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• Is Al Qaeda winning? House hearing probes terror group's status
• Pace of presidential prep picks up
• Report: Syria rebel infighting kills 51 fighters
• Someone Reportedly Threw a Shoe at Hillary Clinton
• U.S. Justice Dept faults Albuquerque police on excessive force
• Spain: A human-rights avenger no longer?
• Drone Images Reveal Buried Ancient Village in New Mexico
• Violence kills 21 in Iraq
• Syria Qaeda loses ground to jihadist rivals on Iraq border
• Violence kills 15 in Iraq
• Officials say car bombs in Iraq's capital kill 16
• Officials say car bomb in Iraq's capital kills 11
• Officials say car bomb in Iraq's capital kills 5
• Syria activists say rebel infighting kills 24
• Iraq scrambles to fight polio surge amid conflict
• At 'Donkey Springs', bombers choke off Iraq oil exports
• Murphy named AP news editor for Tenn., Kentucky
• Tiny sponges could save lives on the battlefield
• 2 Paris exhibits shed light on First World War
• Hagel seeks to increase ties with Mongolia
• Activists: Rebel infighting in Syria kills 24
• Paralyzed No More
• Hagel pushes US military ties with China's neighbour Mongolia
• U.S. defense chief praises Mongolia, given horse during visit
• Soccer-Sydney derby racial abuse claim dismissed
• Wiretap Proponent Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board
• In Mongolia, Hagel looks to bolster US military ties
• We're not in a Cold War with Russia even if it seems we are

Is Al Qaeda winning? House hearing probes terror group's status Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:01 PM PDT "Al Qaeda is not on the verge of defeat," said Representative Poe, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. "Al Qaeda has not been reduced to a few old men hiding somewhere in Pakistan." The core of Al Qaeda in the tribal region of Pakistan has been reduced "thanks to US pressure in recent years," said former Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent, who is now co-chair of the American Internationalism Project at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. But, he added, territory where Al Qaeda affiliates can find sanctuary "has grown dramatically" during this same period, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Pace of presidential prep picks up Posted: 10 Apr 2014 03:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Just about everyone thinking about running for president is kicking it into gear now, slowpokes included.

Report: Syria rebel infighting kills 51 fighters Posted: 10 Apr 2014 03:30 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Fierce infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria killed more than 50 fighters Thursday, an opposition group said, while government shelling left at least four teenagers dead in a town in the country's west.

Someone Reportedly Threw a Shoe at Hillary Clinton Posted: 10 Apr 2014 02:49 PM PDT Hillary Clinton's rousing speech for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting in Las Vegas on Thursday was interrupted when a woman in the audience threw, to use the AP's strange phrasing, "what she described as" a shoe at the former Secretary of State. "Is that somebody throwing something at me?" Clinton asked, trying to see out from the stage at the Mandalay Bay. Obviously, assuming it was actually a shoe, the incident is reminiscent of the famous shoe-throwing moment during the former president's farewell visit to Iraq in 2008:

U.S. Justice Dept faults Albuquerque police on excessive force Posted: 10 Apr 2014 02:19 PM PDT By Joseph Kolb ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department cited the Albuquerque Police Department on Thursday for engaging in what federal civil rights investigators call a pattern of excessive force, some of it deadly, against residents of New Mexico's largest city. A 46-page report capped an 18-month inquiry by the Justice Department following public complaints over a string of police-involved shootings in recent years, many fatal, and what critics have called heavy-handed use of stun guns by Albuquerque officers. The investigation of Albuquerque's police by the Justice Department's civil rights division marked the latest of more than a dozen such probes of local law enforcement agencies across the country. "We have reasonable cause to believe that officers of the Albuquerque Police Department engage in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including unreasonably deadly force," the Justice Department said in a statement, adding that such force was a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Spain: A human-rights avenger no longer? Posted: 10 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT Spain's role as a forum for those seeking justice for human rights abuses may be coming to an end.

Drone Images Reveal Buried Ancient Village in New Mexico Posted: 10 Apr 2014 01:11 PM PDT Thermal images captured by an small drone allowed archaeologists to peer under the surface of the New Mexican desert floor, revealing never-before-seen structures in an ancient Native American settlement. Called Blue J, this 1,000-year-old village was first identified by archaeologists in the 1970s. It sits about 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of the famed Chaco Canyon site in northwestern New Mexico and contains nearly 60 ancestral Puebloan houses around what was once a large spring. Now, the ruins of Blue J are obscured by vegetation and buried in eroded sandstone blown in from nearby cliffs.

Violence kills 21 in Iraq Posted: 10 Apr 2014 12:47 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Shootings and bombings in Iraq killed at least 21 people Thursday, officials said, as the country struggles with rampant violence ahead of parliamentary elections at the end of the month.

Syria Qaeda loses ground to jihadist rivals on Iraq border Posted: 10 Apr 2014 12:17 PM PDT Beirut (AFP) - Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate lost ground to its jihadist rivals around a town on the Iraqi border Thursday in fierce clashes that left at least 51 fighters dead, a monitoring group said.

Violence kills 15 in Iraq Posted: 10 Apr 2014 11:26 AM PDT Shootings and bombings in Iraq killed at least 15 people Thursday, officials said, as the country struggles with rampant violence ahead of parliamentary elections at the end of the month. The country is suffering from a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 2,500 people this year and sparked fears Iraq is slipping back into the all-out sectarian fighting of 2006-2007. The unrest has been driven principally by complaints among the Sunni Arab minority of mistreatment by the Shiite-led government and security forces, and by the civil war in neighbouring Syria. In Thursday's deadliest single incident, gunmen opened fire on a group of young Shiite men in Khales, north of Baghdad, and killed five of them, a police colonel and a doctor said.

Officials say car bombs in Iraq's capital kill 16 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 10:21 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Two car bombs exploded in Shiite neighborhoods of Iraq's capital Thursday night, killing at least 16 people as violence roars on before a crucial election later this month, authorities said.

Officials say car bomb in Iraq's capital kills 11 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 09:55 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say a car bombing in a neighborhood of Iraq's capital, Baghdad, has killed 11 people.

Officials say car bomb in Iraq's capital kills 5 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 09:52 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say a car bombing in a neighborhood of Iraq's capital, Baghdad, has killed five people.

Syria activists say rebel infighting kills 24 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 09:27 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Fierce infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria left some 24 fighters dead on Thursday, while government shelling killed at least four teenagers in a town in the country's west, activists said.

Iraq scrambles to fight polio surge amid conflict Posted: 10 Apr 2014 09:08 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Across parts of Iraq, medical teams in white coats and gloves again roam the streets giving children polio vaccines and marking the walls of their homes, fighting a resurgent virus once more taking advantage of the country's turmoil.

At 'Donkey Springs', bombers choke off Iraq oil exports Posted: 10 Apr 2014 09:07 AM PDT By Ziad al-Sinjary and Ahmed Rasheed MOSUL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants whose bombs have shut Iraq's main northern oil export pipeline for 40 days are preventing repairs, threatening to extend an outage that is already the longest since the days of sanctions in the 1990s. Targeting the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline where it crosses a stretch of desert known as Ain al-Jahash, or Donkey Springs, the saboteurs - described as Islamists by Iraqi officials - have set several more bombs since a first blast halted oil on March 2. Significantly for an Iraqi government hoping for a big rise in exports this year - and long used to brief halts on the route to the Mediterranean - gunmen have also massacred repair crews, prompting oil executives in Mosul to question optimism in Baghdad that the pipeline should be back in action next week. "We have decided to stop all repair operations in Ain al-Jahash until we are sure our crews won't get killed," a senior official of Iraq's North Oil Company told Reuters.

Murphy named AP news editor for Tenn., Kentucky Posted: 10 Apr 2014 08:38 AM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — Brian Murphy, a longtime foreign correspondent who has covered and directed stories from bases in Europe and the Middle East, has been named The Associated Press news editor for Tennessee and Kentucky.

Tiny sponges could save lives on the battlefield Posted: 10 Apr 2014 08:05 AM PDT A simple new method could revolutionize battlefield medicine: a syringe filled with injectable sponges, shot directly into a wound to stop massive bleeding -- a major cause of combat fatalities. This is due largely to an improvement in battlefield first aid during the critical first hour in which the wounded person must be evacuated by helicopter to a hospital. "Hemorrhage is the leading cause of death on the battlefield,"s aid Dr. Anthony Pusateri, portfolio manager of the Department of Defense Hemorrhage and Resuscitation Research and Development Program. The US Food and Drug Administration last week approved the marketing of XStat, a large syringe-like applicator three centimeters in diameter and filled with 92 small tablet-shaped expanding sponges.

2 Paris exhibits shed light on First World War Posted: 10 Apr 2014 07:15 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — Irish photographer Mike Sheil says he knew nothing about military history before he began taking photos of World War I battlefields.

Hagel seeks to increase ties with Mongolia Posted: 10 Apr 2014 06:31 AM PDT After days of high-profile, pressure-filled meetings, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel got to horse around a bit during a short stop in Mongolia on Thursday. Following a time-honored tradition, Mongolian ...

Activists: Rebel infighting in Syria kills 24 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 05:37 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say fierce infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in northeastern Syria along the border with Iraq has killed at least 24 fighters.

Paralyzed No More Posted: 10 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT There's new hope for paralysis patients. A study reports electrical stimulation and physical therapy helped wheelchair-bound patients stand for more than four minutes.

Hagel pushes US military ties with China's neighbour Mongolia Posted: 10 Apr 2014 02:43 AM PDT Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel Thursday endorsed stronger military ties with Mongolia as it seeks a US partnership as a counterweight to its powerful neighbours Russia and China. Hagel and his Mongolian counterpart Dashdemberel Bat-Erdene signed a "joint vision" statement in Ulan Bator calling for expanding military cooperation through joint training and assistance. The document is mostly symbolic but is likely to irritate Beijing, which has accused Washington of trying to hold back its rise by cultivating military ties with smaller Asian neighbours. "A strong US-Mongolia defence relationship is important as part of the American rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region," Hagel told a joint press conference, referring to a strategic "pivot" that China has eyed with concern.

U.S. defense chief praises Mongolia, given horse during visit Posted: 10 Apr 2014 01:04 AM PDT By Phil Stewart ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel praised Mongolian troops and got a horse as a gift during a rare visit on Thursday to the landlocked nation strategically located between China and Russia that sits on vast quantities of untapped mineral wealth. Hagel was the first U.S. defense secretary to visit Mongolia since Donald Rumsfeld stopped there in 2005. "As one of the world's fastest growing economies, Mongolia has a growing stake in regional and global security," he said. Hagel was welcomed to the capital Ulan Bator according to custom, trying dried milk curd upon stepping off the plane at Chinggis Khaan International Airport, named after the country's warrior-emperor.

Soccer-Sydney derby racial abuse claim dismissed Posted: 10 Apr 2014 12:43 AM PDT * Disciplinary committee not satisfied with proof * Sydney FC, Abbas "extremely disappointed" (Adds Sydney FC comments) SYDNEY, April 10 (Reuters) - A Football Federation Australia (FFA) disciplinary committee has dismissed a complaint by Sydney FC midfielder Ali Abbas that he was racially abused in last month's match against Western Sydney Wanderers. Iraq-born Abbas, who became an Australian citizen in 2012, reacted angrily after an exchange with Wanderers striker Brendon Santalab during the derby clash and had to be restrained by his team mates. The FFA statement said Santalab accepted that Ali Abbas genuinely believed he had been racially abused and the committee was not challenging the midfielder's credibility. It continued: "Having regard to the circumstances surrounding the incident particularly the undisputed high noise levels and in the absence of other eyewitness or corroborative evidence, it was possible that Ali Abbas may have misheard what was said by Brendon Santalab." Sydney FC said both the club and Ali Abbas were "extremely disappointed" with the committee's decision.

Wiretap Proponent Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board Posted: 09 Apr 2014 11:51 PM PDT The big story out of Silicon Valley on Wednesday was that Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, was joining the board of popular cloud storage company Dropbox. Tucked away near the end of a Businessweek article on the startup is news of Rice taking a fourth seat on the board: Now she'll help the company think about such matters as international expansion and privacy, an issue that dogs every cloud company in the age of Edward Snowden and the NSA. You know, privacy and the NSA.

In Mongolia, Hagel looks to bolster US military ties Posted: 09 Apr 2014 10:45 PM PDT Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel flew to Mongolia Thursday to endorse stronger military ties with a government eager for US partnership as a counterweight to its powerful neighbours, Russia and China. Hagel's trip to Mongolia, only the second by a US defence secretary and the first in nine years, will feature the signing of a "joint vision" statement between the two sides that calls for expanding military cooperation through joint training and assistance, US officials said. The visit came after a three-day swing through China that was marked by public clashes over Beijing's territorial disputes with its neighbours and its relations with North Korea. The mostly symbolic document to be signed in Ulan Bator is likely to irritate China, which has accused the Americans of seeking to hold back its rise by cultivating military ties with smaller Asian neighbours.

We're not in a Cold War with Russia even if it seems we are Posted: 09 Apr 2014 01:03 PM PDT In a new episode of Political Wire's podcast, we spoke with Nicholas Burns, a longtime ambassador and now a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and about the role that America should play as a world leader in the era of globalization. The media has continually suggested that America and Russia may have re-entered the Cold War in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. So it's a stretch to say that Cold War is back. But Burns said there are some echoes of it: "President Putin has used brute force to take over a piece of territory that wasn't his.

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