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Hagel to broach topic of cyberthreats with Chinese

ABOARD A U.S. AIRCRAFT – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet with members of a Chinese delegation this weekend and likely talk about ongoing cyberthreats amid new reports that China used...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Murder charged in Calif. dog pack mauling death

LOS ANGELES – A Southern California man was arrested Thursday on a felony murder warrant stemming from the mauling death of a jogger by a pack of dogs earlier this month. The warr...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russians find woolly mammoth carcass containing liquid blood

Discovery fuels talk of cloning the Ice Age animal

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tornadoes touch down in Okla. and Ark.; 9 hurt

OKLAHOMA CITY – At least two tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and another hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least nine injurie...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Syria’s Assad ‘confident in victory’ in civil war

BEIRUT – Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he is “confident in victory” in his country’s civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for a...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

No charge against mother of baby in sewer BEIJING – The mother of a Chinese baby boy who was rescued from a sewer pipe beneath a restroom shortly after birth is unlikely to face c...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Round pebbles on Mars reveal past flowing water LOS ANGELES – A fresh analysis by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirms a stream once ran through Gale Crater on Mars. During ...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iraqi forces fail to stem violence

BAGHDAD – Officials in Iraq are growing increasingly concerned about an unabated spike in violence that claimed at least another 33 lives Thursday and is reviving fears of a return to widesp...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Drone strike comes despite transparency pledge

WASHINGTON – The drone attack that killed a Pakistan Taliban deputy leader this week was a clear signal that despite President Barack Obama’s promise last week of new transparency in the dro...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal official says Obama, Bloomberg ricin letters similar

WASHINGTON – A suspicious letter mailed to the White House was similar to two threatening, poison-laced letters on the gun-law debate sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nat...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Secret Service: Letter to White House intercepted

WASHINGTON – The Secret Service said Thursday that a suspicious letter addressed to President Barack Obama and similar to ricin-laced ones sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been i...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.K. police: Man charged in UK soldier’s murder

LONDON — Police have charged a man with the murder of a British soldier in a suspected Islamic extremist attack in broad daylight. Michael Adebowale, 22, was charged late Wednesda...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World