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Al Qaeda plan to ‘change face of history’ led to U.S. scare: Yemen

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi looks on during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (not pictured), in Washington, July 29, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed

SANAA (Reuters) – A vow made in a phone call by the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to carry out an

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A picture taken through a window shows the United Nations high representative for disarmament affairs, Angela Kane, second left, at a hotel in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) .
US moves forces toward Syria, inquiry continues

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials sought Saturday to determine whether Syria’s government unleashed a deadly chemical weapons attack on its people. At the same time, the Obama administration prepared

Li Baodong speaks with the media after Security Council consultations at U.N. headquarters in New York June 7, 2012. REUTERS/Allison Joyce
China sees no basis for talks with Japan over islands dispute

BEIJING (Reuters) – China sees no reason to conduct talks with Japan over their dispute about ownership of a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, Chinese deputy

A man stands at a flooded building in Veracruz August 25, 2013. REUTERS/Yahir Ceballos
Tropical depression Fernand kills 13 in Mexico, dissipates

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Torrential rains triggered by tropical depression Fernand killed 13 people in central Mexico on Monday before it dissipated, though the country’s major oil installations were unaffected.

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Dec 16 gang-rape accused wanted to kill victim: Prosecution

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The Delhi police Saturday, during final arguments in the Dec 16, 2012 gangrape case, told a city court that the accused had a clear intention

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Ayodhya turned into fortress, hundreds arrested

Lucknow, Aug 24 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government Saturday arrested hundreds of saints and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists as they tried to march towards Ayodhya for the proposed ’84

In this Wednesday, June 5, 2013 photo, Ratish Nanda, project director for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, talks as he inspects renovation work at the Sunder Nursery, a 100 acre field founded by British colonists to grow experimental plants, in New Delhi, India. The renovation is intended to serve as the catalyst for an even more ambitious project: the creation of a mammoth, iconic park that would rival New York's Central Park as a refuge from urban chaos. It would be 1,200 acres, considerably larger than Central Park. It would encompass one of the most impressive collections of medieval Islamic monuments, anchored by the grandiose tomb of Emperor Humayun, a 16th Century prototype for the Taj Mahal. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Dreamers work to create huge new park in Delhi

NEW DELHI (AP) — In a tangle of forgotten, overgrown brush in the heart of India’s capital, a quiet plan has been hatched to change the landscape of one of

A Saudi nurse walks towards the King Fahad hospital in Hofuf, east of Riyadh, on June 16, 2013. A Saudi man has died of the coronavirus MERS, bringing the kingdom's death toll from the SARS-like virus to 41, while two new cases were registered, the government said. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)
Saudi man dies of MERS virus

A Saudi man has died of the coronavirus MERS, bringing the kingdom’s death toll from the SARS-like virus to 41, while two new cases were registered, the government said Sunday.

Syrian army tanks are seen deployed in the Jobar neighbourhood of Damascus on August 24, 2013. The United States said on Sunday there was "very little doubt" Syrian forces had used chemical weapons on civilians and dismissed an offer by Damascus for a UN team to view the attack site. (AFP Photo/)
‘Very little doubt’ chemical weapons used in Syria

The United States said Sunday there was “very little doubt” Syrian forces had used chemical weapons on civilians and dismissed an offer by Damascus for a UN team to view

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For Obama, world looks far different than expected

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly five years into his presidency, Barack Obama confronts a world far different from what he envisioned when he first took office. U.S. influence is declining in