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Witness: Kenya mall attackers target non-Muslims

Witness: Kenya mall attackers target non-Muslims


Witness: Kenya mall attackers target non-Muslims

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 06:32 AM PDT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Gunmen threw grenades and opened fire Saturday killing at least 10 people in an attack targeting non-Muslims at an upscale mall in Kenya's capital that was hosting a children's day event, witnesses said.

Food stamps again a vivid symbol in poverty debate

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 01:13 AM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 6, 2010 file photo shows a sign announcing the acceptance of electronic Benefit Transfer cards at a farmers market in Roseville, Calif. The House has voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from food stamps, a 5 percent reduction to the nation's main feeding program used by more than 1 in 7 Americans. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)They have figured in Americans' ideas about the poor for decades.


Watchdog gets details of Syrian chemical arsenal

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 04:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo released Saturday Aug. 31, 2013 by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, samples brought back by the U.N. chemical weapons inspection team are checked in upon their arrival at The Hague, Netherlands. Syria has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an "initial declaration" outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday Sept. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/OPCW, Henry Arvidsson, File)Technical experts at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were reviewing Saturday a further disclosure from Syria about its chemical weapons program.


Pakistan releases top Afghan Taliban prisoner

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 08:52 AM PDT

FILE - This March 4, 2001, file photo shows Taliban's then-Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Muttawakil, who served as foreign minister when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, hailed Pakistan's release of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's former deputy leader, on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan freed the Afghan Taliban's former deputy leader on Saturday after years of detention in a move that many officials in Islamabad and Kabul hope will aid Afghanistan's struggling peace process.


Lawmaker: Taliban abduction left her 'even braver'

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 04:17 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 photo, Afghan lawmaker Fariba Ahmadi Kakar speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since July, several prominent women have been attacked in Afghanistan. Among them: two police officers who were killed in the south, an Indian author living in eastern Afghanistan who was killed years after her memoir about 1990s life under Taliban rule became a Bollywood film; and a senator who was wounded in an ambush. These and other attacks on female leaders in recent years have generally been blamed on the Taliban, though the Afghan militant group, mindful of cultural sensitivities, usually does not admit to targeting women. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban kidnappers moved her to at least 13 homes, made her sleep on the ground, and kept asking where she'd been, what she'd done and whom she knew. Every few days, she would be given a chance to call her family.


Israel: Palestinian abducts, kills Israeli soldier

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 10:49 AM PDT

A Palestinian boy walks by shadows cast by members of the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia, the military wing of Hamas during a march in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia are marching through the neighborhood to parade their weapons and show their strength. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian lured an Israeli soldier to a village in the West Bank and killed him with the intention of trading the body for his brother jailed for terror attacks, Israel's intelligence agency said Saturday, in a slaying that casts another shadow on U.S. mediated peace talks that restarted this summer.


Report: US came close nuclear disaster in 1961

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 04:07 AM PDT

Picture taken in 1971, showing a nuclear explosion in Mururoa atollLONDON (AP) — A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation's east coast, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published book says.


Actor deserves individual Emmy tribute, son says

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 15, 2008 file photo, Jack Klugman arrives at the 62nd annual Tony Awards, in New York. The Emmys will honor the late actors Klugman and Larry Hagman as part of an in memoriam package, but the two are not among those singled out for separate tributes. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The exclusion of Jack Klugman from an Emmy Awards tribute that includes Cory Monteith is an insult to the memory of the late TV veteran and three-time Emmy winner who starred in "The Odd Couple" and "Quincy M.E.," Klugman's son says.


Playoff chase: Red Sox clinch AL East

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 04:40 AM PDT

Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz, right, and teammate Mike Carp celebrate after the Red Sox clinched the AL East with a 6-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in a baseball game at Fenway Park, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)The Yankees kept pace in the AL wild-card race in grand fashion and Kansas City walked off with a win that knocked Texas from the top spot. Rain helped Cleveland advance in the standings, while Cincinnati and Tampa Bay needed extras for crucial wins. A quick look at baseball's playoff picture:


Funeral bombing, other attacks in Iraq kill 62

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 09:33 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say the death toll from a bombing at a funeral in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad has risen to 51.

Israel: Soldier abducted, killed by Palestinian

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 09:10 AM PDT

A Palestinian boy walks by shadows cast by members of the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia, the military wing of Hamas during a march in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia are marching through the neighborhood to parade their weapons and show their strength. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian lured an Israeli soldier to a village in the West Bank and killed him with the intention of trading the body for his jailed brother, Israel's intelligence agency said Saturday.


Merkel favored for 3rd term, faces tight outcome

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 05:12 AM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, arrives at the final stage of her election campaign in Berlin, Germany , Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. General elections in Germany are scheduled for Sept. 22, 2013. Angela Merkel will run for her third term. (AP Photo/dpa, Michael Kappeler)BERLIN (AP) — She enjoys overwhelming popularity and leads an economy that's the envy of Europe. But Angela Merkel is in a fight to clinch a new term for her ruling coalition in Sunday's national election, with polls showing her center-right alliance on a knife-edge as her junior partner's support slumps.


NKorea postpones reunions of war-divided families

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 07:28 AM PDT

South Korean Cho Jang-geum, 81, weeps as she fills out an application form to reunite with her family members who are living in North Korea, at the headquarters of the Korean Red Cross in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. North Korea on Saturday indefinitely postponed reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War scheduled to start Wednesday, an apparent setback after weeks of improving ties following springtime threats of war.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Park Dong-ju) KOREA OUTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday indefinitely postponed reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War scheduled to start Wednesday, an apparent setback after weeks of improving ties following springtime threats of war.


Gov't shutdown splits possible 2016 GOP contenders

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 12:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 24, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cruz says he will fight MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz says he will fight "with every breath" to stop the health care overhaul, even if it means shutting down segments of the federal government. That approach, warns former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is "quite dicey" politically for Republicans.


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