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• The Latest: SEAL to be buried at national cemetery
• SEAL trainee dies during basic training
• White House sends high-court pick's questionnaire to Senate
• Two female US Marines assigned to infantry
• Former U.S. Secretary of State Baker praises Saudi Aramco IPO plans
• Adriane Ohanesian wins prize named for AP photographer
• Jordan boosts animal welfare at famed Petra tourist site
• New Jersey man gets 15 years in prison for role in Islamic State plot
• Freed Spanish journalist feared being sold to IS in Syria
• Erdogan says Europe a safe haven for political wings of terrorist groups
• Bomb attack on police vehicle in Turkey's Diyarbakir kills three: sources
• Man kills one at Munich station
• Germany expanding military ranks to counter Islamist, cyber threats
• Germany to increase troops for first time since Cold War ended
• In battle for Turkish identity, an old Ottoman victory takes center stage
• The U.S. Military Is Failing to Support Its Sickest Kids
• Iraq officials: Suicide bomb kills at least 13 near Baghdad
• IWMF Names Adriane Ohanesian Winner of the Second Annual Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award
• Senior Islamic State official in Iraq killed in air strike: Pentagon

The Latest: SEAL to be buried at national cemetery Posted: 10 May 2016 04:58 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Latest on the burial of U.S. Navy SEAL Charles Keating (all times local):

SEAL trainee dies during basic training Posted: 10 May 2016 04:54 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 21-year-old Navy SEAL trainee died last week during his first week of basic training in Coronado, California, a Navy spokesman said Tuesday.

White House sends high-court pick's questionnaire to Senate Posted: 10 May 2016 03:50 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland detailed his most significant cases in thousands of pages of documents submitted to Congress Tuesday, including his role as a federal prosecutor in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing case and the prosecution of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.

Two female US Marines assigned to infantry Posted: 10 May 2016 03:35 PM PDT The US Marine Corps is assigning two women to frontline infantry roles, a first for the armed service under new Pentagon rules opening all combat jobs to women. In a statement Tuesday, the Marine Corps said it had granted requests from two enlisted women to transfer into "ground combat arms specialties." One will become a machinegunner, the other a rifleman. "Requests like these help the Marine Corps to continue the implementation of gender integration throughout all Military Occupational Specialties," the Marines said.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Baker praises Saudi Aramco IPO plans Posted: 10 May 2016 12:57 PM PDT Saudi Arabia needs "fundamental change" and a public sale of shares in Saudi Aramco, the national oil company, may be part of the solution, former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker said on Tuesday. Baker, who served under President George H.W. Bush and joined a U.S. delegation to meet Saudi Arabia's new king last year, told a gathering of oil industry dealmakers that changes like the Aramco IPO could help the kingdom address unemployment and budget deficits amid weak oil prices.

Adriane Ohanesian wins prize named for AP photographer Posted: 10 May 2016 12:15 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Kenya-based freelance photojournalist Adriane Ohanesian, who has documented conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan, has won an award for courage named for an Associated Press photographer killed on assignment in Afghanistan in 2014.

Jordan boosts animal welfare at famed Petra tourist site Posted: 10 May 2016 11:42 AM PDT Stables and a clinic have been installed at Jordan's famous Petra tourist site for overworked and sometimes mistreated horses and donkeys used to transport visitors. More than 1,300 horses and donkeys work at the fabled rose-red city hewn from rock, an attraction which also provides a living for some 8,000 people. In March last year, the Vienna-based international animal charity Four Paws and Jordan's Princess Alia Foundation began a project aimed at improving the lives of the working animals at Petra.

New Jersey man gets 15 years in prison for role in Islamic State plot Posted: 10 May 2016 11:39 AM PDT A New Jersey man was sentenced on Tuesday to a maximum 15 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to support Islamic State that prosecutors say involved six men in New York and New Jersey. Alaa Saadeh, 24, pleaded guilty to one conspiracy count in October, four months after federal prosecutors charged him with helping his younger brother, Nader, travel overseas to join the militant group. The Saadeh brothers were also in contact with Munther Omar Saleh, a college student from the New York City borough of Queens who was charged with planning to set off an explosive device in the city, according to prosecutors.

Freed Spanish journalist feared being sold to IS in Syria Posted: 10 May 2016 10:29 AM PDT One of three Spanish journalists released after nearly a year held hostage in Syria by an Al Qaeda-linked group said Tuesday he feared being sold to the Islamic State group, which regularly kills captives. If they are going to kill you, release you or sell you to another terrorist group," Angel Sastre said in an interview with online newspaper El Espanol. "The simple idea that they could sell me to Daesh terrified me," he added, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

Erdogan says Europe a safe haven for political wings of terrorist groups Posted: 10 May 2016 09:31 AM PDT By Tulay Karadeniz and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused European nations on Tuesday of being safe havens for the political wings of terrorist groups and said it was a "black comedy" for the Europe Union to lecture Ankara on changing its anti-terrorism laws. The EU last week asked member states to grant visa-free travel to Turks in return for Ankara stopping migrants reaching Europe, but said Turkey still had to change some legislation, including bringing its terrorism laws into line with EU standards.

Bomb attack on police vehicle in Turkey's Diyarbakir kills three: sources Posted: 10 May 2016 09:21 AM PDT A car bomb killed three people and wounded 45 when it struck a police vehicle on Tuesday in Diyarbakir, the main city in southeastern Turkey where security forces are trying to crush a Kurdish militant insurgency, the governor's office said. Explosives in the vehicle were detonated from a distance as an armored police van passed, wounding 12 police officers, the governor's office said. Five of the wounded were inmates being moved while under police custody, a security source said.

Man kills one at Munich station Posted: 10 May 2016 08:15 AM PDT By Joern Poltz and Jens Hack MUNICH (Reuters) - A German man suffering from psychiatric problems stabbed four people at a train station near Munich early on Tuesday, killing one man and wounding three more in an attack investigators said did not appear to be politically motivated. Witnesses said the alleged assailant, a 27-year-old unemployed carpenter, attacked his first victim shouting "Allahu Akbar" ('God is Greatest' in Arabic). The man received psychiatric treatment just two days ago and has confessed to using drugs, investigators said.

Germany expanding military ranks to counter Islamist, cyber threats Posted: 10 May 2016 08:03 AM PDT Germany plans to add 7,000 military jobs and 4,400 civilians to its armed forces over the next seven years to help tackle demands such as cybersecurity and the fight against Islamic State, its defense minister said on Tuesday. Ursula von der Leyen said the move marked the first increase in the size of the German military since the end of the Cold War and was part of a broader campaign that has revamped the way the military buys equipment and prepares its budgets. It is time for the German armed forces to grow," she told reporters.

Germany to increase troops for first time since Cold War ended Posted: 10 May 2016 07:18 AM PDT Germany is raising the number of its troops for the first time since 1990, ending a quarter of a century of successive cuts in the army since the end of the Cold War. The Bundeswehr is expected to increase in the next seven years by 14,300 soldiers, while 4,400 civilian officers will also be added to the service, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said. Germany is preparing to join efforts to bolster NATO's presence on its eastern flank bordering Russia, in a bid to reassure east European alliance members rattled by Moscow's annexation of Crimea.

In battle for Turkish identity, an old Ottoman victory takes center stage Posted: 10 May 2016 05:22 AM PDT President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently accused his nation of "trying to bury our own history" by overlooking the 1916 siege of Kut, when Ottoman forces captured the British-held fort on the Tigris River during World War I. Recommended: Think you know Turkey? It was the latest example of the rehabilitation – enthusiastically spearheaded by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) – of the Ottoman Empire, whose collapse following World War I paved the way for the creation of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

The U.S. Military Is Failing to Support Its Sickest Kids Posted: 10 May 2016 04:30 AM PDT The military health-care system serves 2 million children, but there are only a handful of full-time pediatric social workers across the Defense Department's sprawling network of hospitals. In the civilian world, this kind of staffing is "unimaginable."

Iraq officials: Suicide bomb kills at least 13 near Baghdad Posted: 10 May 2016 03:08 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — An evening suicide bombing in a commercial area in a city northeast of Baghdad killed at least 13 people, Iraqi officials said Tuesday as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.

IWMF Names Adriane Ohanesian Winner of the Second Annual Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award Posted: 09 May 2016 09:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON, May 10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is pleased to announce Adriane Ohanesian as the winner of the 2016 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. Now in its second year, the award was created through a generous grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation to pay tribute to the strength and dedication of Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was tragically killed while reporting in Afghanistan in 2014. Niedringhaus received the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award in 2005.

Senior Islamic State official in Iraq killed in air strike: Pentagon Posted: 09 May 2016 06:15 PM PDT An air strike by a U.S.-led coalition killed a senior Islamic State official in Iraq last week, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday. The strike on May 6 killed Abu Wahib, Islamic State's chief military official in Anbar province, said Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook. The strike was on a vehicle carrying Abu Wahib, also known as Shakir Wahib, and three other Islamic State members near the town of Rutba, Cook said.

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