Senate Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden From Afghan Mountains

Senate Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden From Afghan Mountains


Senate Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden From Afghan Mountains

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:44 AM PST

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee completed a look back at a failure early in the battle against Al Qaeda: the escape of Osama bin Laden from U.S. forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in 2001.


Live - Del Potro v Soderling

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 12:17 PM PST

Juan Martin del Potro plays Robin Soderling for a place in the final of the World Tour Finals in London against Nikolay Davydenko.


Midtown Journal: Bringing Big Band Jazz Back to the Theater District

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 12:04 PM PST

On Mondays at Club Cache on West 46th Street, 11 men in tuxedos evoke the Jazz Age.


Commonwealth backs climate plan

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 12:10 PM PST

Commonwealth states launch push for comprehensive deal at Copenhagen summit.


Terrorism Suspected in Russia Train Crash

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 12:11 PM PST

Russian authorities cited terrorism as the likely cause of a train wreck between Moscow and St. Petersburg that killed at least 26 people and injured about 100.


Bruised Sarkozy launches campaign for French regionals

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:03 AM PST

AUBERVILLIERS, France (Reuters) - Battered by a series of political setbacks, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday launched his campaign for next year's regional elections and called for unity in his center-right UMP party.


Religious, secular Israelis hold opposing protests

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:08 AM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Several hundred Israelis protested in Jerusalem on Saturday against a campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews to shutter all businesses in the city on the sabbath.


Conference to explore handing control back to Afghans

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:56 AM PST

Britain announced plans Saturday to host an international conference on Afghanistan, a summit designed to formulate plans for transferring power to and bolstering the power of local authorities.


South Carolina Rift Highlights Debate Over G.O.P.

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 12:07 PM PST

Some Republicans in South Carolina are questioning the conservative bona fides of Senator Lindsey Graham.


At This School, It’s Marijuana in Every Class

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 12:06 PM PST

A six-week, $485 primer focuses on the history, the horticulture and the legal how-to's of Michigan's new medical marijuana program.


U.S. to Pressure Mortgage Firms for Loan Relief

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 12:19 PM PST

Only a tiny fraction of mortgages have been permanently reduced under a $75 billion program for troubled homeowners.


Spin on Woods’s Story Takes On a Life of Its Own

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 12:20 PM PST

The Florida Highway Patrol plans to interview Tiger Woods and his wife to investigate his one-car accident.


Zardari hands over nuclear powers

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:47 AM PST

Pakistan's president hands control of the nation's nuclear arsenal to his PM, in an apparent bid to ease political pressure.


Complaint Box | Air Conditions

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 11:10 AM PST

The lack of signs pointing to the Jet Blue flights at Newark Liberty Airport is the first of many frustrations and extra costs for a traveling family.


Afghan talks to seek road to security handover

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:31 AM PST

PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Britain will host talks on Afghanistan on January 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday, just days before U.S. President Barack Obama spells out his expansion of the war effort next week.


Afghans Detail a Secret Prison Still Operating on a U.S. Base

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:57 AM PST

A U.S. military detention camp is still holding inmates for sometimes weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to researchers and former detainees.


Many dead in DR Congo boat accident

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:37 AM PST

At least 73 people are killed after vessel sinks in country's western region.


Commonwealth backs climate fund

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:55 AM PST

Commonwealth leaders pledge backing for a multi-billion-dollar fund to help developing nations cope with climate change


The Saturday Profile: China’s Impolitic Artist, Still Waiting to Be Silenced

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 11:56 PM PST

Ai Weiwei is perhaps China's most famous living artist and its most vociferous domestic critic, titles of a sort the committed iconoclast disdains.


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