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• Anonymous critics to Dropbox: Drop Condoleezza Rice, or we'll drop you
• Longtime Wisconsin GOP Rep. Tom Petri to retire
• Reporters who broke Snowden story return to U.S. for first time
• Syria war deepens fears for Lebanon's missing
• US senators file bill to take Kurdish groups off terror list
• Syria death toll from rebel infighting rises to 68
• Iraq Sunni Leader Survives Attack By Government Forces
• A look at the missing in Middle East's conflicts
• Gunmen attack Iraq deputy PM's convoy, killing guard
• Lebanon in vaccination drive against polio spreading from Syria
• Overcoming looting and years of war, Iraq Museum moves to reopen
• '86 dead' as Syria's Qaeda, allies repel jihadists
• Iraq's deputy PM escapes assassination attempt
• Tax refund fraud is a big frustration for victims
• Carter, Dole wives to aid White House troop effort
• Iraq insurgents use water as weapon after seizing dam
• Big Data’s War on Crime
• Syria death toll from rebel infighting jumps to 68
• Hezbollah fighters say a 'duty' to help Syria's Assad
• Today in History
• People Pleased With Themselves For Throwing Stuff at Politicians, Ranked
• Obama's military budget mistake

Anonymous critics to Dropbox: Drop Condoleezza Rice, or we'll drop you Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:53 PM PDT When Dropbox CEO Drew Houston announced on Wednesday that the company had appointed Condoleezza Rice, former US secretary of State, to its board of directors, he might have expected some skepticism.

Longtime Wisconsin GOP Rep. Tom Petri to retire Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:44 PM PDT MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Petri announced Friday that he plans to retire, ending a 35-year career as a moderate Republican from east-central Wisconsin.

Reporters who broke Snowden story return to U.S. for first time Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:20 PM PDT By Curtis Skinner NEW YORK (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the U.S. journalists who reported on spy agency analyst Edward Snowden's leaks exposing mass government surveillance, returned to the United States on Friday for the first time since revealing the programs in 2013. Greenwald and Poitras flew into New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on the same flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to receive a George Polk journalism award for their reports on how the U.S. government has secretly gathered information on millions of Americans, among other revelations. Their reporting on the leaks, which began last June, has sparked international debate over the limits of government surveillance and prompted President Barack Obama to introduce curbs to the spying powers of the National Security Agency earlier this year. "I really didn't expect anything to happen, which is why we finally came," Greenwald told reporters after embracing his partner, David Miranda, who had earlier said he was nervous as he waited for Greenwald to pass through airport security.

Syria war deepens fears for Lebanon's missing Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:37 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — For 22 years, Mary Mansourati has been waiting for her son, Dani, to come home. His shirts are ironed and hanging in his closet. His trousers, neatly folded, are stacked on the shelves next to his bed in the family's Beirut apartment.

US senators file bill to take Kurdish groups off terror list Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT Two prominent US senators introduced legislation Friday that would remove Iraqi Kurdish organizations KDP and PUK from a terrorist blacklist. The Obama administration supports the move, which officials have said requires legislative action rather than an executive order from the White House. Washington designated the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan as terrorist groups in 2001 in part for their insurgent activity in the 1990s Kurdish civil war.

Syria death toll from rebel infighting rises to 68 Posted: 11 Apr 2014 12:21 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — The death toll from infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in an eastern Syrian town has risen 68 killed, with some shot after being captured alive, activists said Friday.

Iraq Sunni Leader Survives Attack By Government Forces Posted: 11 Apr 2014 12:01 PM PDT ABU GHRAIB, Iraq, April 11, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Saleh Mutlaq, chairman of Iraq's Al Arabiya Coalition and currently deputy prime minister of Iraq, survived an armed attack on his convoy at the entrance to the al Anbar governorate this morning.  One of Dr. Saleh's bodyguards was seriously injured, as were two soldiers with the 9th Division of the Iraqi Army, which initiated fire against Mutlaq's convoy. State-controlled Iraqi news stations are reporting that Mutlaq was attacked by armed insurgents and was rescued by the military.  Eyewitnesses and members of Mutlaq's security detail challenge this characterization and assert that uniformed members of the 9th Division of the Iraqi Army opened fire on the deputy prime minister's convoy at 150 meters.  Mutlaq's detail returned fire, advanced on the attackers, who retreated, and took two injured soldiers with them back to Baghdad where they are being treated at a military hospital.

A look at the missing in Middle East's conflicts Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:12 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese families have long sought to know the fates of the missing from the country's civil war and post-war years, and now the civil war in Syria is adding yet another generation to the long rolls of missing from the Middle East's conflicts. Here is a look at the numbers from several countries in the region.

Gunmen attack Iraq deputy PM's convoy, killing guard Posted: 11 Apr 2014 10:36 AM PDT Gunmen attacked Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlak's convoy in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad on Friday, killing a guard and wounding at least five, officials said. The attack on one of the country's most senior Sunni Arab politicians comes less than three weeks before a contentious parliamentary election, the first since American troops left, which will be a major test for security forces. "Mr Mutlak is safe and was not hurt," an assistant to the deputy premier, who was travelling in the convoy, told AFP. While an interior ministry official said only that gunmen attacked the convoy, Mutlak's assistant specifically blamed the army.

Lebanon in vaccination drive against polio spreading from Syria Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:43 AM PDT Lebanon launched a fourth round of polio immunisation on Friday, trying to prevent the disease spreading from neighboring Syria along with the tide of refugees fleeing the three-year conflict. Protection against polio requires several vaccinations but aid workers are concerned that coverage in Lebanon has been falling off because parents were unaware of the need for multiple inoculation. The announcement earlier this week that polio had been detected in Iraq, the first of Syria's neighbors to be hit by the virus, has added to fears that it could spread further. The campaign in Lebanon targets around 600,000 Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian infants aged up to five.

Overcoming looting and years of war, Iraq Museum moves to reopen Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:16 AM PDT Lamia al-Gailani pulls a folder of crumbling letters from a battered metal cabinet – part of what she considers the secret treasures of the Iraq Museum. The cabinets hold archives from the beginnings of the venerable institution, established after World War I by Gertrude Bell, the famed British administrator, writer, and explorer. Hundreds of thousands of documents and photographs, neglected until now, hold the untold story of an emerging nation whose borders "Miss Bell" helped to draw. She pulls out photographs of the Iraq pavilion at the 1938 Paris Expo and a yellowing, typewritten letter from 1921 confirming the appointment of Bell as honorary museum director.

'86 dead' as Syria's Qaeda, allies repel jihadists Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:12 AM PDT Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate and its allies have repulsed an assault by jihadist rivals on a town on the Iraqi border in fighting that killed 86 people, a monitoring group said Friday. Sixty of the dead were fighters of Al-Nusra Front or its Islamist allies killed pushing back their Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) rivals from districts of Albu Kamal they had captured early Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP the rebels regained full control of Albu Kamal after reinforcements poured in.

Iraq's deputy PM escapes assassination attempt Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:48 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's deputy prime minister escaped an assassination attempt in which militants dressed as soldiers opened fire on his convoy west of Baghdad on Friday, according to an Iraqi lawmaker and a statement from the deputy premier's office.

Tax refund fraud is a big frustration for victims Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:29 AM PDT TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Laura Hankins knew something was wrong when she filed her daughter's tax return and it was rejected hours later: An identity thief already had sent in a return using the 19-year-old's personal information.

Carter, Dole wives to aid White House troop effort Posted: 11 Apr 2014 04:27 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama and Jill Biden are offering relief to millions of people who care for wounded service members and veterans.

Iraq insurgents use water as weapon after seizing dam Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:38 AM PDT Insurgents in Iraq have added water to their arsenal of weapons after seizing control of a dam in the west of the country that enables them to flood certain areas and prevent security forces from advancing against them. The dam helps distribute water from the Euphrates river on its course through the western province of Anbar, and is located some 5 km south of the city of Falluja, which was overrun by militants early this year. Iraqi troops have since been surrounding Falluja and shelling the city in an effort to dislodge anti-government tribes and insurgent factions including the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The militants closed all eight of the dam's 10 gates one week ago, flooding land upstream and reducing water levels in Iraq's southern provinces, through which the Euphrates flows before emptying into the Gulf.

Big Data’s War on Crime Posted: 11 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT Fourteen years after Cure Violence started in Chicago, studies show its tactics—which treat violence as a "disease" to be contained—are working. It's newest partner? Syria.

Syria death toll from rebel infighting jumps to 68 Posted: 11 Apr 2014 12:35 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say the death toll from infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria has jumped to 68.

Hezbollah fighters say a 'duty' to help Syria's Assad Posted: 11 Apr 2014 12:03 AM PDT Bint Jbeil (Lebanon) (AFP) - As he pushes a cart full of tomatoes and cucumbers in the market at Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, nothing marks out Mahmud as an experienced Hezbollah fighter. The stocky vegetable vendor in his fifties, who sports a red beard, fought Israel here in 2006, but that battle is now old news. He has just come back from another front: in Syria, where he fought for 25 days against the rebels who have sought to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad for the past three years. Since the Shiite movement's chief Hassan Nasrallah gave the order more than a year ago, thousands of Hezbollah fighters have fought in Syria, playing a decisive role in key victories for the regime.

Today in History Posted: 10 Apr 2014 09:01 PM PDT Today is Friday, April 11, the 101st day of 2013. There are 264 days left in the year.

People Pleased With Themselves For Throwing Stuff at Politicians, Ranked Posted: 10 Apr 2014 07:55 PM PDT As Hillary Clinton learned today, there is a long tradition of political figures getting stuff thrown at them. Welsh farmer Craig Evans thought it would be pretty funny and harmless to throw an egg at a 62-year-old out-of-shape man in 2001, but he apparently didn't realize that Prescott was once an amateur boxer. Sarah Palin stopped by the Mall of America in 2009 to sign copies of her autobiography. Jeremy Paul Olson threw two tomatoes at her, but missed her by such a wide margin that she never even knew it happened.

Obama's military budget mistake Posted: 10 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT The U.S.S. George Washington, one of the Navy's 11 aircraft carriers, needs money for fuel. It takes several years to refuel an aircraft carrier, at a cost of more than $1 billion. At a time when NATO, the Pentagon is shrinking its budget, part of President Obama's . Congress insists that the Navy keep 11 carriers afloat.

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