| U.S.: Terror group was nearing attack Posted: 23 Sep 2014 10:50 AM PDT  U.S. bombed cell of al-Qaida militants in northwestern Syria of whom few have heard.
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| Sierra Leone: 130 Ebola cases found during lockdown Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:18 AM PDT  Sierra Leone says 130 confirmed cases of Ebola were found during a three-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the disease. Officials are awaiting tests on about 70 more suspected cases.
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| Somali pirates release U.S.-German hostage Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:33 AM PDT  Mogadishu (AFP) - Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a German-American journalist and writer, Michael Scott Moore, two and a half years after he was kidnapped in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, officials said.
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| Pentagon: Khorasan group nearing attack Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:14 AM PDT  U.S. bombed cell of al-Qaida militants in northwestern Syria of whom few have heard.
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| Pa. fugitive appears in documentary as Vietnam War re-enactor Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:52 AM PDT  CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — The manhunt for the survivalist accused of ambushing a state police barracks has narrowed to the rural area where he grew up and his parents still live, but the suspect has managed to elude capture despite the efforts of hundreds of law enforcement officials.
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| India's $75 million spacecraft on course to enter Mars orbit Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:20 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — India will soon know if its first interplanetary mission will achieve its goal, when a spacecraft built with homegrown technology for a remarkably low price tag of $75 million begins its final maneuvers into orbit around Mars.
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| Police take forensic evidence in search for missing UVa. student Posted: 23 Sep 2014 07:40 AM PDT  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — In a second search of the home of the man believed to be the last person seen with a missing University of Virginia student, officials said they took pieces of clothing, but they would not elaborate on the importance of the items Tuesday.
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| 3 dead in shooting at UPS facility in Ala., say police Posted: 23 Sep 2014 10:11 AM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company's warehouses in Alabama, killing two people before committing suicide, police said.
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| Life sentence in NYC for Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law Posted: 23 Sep 2014 10:05 AM PDT  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A seemingly unrepentant Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in New York following his conviction on terrorism charges. A Manhattan federal jury in March found the Kuwaiti-born 48-year-old guilty of conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to provide material support for terrorists and providing such support, after a trial that offered a rare glimpse of bin Laden in the hours following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. U.S. ...
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| 'Suitcase full of fears': Pope calls for global effort on migration crisis Posted: 23 Sep 2014 05:43 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis called on Tuesday for countries to join forces to help the rising number of migrants, thousands of whom have died this year on perilous journeys to flee poverty and war. The pontiff's message comes as seaborne migration from North Africa to Europe is at a record high and the United States is seeing a surge in the number of children from Central America attempting to cross its southern border. ...
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| U.N. puts spotlight on climate change Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:08 AM PDT  By Valerie Volcovici NEW YORK (Reuters) - With crises from Islamic State to Ebola competing for attention, the United Nations on Tuesday will zero in on climate change, giving leaders from 125 countries a platform to explain how they plan to address the issue. A huge march to call for international action on climate change, which brought as many as 400,000 people to the streets of New York on Sunday, set the tone for the summit spearheaded by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. ...
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| Obama: War on Islamic State will ‘take time’ Posted: 23 Sep 2014 07:51 AM PDT  President says fight is not just the U.S.'s alone; Arab coalition played key role.
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| Israel military shoots down Syrian aircraft Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:56 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military shot down a Syrian fighter jet that infiltrated its airspace over the Golan Heights on Tuesday morning — the first such downing in decades, heightening tensions in the volatile plateau.
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| Russia to bolster Black Sea fleet with 80 new warships Posted: 23 Sep 2014 06:17 AM PDT  By Vladimir Soldatkin NOVOROSSIYSK Russia (Reuters) - Russia will increase its Black Sea fleet with more than 80 new warships by 2020 and will complete a second naval base for the fleet near the city of Novorossiysk by 2016, its commander said on Tuesday. In comments made to President Vladimir Putin as he visited the port city, Vice Admiral Alexander Vitko said a second Black Sea base was needed in addition to the main base on the Crimea peninsula annexed from Ukraine because of NATO expansion. "Eighty ships and other vessels are expected to arrive (in Novorossiysk) before 2020. ...
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| US warns Ebola could infect 1.4 million by 2015 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:54 AM PDT Washington (AFP) - The number of Ebola infections in Liberia and Sierra Leone could skyrocket to 1.4 million by January 2015, according to a worst-case scenario released by US health authorities Tuesday. |
| U.S., partners begin airstrikes in Syria Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:20 AM PDT  The U.S. and five Arab countries launch strikes on Islamic State targets in eastern Syria.
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| Airstrikes target al-Qaida veterans Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:11 AM PDT  U.S. forces simultaneously hit IS and the shadowy Khorosan Group in Syria.
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| Hamas suspects in slaying of Israeli teens killed Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:19 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout early on Tuesday and killed two Palestinians suspected in the June abduction and slaying of three Israeli teenagers, a gruesome attack that had triggered a chain of events that led to the war in Gaza this summer.
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| Chicago Mayor Emanuel proposes decriminalizing pot in Illinois Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:59 AM PDT  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday to reform sentencing for low-level drug offenses, which would include ticketing rather than arresting people caught with small amounts of marijuana. Emanuel had backed a 2012 change in Chicago law that decriminalized marijuana in the nation's third-largest city. Emanuel said on Tuesday that the change statewide would save tax dollars, allow police to focus on more serious crimes and keep non-violent offenders from a lifetime in the criminal justice system. ...
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| D'Souza gets community confinement for election law violation Posted: 23 Sep 2014 10:40 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza was sentenced on Tuesday to spend eight months in a community confinement center during five years of probation after pleading guilty to a campaign finance law violation. The defendant, a frequent critic of President Barack Obama, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan. He was also given a $30,000 fine and ordered to do one day of community service a week during his probation. D'Souza, 53, admitted in May to illegally reimbursing two 'straw donors' who donated $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 ...
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| Obama scores coalition victory with Arab strikes Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:44 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes against militants in Syria marked an unexpected foreign policy victory as he plunges the U.S. deeper into a military conflict in the Middle East that he has reluctantly embraced.
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