muslim groups burned Valentine’s Day greeting cards on Tuesday and held protests across India against celebrating the festival of love, saying it was...

KFC, other buildings torched in Pakistan riots Country sees its worst violence so far over prophet caricatures LAHORE, Pakistan - Thousands of protesters rampaged through two Pakistani cities Tuesday, storming into a diplomatic district and setting fire to Western businesses and a provincial...

Indonesian court gives four others life in prison in Bali drugs trial DENPASAR, Indonesia - An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced two young Australian men to die by firing squad for attempting to smuggle heroin from the resort island of Bali, verdicts that could strain ties with Canberra...

U.S. takes issue with preliminary report; document urges closing prison UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. investigation has concluded that the United States committed acts amounting to torture at Guantanamo Bay, including force-feeding detainees and subjecting them to prolonged solitary confinement...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has resumed some uranium enrichment work, geared to making fuel for nuclear reactors or bombs, in defiance of a vote to engage the U.N. Security Council in efforts to rein in Tehran's atomic ambitions, diplomats said. Iran said earlier on Monday that it would...

CARSON - BP and Edison International said Friday they plan to team up on a $1 billion hydrogen-fueled power plant in southern California. The plant, near the BP refinery in Carson 20 miles (32 km) south of Los Angeles, would come online by 2011 and generate 500 megawatts of electricity...

WASHINGTON - The American bald eagle, after battling back from the threat of extinction because of habitat loss and DDT, took another step Monday toward coming off the endangered species list. The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service issued draft voluntary guidelines spelling out...

ONE of the world's last Stone Age tribes has murdered two fishermen whose boat drifted on to a desert island in the Indian Ocean. The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range...

Moscow: Amid the escalating crisis around Iran's nuclear programme, Russia said Thursday that it will still arm Tehran with missiles that can secure nuclear facilities from attacks. "We concluded a contract for the supply of air-defence systems to Iran and there is no reason not to fulfil it,"...

BERLIN (AP) - Feb. 10, 2006 - A German businessman who printed the name of the Quran on toilet paper and offered the rolls for sale to mosques and media will face trial for disturbing the peace. The man, identified only as Manfred van H., is scheduled to go on trial Feb. 23 at a court in...