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Iran said on Thursday it had given U.N. investigators more than 200 pages of answers to questions about intelligence reports that it secretly researched how to make atom bombs and declared "the matter is over."
But Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tehran would heed any requests for clarification after the IAEA chief demanded...

Hillary Clinton will end her presidential bid and declare her support for Barack Obama, she said in a letter on Thursday, concluding a grueling 16-month nominating fight that split the Democratic Party.
Clinton told supporters in the letter she would publicly back Obama on Saturday and also pledge to work for party unity in the general-election race...

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai vowed Thursday to push on with his bid to topple Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll as he returned to the campaign trail a day after being detained by police.
As international outrage continued to swirl around the near nine-hour detention of Tsvangirai on Wednesday, authorities in Zimbabwe insisted that he had only been hauled in for...

The accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty.
"This is what I wish, to be martyred," Pakistani captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the highest-ranking al Qaeda operative in U.S. custody, told the Guantanamo war crimes court.
He and four accused co-conspirators appeared in court...

Zimbabwe police stopped and detained U.S. and British embassy staff, slashing the tires of the cars they were traveling in, on Thursday in a move the U.S. ambassador blamed on the southern African country's government.
"Police put up a roadblock, stopped the vehicles, slashed the tires, reached in and grabbed telephones from my personnel, and the war...

U.S. and British diplomats were attacked Thursday as they tried to investigate political violence in Zimbabwe and a U.S. Embassy staffer was beaten, an embassy spokesman said.
The group was still being held some six hours after being stopped at a roadblock just north of Harare, spokesman Paul Engelstad said.
Britain's Foreign Office...

The US military hearing opened here Thursday of five alleged co-conspirators charged for their role in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The five defendants including the alleged mastermind of the attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, were all present at the hearing, some of them being seen in public for the first time since...

Fallen White House contender Hillary Clinton Thursday promised to throw the full weight of her formidable support behind Democrat Barack Obama as she prepared formally to quit the race.
"I will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama ," the former first lady said...

China has taken steps to tackle toy safety concerns after a string of recalls last year, but authorities should tighten supervision of the sector further, an independent report commissioned by the EU concluded on Thursday.
The European Commission at one point last year threatened to ban toy imports from China after millions of toys had to be recalled...

A U.N. global food crisis summit risked embarrassing failure to reach any formal agreement on combating hunger threatening a billion people worldwide.
Delegates from 183 countries at the Rome talks were supposed to issue a resounding declaration on Thursday on "eliminating hunger and securing food for all."
But squabbling about trade barriers and geopolitics raised the prospect of...

The accused al Qaeda mastermind who said he planned the September 11 attacks "from A to Z" appeared in a U.S. military court for the first time on Thursday with four accused co-conspirators in a Guantanamo war crimes trial that could end with their execution.
Pakistani captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the highest-ranking al Qaeda operative in U.S. custody, sat at a table in the courtroom, looking old and portly...

Five men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks will appear in public for the first time in years Thursday at a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, considered the brains of the attacks, Ramzi Binalshibh , Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Wallid bin Attash and Mustapha al-Hawsawi face the death penalty if convicted by the military commission...

A Danish team has arrived in Pakistan to work with agents investigating a suicide car-bomb attack on Denmark's embassy which al Qaeda said it carried out in revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
The attack on the embassy on Monday killed six people and wounded 25, and followed a lull in attacks...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made his third trip to the earthquake zone on Thursday to inspect a swelling "quake lake" as China looked to the future, planning reconstruction of schools, homes and hospitals reduced to rubble.
Troops have been trying to defuse threats from dozens of unstable lakes in the mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan formed by landslides...

Both the inside and outside of the international space station's newest room were getting spruced up Thursday.
Space shuttle Discovery astronauts Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan Jr. were headed back outside for their second spacewalk in three days to outfit Japan's billion-dollar Kibo lab, which was delivered by the shuttle.
Their objective: to set up TV cameras around Kibo's robotic arm. They will...