WASHINGTON - The United States says it would continue to encourage India and Pakistan to talk and see them cooperate to combat terrorism, but it was ultimately for them to decide the pace of their dialogue.
WASHINGTON - The US has told Pakistan it must ban travel, freeze assets and put an arms embargo against key leaders of Pakistan-based Haqqani Network, identified as one of the most effective and dangerous terror groups.
Former AG says he’s angry about criminal probe
Number of political prisoners in Cuba still murky
Hearing continued for ‘South Park’ critic
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A detention hearing for a Virginia man charged with twice trying to join a Somali terror group linked to al-Qaida has been continued.
Lovers of alleged druglord appear in DomRep court
Bonds trial likely to start next year
SAN FRANCISCO — It appears Barry Bonds’ long-running criminal case may not go to trial until next year.
Judge: Conrad Black can’t return to Canadian home
Detroit hit man gets 52 years for killing 8 people
NJ man jailed for assaulting cancer patient’s girl
Mexican official charged with aiding drug dealing
Woman hurls bag of urine at California officers
2 more plead guilty in Obama student loan case
Investigation ties military workers to child porn
COLOMBO - More than a year after it crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels, the Sri Lankan government is in the process of tracking down the rebels’ support bases overseas, Xinhua reported Friday.
California man gets death for killing girl, 11
BHUBANESWAR - An hour-long gun battle broke out Friday night between the police and Maoists in a forested area of Orissa’s Malkangiri district, police said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
12 years in prison for Milwaukee mayor’s attacker
FBI makes busts in border drug violence
SAN DIEGO — Federal authorities in San Diego have conducted searches and made arrests involving a drug cartel’s alleged cross-border crimes.
Detroit hit man sentenced to 52 years in prison
Church blasts gay priests leading ‘double life’
Mass. court rejects bid by killer who fled to Ill.
Trafigura fined €1 million in hazardous waste case
Trafigura fined euro1 million in hazardous waste case
Ex-Pa. judge pleads guilty in kids-for-cash scheme
RAIPUR - Armed Maoists stormed into a bus in Chhattisgarh, forced the 40-odd passengers out and drove away, leaving the commuters to walk several kilometers on a jungle road, police said Friday.
Turkish court orders arrest of 102 in coup plot
Appeals court upholds NY ‘Mafia cops’ conviction
Ohioan charged with burning flags on Memorial Day
Police officer dies in Detroit suburb shooting
Cambodia awaits verdict in Khmer Rouge tribunal
KOLKATA - Coming out in protest for the first time, thousands of tribal women in Maoist-affected Jhargram in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district Friday held a demonstration against a rebel-led tribal group for forcing them to join their agitations.
3 cops injured, woman dead in Mass. family dispute
KOLKATA - Suspected Maoists Friday shot dead a 58-year-old primary school teacher in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, police said.
GUWAHATI - Near history was made in Assam Friday with New Delhi holding the first round of direct talks with the leadership of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), almost two decades after the first formal talks with the ULFA in 1992 broke down.
Scottish official to skip US Lockerbie hearing
