Police deployed tear gas and arrested 12 people on Sunday at Jerusalem’s holiest site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram Al-Sharif.
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Suicide attack kills seven in Kabul
A suicide car bomb attack near the Indian Embassy in Kabul killed at least seven people and wounded 60 others on Thursday, officials said, adding that their offices were targeted.
Will airports screen for body signals? Researchers hope so
The days of being able to walk through airport security checkpoints while wearing shoes and a jacket could return if an experimental program proves successful, some Department of Homeland Security officials say. The Homeland Security-funded project is Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST
Indonesia quake toll soars past 400
Another strong earthquake rocked Indonesia early Thursday as the Southeast Asian nation was reeling from an earlier jolt that killed more than 400 people and caused widespread destruction.
Man questioned alleged in terror plot declines more FBI talks
Najibullah Zazi, a Colorado resident and Afghan national questioned in an alleged terrorist plot in the United States, declined to attend a fourth day of interviews with the FBI, his attorney’s publicist told CNN on Saturday.
Democrats fear superdelegates could overrule voters
Some Democrats say they fear their party’s method of picking a nominee might turn undemocratic as neither presidential candidate is likely to gather the delegates needed for the nomination. Federal agents searched Najibullah Zazi’s apartment and another home in the same Denver suburb on Wednesday in connection with the terrorism probe, which emerged Monday with a series of raids in the New York borough of Queens.
Denver apartment searched in terror probe
Officials investigating a possible terror strike by Afghan nationals in New York, on Wednesday searched the Denver, Colorado, apartment of an Afghan man who recently traveled to New York. The man, Naijbullah Zazi, was not at the Denver apartment when the FBI arrived
Blast hits police building in eastern Pakistan
An apparent suicide attack reduced a police building, with at least 200 people inside, to rubble in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday. At least 10 people were killed and 80 wounded, reported CNN affiliate Geo-TV. CNN could not immediately confirm the casualty count.
California fire possibly started by power tool
The wildfire that scorched thousands of acres and destroyed dozens of homes in Southern California this week apparently was started by a power tool clearing brush in the area, fire officials said Sunday. The fire started near a trail in the Santa Barbara, California, area and appears to have been “related to the use of power tool equipment involved in vegetation clearance,” according to the multi-agency group fighting the fires
Report: China intimidated parents of quake victims
Chinese government authorities have intimidated and unlawfully detained parents and relatives of children who died in last year’s Sichuan earthquake and harassed their supporters, an Amnesty International report said this week. The 52-page report, released Sunday and titled “Justice Denied: Harassment of Sichuan Earthquake Survivors and Activists,” documented instances where parents and relatives said they had been detained for up to 21 days for trying to get answers from officials about their children’s deaths. Some said they had been detained several times