A Maryland teen pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. terror charges for offering assistance to an American woman who dubbed herself “Jihad Jane” and supported an Irish terror cell bent on waging a Muslim holy war in Europe.
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An outspoken critic of the war in Afghanistan claimed Friday that public anger over the conflict propelled him to a surprise victory in a special election for a seat in Britain’s House of Commons.
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Afghanistan war critic wins UK Parliament seat
Pope Benedict XVI called Friday for a fight against the “evil” of drug gangs in violence-plagued Mexico and “new models” in communist Cuba, on his first trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America.
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Norfolk State, Lehigh lead memorable day of upsets
The Pentagon plans to resume programs that would pay for military training and equipment in Yemen, nearly a year after halting aid to the key counterterrorism partner because of escalating internal chaos.
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Reuters – Western and Arab nations will demand on Friday that Syria allow aid to be delivered to desperate civilians in the absence of any international resolve to intervene to end a crackdown on a near year-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
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"Friends of Syria" to demand immediate access for aid
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AP – Government troops shelled rebel-held areas in central Syria on Friday, killing at least four people, activists said, as the United States, Europe and Arab nations met in Tunisia to seek ways to ease the crisis.
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Reuters – Defense lawyers made a case for Allen Stanford’s innocence on Friday in a courtroom filled with people who said he had stolen millions of dollars of their savings.
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Three years on, investors attend Stanford trial
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Reuters – Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion worth of fake U.S. Treasury bonds and other securities in Switzerland, and arrested eight Italians accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.
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Italian police seize $6 trillion of fake U.S. bonds
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AP – An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
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