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KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a U.S.-Afghan air strike in Afghanistan, a senior Afghan Defence Ministry official said on Friday, a killing likely to ease tension between the United States and Pakistan. Mullah Fazlullah in an undated photo. U.S. Department of State/via REUTERS An official at the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan confirmed Fazlullah was killed on Thursday. The U.S. military said earlier in Washington it had carried out a strike aimed at a senior militant figure in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, which is on the Pakistani border, and...

By Israel News Agency Staff Jerusalem, Israel --- March 24, 2013 … Russian media sources have confirmed that Syria President Bashar Assad was shot by an Iranian bodyguard Saturday night. "The lone assassination pumped several bullets at point blank range into Assad," said the source. "Assad was rushed to Al-Shami Hospital in Damascus in critical condition. He died on the operating table from heart failure resulting from massive blood loss." An Israeli security analyst believes the report to be accurate. "In the last 24 hours have we seen Assad? Any photographs or video? No. Nor will we see any as...

SENIOR AL QAEDA COMMANDER ABU SAEED AL-MASRI KILLED IN PAKISTAN - SECURITY OFFICIAL

CHILDREN watched in horror as a Santa Claus collapsed and died as he handed out presents at a Christmas party. Andrew Robertson, 82, took ill as excited youngsters were being given their gifts. He was taken to a side room, still dressed in a Father Christmas outfit, and attempts were made to revive him. But when medics arrived, he was pronounced dead. Mr Robertson, from Dundee, had played Santa for several years at the city’s Broughty Castle Bowling Club’s Christmas party, which is held for the grandchildren of members.

DENVER - Hunter S. Thompson, the "gonzo journalist" with a penchant for drugs, guns and flamethrower prose, might have one more salvo in store for everyone: Friends and relatives want to blast his ashes out of a cannon, just as he wished. "If that's what he wanted, we'll see if we can pull it off," said historian Douglas Brinkley, a friend of Thompson's and now the family's spokesman. Thompson, who shot himself to death at his Aspen-area home Sunday at 67, said several times he wanted an artillery send-off for his remains. "There's no question, I'm sure that's what he...

AP News Alert ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- The son of Hunter S. Thompson says the author shot himself to death at his Aspen-area home.

On Kerry, Bush and bin Laden By B Raman In his campaign for election as president of the United States, Democratic Senator John Kerry has been blaming incumbent President George W Bush for the failure to capture or kill Osama bin Laden during the battle at Tora Bora in Afghanistan toward the end of 2001. According to Kerry, the US failure was due to the fact that instead of using US troops in the battle, Bush outsourced the job to the Afghan warlords, who let bin Laden escape. Kerry's claims are partly true and partly incorrect. They are true to...

Soldiers hunting terror kingpins Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar have come close to catching them several times, it was reported yesterday. American and Afghan soldiers muffed their best chance a few months ago, when they brushed by Omar in Uruzgan Province but failed to recognize the one-eyed cleric, according to Newsweek. The ousted Taliban leader and his security detachment had stopped at a local mosque for afternoon prayers when several Humvees and pickup trucks carrying American and Afghan soldiers pulled up. The Afghan soldiers entered the mosque, but Omar kept his cool, telling his men to hide their...

Activists: Estate tax repeal will cost Maine $166 million-year Monday,October20,2003,10:54 AM AUGUSTA (AP) -- Activists opposing the permanent repeal of the estate tax are saying the repeal will force more federal borrowing and deflect money for needed state programs into the pockets of the wealthiest two percent of Americans. The group released two reports Monday morning detailing the impact of repeal on Maine's biennial budget and nonprofit organizations in Maine. Unless the estate tax is permanently repealed, it will disappear in 2010 and reappear a year later. A 2001 law gradually reduced the tax rates on inherited estates and...

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LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- The state has executed a man convicted of stabbing and strangling an 18-year-old college student after he lured her to a bogus job interview. Richard E. Fox, 47, died by injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He had confessed to the slaying, and his attorneys last week said there were no legal issues left to review. It was Ohio's sixth execution since the state resumed the death penalty in 1999. "He's been very upbeat, spending the last few hours with his family members," said Andrea Dean, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, hours...

Crime-scene photo unsettling to some 01/25/2003 By JACQUIELYNN FLOYD / The Dallas Morning News The large photograph that appeared in Friday's paper - the trade argot is "centerpiece art" - gave rise to a lot of discussion by virtue of having had a dead person in it. The picture was taken outside a Far North Dallas home, where a resident had shot and killed two intruders who tried to break in early Thursday. One of the apparent burglars died in the apartment, and the other collapsed and died outside. A photographer for The Dallas Morning News captured what is...

TURLOCK -- Jerry Dock McClain drove 1,500 miles from Texas to Turlock with plans to rendezvous with a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet and whisk her away to Mexico, police say. Instead, the 65-year-old retired Navy veteran was whisked away -- to jail -- after his arrest by detectives with the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force. McClain's arrest was the 30th that Detective Ken Hedrick has made in the past 30 months -- a string that drew the attention of ABC Television's "Good Morning America." The show plans to profile the latest case Friday. The investigation began...