The United Arab Emirates has ordered 94 people to be tried on charges of trying to seize power.
The attorney general said the suspects had formed a group that publicly called on people to observe the teachings and values of Islam, but in secret sought to overthrow the state.
He said they had links to foreigners, including the Muslim Brotherhood [....]
French-backed Malian troops searched through Timbuktu for Islamist rebel fighters on Monday after seizing the airport and surrounding the ancient Saharan trading town in a lightning offensive against al Qaeda-allied fighters in northern Mali.
Egypt president Mohamed Morsi has on Sunday declared a 30-day state of emergency in Port Said, Suez and Ismailia, the three governorates which have witnessed deadly clashes since the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on 25 Jan.
During a speech broadcast on state television, the under-fire Morsi has also said a curfew will be imposed in the three cities from 9 pm to 6 am during the duration of the emergency state in an attempt to curb increasing violence.
[....] That Mr. Obama had to make such a decree at all is a measure of the power of the gun lobby, which has effectively shut down government-financed research on gun violence for 17 years.
CARACAS, Venezuela The death toll has risen to 61 following fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more people were wounded in one of the deadliest prison riots in the nation's recent history [....]
By Aruna Viswanatha and Terry Baynes, Reuters, Jan 25, 2013 8:38pm EST
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that President Barack Obama violated the U.S. Constitution when he used recess appointments to fill a labor board, in a sweeping decision that could limit presidential power to push through federal nominees [.....]
By Steven Yaccino, New York Times, Jan 24/25, 2013
CHICAGO — David C. Headley, an American who confessed to helping plan the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, was sentenced here on Thursday to 35 years in prison, the maximum sought by federal prosecutors.
PALERMO, Italy — Inside a midnight-blue BMW, a Sicilian entrepreneur delivered his pitch to the accused mafia boss. A new business was blowing into Italy that could spin wind and sunlight into gold, ensuring the future of the Earth as well as the Cosa Nostra: renewable energy.
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 22, 2013
[....] The latest federal report on public school graduates and dropouts, released Tuesday, paints an improving picture of high school education, but the results vary by location, a reflection of the reality that education policy remains a local issue. [....]
By Corey Kilgannon, City Room @ nytimes.com, Jan 22, 2013
After one visit, she returned with her hair in dreadlocks. Another time, her long blonde locks were primly fashioned into a traditional bun. One day, she came back wearing a uniform of the exclusive Brearley School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
By By Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk, Associated Press in Houston, Jan 22, 2013
A fight between two people led to a shooting at a Texas community college, where a maintenance man was caught in the crossfire and wounded, officials said.
One of the people involved in the fight had a student ID, and both people were wounded and hospitalized, Harris County Sheriff's Maj. Armando Tello said. A fourth person also was taken to a hospital for a medical condition, he said.
By Douglas Dalby, New York Times, Jan. 19/20, 2013
DUBLIN — A well-known Irish Catholic priest plans to defy Vatican authorities on Sunday by breaking his silence about what he says is a campaign against him by the church over his advocacy of more open discussion on church teachings.
By Neeta Lal in New Delhi, Asia Times Online, Jan 19, 2013
Home page lede: Uttar Pradesh authorities have pulled out all the stops for a successful Maha Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering of people on the planet which started this week and expected to draw millions of pilgrims of all creeds for ritual bathing in the Ganges. As well as posing a logistical nightmare, the 55-day event is also a great social lubricant and a boon for businesses.
The world's 100 richest people earned enough money last year to end world extreme poverty four times over, according to a new report released by international rights group and charity Oxfam.
The $240 billion net income of the world's 100 richest billionaires would have ended poverty four times over, according to the London-based group's report released on Saturday.
Nominated spy chief John Brennan reported to have agreed exemption over extra-judicial assassinations
By Ed Pilkington in New York, guardian.co.uk, 20 Jan. 2013
John Brennan, the counter-terrorism adviser nominated by President Obama to be the next head of the CIA, has reportedly agreed to exempt agency strikes in Pakistan from a new set of rules that attempts to justify and codify the use of drones to assassinate leaders of al-Qaida and other terrorist groups around the world, including US citizens.
If Mullah Omar married Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and they had a kid in Algeria, and trained him in Afghanistan, and he took further lessons from the examples of John Gotti, and he named his own son after Osama Bin Laden ....
