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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There are no signs that the incident in which a Nigerian man has been charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet bound from Amsterdam to Detroit was part of a larger plot, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.
December 27th, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda involvement is a "subject of investigation" in Friday's incident in which a Nigerian man has been charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet bound from Amsterdam to Detroit, U.S. homeland security chief Janet Napolitano said on Sunday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up on Sunday outside a Shi'ite Muslim prayer hall in the main city in the Pakistani part of the disputed Kashmir region, killing at least 2 people, police said.
LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian man who tried to blow up a U.S. passenger jet went through normal security checks when he began his journey in Lagos and had a multiple-entry U.S. visa issued in London, a senior Nigerian aviation official said.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A reformist website said a nephew of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi was killed in clashes between protesters and security forces in Tehran on Sunday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday called on Egypt to stop building a steel wall along the Gaza border that could obstruct tunnels which provide a lifeline for the blockaded enclave.
DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of Yemen's Shi'ite rebels may have died after being severely wounded by government forces in the north of the country, a Yemeni government website and media said on Sunday.
TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan held a stage-managed parliamentary election on Sunday, drawing little Western criticism due to its important role in U.S.-led efforts to contain the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Airline passengers headed for the United States faced tighter security measures on Saturday after an attempt to blow up a U.S. jet bound for Detroit, including pat-downs and an order to stay seated during the last hour of flight, airlines and security officials said.
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A photochrom print of Montreal in 1902. The history of Montreal, located in Quebec, Canada, spans some 8,000 years and started with the Algonquin, Wyandot, and Iroquois tribes of North America . A permanent French settlement was established in 1639, which transferred to British control in 1760. Image: Detroit Publishing Co.; Restoration: Lise Broer |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no initial evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet was involved in a larger plot, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.
December 26th, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Nigerian national, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was charged on Saturday with trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on a flight to Detroit on Christmas day using a high explosive, the U.S. Justice Department said.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Saturday, targeting a car used by members of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - A Lufthansa flight en route from Frankfurt to Detroit with about 200 passengers made an emergency landing in Iceland on Saturday after it was found to be carrying luggage whose owner had not boarded the plane.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Oklahoma company said it was voluntarily recalling 248,000 lbs (112,000 kg) of beef products in six states following an outbreak of illnesses involving E. coli bacteria.
LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian charged on Saturday with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger plane is the son of a prominent former banker, a family member said on Saturday, shocking the country's wealthy elite.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Airports and airlines across Europe moved rapidly to tighten security on U.S.-bound flights on Saturday after a man tried to set off explosives on a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday it had not yet decided whether to take legal action against the woman who lunged at Pope Benedict while calls grew for more efficient security to protect the pontiff.
AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi and Iranian forces are dug in on either side of a disputed inactive oil well in the sensitive border area, with Iraqis vowing to fight if necessary to fend off another occupation of the well by Iranian soldiers.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A pilotless U.S. drone aircraft attacked a suspected militant target in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing three people, intelligence officials said.
