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Taliban Behind Bombing in Pakistan's Swat Valley

1 day 2 hours ago |AOL News

(March 13) -- A suicide bomber driving a 3-wheeled rickshaw exploded into a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 13 people in the second big attack on Pakistani tro ...

Holocaust Memorials Tagged With Anti-Semitic Graffiti

11 hours 27 minutes ago |AP

WARSAW, Poland (March 13) -- Vandals sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on Holocaust memorials at a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, desecration that authorities discovered Saturday and are inves ...

Scientists Can See What's On Your Mind

2 days 12 hours ago |AOL News

(March 11) -- Mind-reading devices are still a thing of science fiction, but scientists can now peer into the brain and pinpoint complex memories. In the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, ...

Unauthorized Israeli Settlement Looks to Expand

13 hours 3 minutes ago |AOL News

AVIGAYIL, West Bank (March 13) -- As Maor Wiener tells the story, the settlement of Avigayil started in 2001 when the head of the regional council pointed to the top of the hill south of Mount Hebron ...

Hillary Clinton Rebukes Israel for Settlements Surprise

9 hours 50 minutes ago |Politics Daily

(March 13) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ruffled some feathers this week with her sharp criticism of Israel after the Israeli government announced a new wave of Jewish settlements in East Jer ...

Henry Kissinger Recovering in South Korea Hospital

20 hours 53 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 13) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was taken to a hospital Saturday after suffering abdominal pain during a visit to the South Korean capital , according to several reports. ...

Suicide Attacks Kill Dozens in Afghanistan

15 hours 28 minutes ago |AP

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (March 13) -- A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest c ...

11 Rare Tigers Starve to Death at China Zoo

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(March 13) -- Eleven rare Siberian tigers starved to death at a cash-strapped Chinese zoo this winter in a case activists say highlights inadequate care for endangered species in the country's wildli ...

Billionaire Among Us: How Mexicans See Carlos Slim

18 hours 12 minutes ago |AOL News

MEXICO CITY (March 13) -- How does a country battered by a lethal drug war and the worst recession since the 1930s react when one of its own, Carlos Slim Helu, is deemed by Forbes magazine to be the ...

Questions Arise About Priest From Pope's Old Diocese

1 day 9 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 12) -- The fallout from the growing Catholic sex abuse scandals finally reached as far as the pope Friday when it was revealed that Benedict XVI knew a priest was a pedophile in 1980 but appro ...

Scientists Mount Push to Block Ivory Sale

1 day 16 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 12) -- Next week, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, will decide whether to allow two African nations to sell their stockpiled ivory. In anticipation, a gro ...

Alleged 'American Jihadist' Made Way to Yemen

1 day 16 hours ago |AOL News

SANA'A, YEMEN (March 12) -- Sharif Mobley, a 26-year-old New Jersey man suspected of being an al-Qaida member, reportedly shot his way out of a Yemeni hospital Sunday and into American headlines. "It ...