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FBI use of drones cost $3 million, report says WASHINGTON – The FBI has been using drones to support its law enforcement operations since 2006 and has spent more than $3 million o...

Report to study CO² impact

STOCKHOLM – Scientists are more confident than ever that pumping carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels is warming the planet. The question is, by how much? It’s some...

World Briefs

Somalia president blasts mall attack UNITED NATIONS – Somalia’s president has condemned the “cruel and terrible” attack on a Nairobi mall and says the fight against the Islamic ex...

Official: Talks with Iran ‘substantial’

UNITED NATIONS – – EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says talks between Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany were “substantial” and hav...

Envoy says deal reached on Syria

UNITED NATIONS – Britain’s U.N. ambassador says key powers have reached agreement on a resolution to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. Mark Lyall Grant tweeted that the ...

Massive quake in southwest Pakistan kills 210

QUETTA, Pakistan – Rescuers struggled Wednesday to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a massive earthquake in southwestern Pakistan, as the de...

FBI helping ID Kenya dead

NAIROBI, Kenya – Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis Wednesday to help determine the identities...

Nation Briefs

Senators offer proposal to stop NSA collections WASHINGTON – Spying by the National Security Agency has cost the United States economically and angered allies, a bipartisan group ...

World Briefs

Soyuz spacecraft takes three to space station MOSCOW – A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American lifted off early Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, soaring int...

Navy Yard gunman left note about radio waves

WASHINGTON – Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis left a note saying constant bombardment with extremely low-frequency radio waves “has driven me to this,” the FBI said Wednesday in a di...

Foreign weapons sent to rebels in Syria worry Iraq

Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Iraq is taking no side in the 2½-year-old civil war in Syria and urged other countries to resist meddling. “We deplore the efforts of anyone ...

Russia expects Syria resolution in next 2 days

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council, long paralyzed by deep divisions over how to deal with the Syrian conflict, is about two days away from agreeing on a resolution to require Damasc...