An Iranian, a Lebanese and 16 Saudis have been arrested on spying charges in Saudi Arabia, officials say.
The 18 suspects had been "involved in a spying cell for a state", an interior ministry spokesman told state TV.
"They were gathering information about installations and vital areas in the country and providing intelligence agencies of that state with it," said ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki.
T.J. Lane, who appeared in court Tuesday morning wearing a t-shirt with the word "KILLER" in marker across his chest, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of three teenagers at an Ohio high school.
French President Francois Hollande's popularity has fallen to the lowest level since he was elected last May, taking his rating below that of far-right leader Marine Le Pen for the first time, a poll showed on Sunday.
By Umesh Singh in Gwalior, Hindustan Times, March 16, 2013
A 38-year-old Swiss national, who was taking a bicycle tour through Madhya Pradesh, was gang-raped, beaten up and robbed at gunpoint by more than six men on Friday night.
The victim, who resides in Lausanne, Switzerland, was with her husband when the horrific incident took place. The two were cycling from Orchha, a heritage tourism spot, to Agra when they decided to camp in a jungle near Jhadia village.
The remains of a medieval knight have been discovered underneath a car park that is being demolished at a city-centre building site. The skeleton was found in Edinburgh’s Old Town after archaeologists uncovered the corner of an elaborately decorated sandstone slab bearing markings of a member of the nobility – the carvings of the Calvary Cross and an ornate sword. An excavation of the immediate area uncovered the adult skeleton [....]
By Ryan J. Reilly, Huffington Post, March 14, 3013
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer seemed to indicate Thursday they'd consider a U.S. citizen born in Puerto Rico "natural-born" and eligible to run for president. Their comments, directed at Puerto Rican-born Rep. José Serrano (D-N.Y.), came during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on the Supreme Court's budget.
PITTSBURGH—The mother of a man charged in a fatal shooting at a western Pennsylvania bar is now accused of having illegally provided her son with firearms.
Sixty-year-old Gloria Mazzocco of Imperial was charged Wednesday in Allegheny County with conspiracy, violations of the uniform firearms act and providing a firearm to a person barred from possessing one [ ....]
By Mark Hugo Lopez, Ana Gonzalez-Barrera and Eileen Patten, Pew Research Hispanic Center, March 7, 2013
Latinos own smartphones, go online from a mobile device and use social networking sites at similar—and sometimes higher—rates than do other groups of Americans, according to a new analysis of three surveys by the Pew Research Center.
By Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, March 12/13, 2013
A New York police officer was convicted on Tuesday in a bizarre plot to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women,ending a trial whose outcome hinged on the delicate legal distinction between fantasy and reality.
BAGHDAD: Al Qaeda’s Iraqi front group claimed an attack on a convoy in west Iraq that killed 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards, in a statement posted on jihadist forums on Monday.
The soldiers had entered Iraq for medical treatment and were being transported through the western province of Anbar on their way back to Syria when the attack took place on March 4, according to the Iraqi defence ministry.
By Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul, guardian.co.uk, 10 March, 2013
Strained US-Afghan ties have suffered a fresh blow after newly appointed US defence secretary Chuck Hagel cancelled plans for his first joint news conference with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, the second reminder of serious tensions in a brief visit to Afghanistan
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By Declan Walsh & Waqar Gillani, New York Times, March 9/10, 2014
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An enraged Muslim crowd attacked a Christian neighborhood in Lahore on Saturday, setting fire to more than 150 houses and 2 churches, in a new display of religious intolerance as Pakistan reels from violent persecution against other minorities.
In Peshawar on Saturday, a bomb exploded in a mosque, killing at least 4 people and wounding 28, the police said.
By Marc Santoro and William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, March 8, 2013
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden who once served as a spokesman for Al Qaeda, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in federal court in Manhattan on Friday morning, where he was charged with conspiracy to kill Americans.
