CAIRO: Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt in Detroit, in an audio message released
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The message suggests that bin Laden wants to show he remains in direct command of al-Qaida’s many branches around the world.
In the short recording carried by the Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel, bin Laden addressed President Barack Obama [...]

NEW DELHI: While former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru coined the famous slogan ‘Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai’, China considered him ”
India to be “bottomless pit” for foreign aid.
It also held the view that it was a “pity” that late prime minister Indira Gandhi “has also taken as her legacy the philosophy of her father embodied in the book Discovery of India,” [...]

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
 January 23, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Obama took aim at the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying the justices had “handed a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists” with last week’s 5-to-4 decision to lift restrictions on campaign spending by corporations and unions.
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The figures have exceeded government-set targets
China says its economy expanded by 8.7% in 2009, likely leap-frogging Japan to become the world’s second largest economy behind only the US.
The Chinese government also said the growth in the final quarter of 2009 accelerated by 10.7% from 2008.
But analysts say currency fluctuations make it difficult to compare China and Japan, and some experts [...]

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) — The United Nations Security Council is set to vote today on sending 2,000 more troops and 1,500 extra police to Haiti as forces on the ground struggle to keep order and speed delivery of food, water and medicine.
“Haiti requires a massive response from the international community,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said in New York yesterday. “The [...]

Maj Hasan’s case has shocked America

Two leading US senators have urged the Pentagon to take steps to combat the threat of Islamist extremism within the ranks of the US military.
The senators called for educating military personnel about the “warning signs of extremism”.
The recommendation came in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings in Texas during which an Army major killed [...]

The Obama presidency was expected to herald closer ties after years of perceived neglect under Bush. But relations have soured amid the Honduran coup and Iran’s increasing ties in the region.

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Reporting from Washington – Just eight months ago, President Obama was calling [...]

By: Holbrook Mohr
JACKSON, Miss. – Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, is set to report to federal prison Monday for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation.
The next chapter of DeLaughter’s life, as inmate No. 12930-042, marks a long fall from the height of his legal [...]

By Kim Ghattas
BBC News, Washington

Mr Obama has condemned his Honduran counterpart’s removal

US President Barack Obama has called the removal of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya on Sunday a “coup”.
The ousted leader has been meeting US officials in Washington.
But the US State Department has not recalled its ambassador from Tegucigalpa and it is still reviewing whether to cut off aid [...]

Posted By: Audrey Barnes
CLARKSBURG, Md. (WUSA) — Shiane Dixon, 12, had just joined her brother, Hassan, on the Track and Field Wall of Fame at Rocky Hill Middle School. That six minute, five second mile is the last race Shiane will ever run.
The bubbly and bright student athlete was killed in an early morning crash near Richmond Monday morning. Police [...]