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Denmark shared with Pakistani investigators video footage of the suicide car bombing against its embassy Thursday, while an Internet posting purportedly by al-Qaida claimed responsibility and threatened more attacks.
The statement, signed by an al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan, said Monday's attack in Islamabad was carried out to fulfill the promise of Osama...

When the Army began building incinerators to destroy tons of deadly chemical weapons, many feared the worst.
They protested, sued, demanded gas masks for nearby residents and raised the specter of exposure to deadly exhaust.
But now, more than half the nation's aging cache of 31,500 tons of nerve agents and mustard gas...

Myanmar has detained a top activist comedian involved in a private aid effort for cyclone victims, a relative said, as U.S. warships sailed away on Thursday after the military junta refused to accept their aid offer.
Zarganar, who was last detained in the crackdown on fuel price protests in September, was taken from his Yangon home by secret police on Wednesday evening, the family member said, on condition...

Hillary Clinton will declare her strong support for Barack Obama's White House bid and rally supporters around him, she said in a letter on Thursday, drawing the curtain on a grueling 16-month nominating fight that badly split the Democratic Party.
Clinton will publicly back Obama on Saturday and pledge to work for party unity in the general-election...

A 5.3 magnitude aftershock struck China's quake-battered Sichuan province Thursday amid concerns over rising water levels in a lake formed by landslides from the massive May 12 temblor.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the aftershock struck at 12:41 p.m. (12:41 a.m. EDT) just south of the town of Qingchuan at the relatively...

A 5.3 magnitude aftershock struck China's quake-battered Sichuan province Thursday amid concerns over rising water levels in a lake formed by landslides from the massive May 12 temblor.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the aftershock struck at 12:41 p.m. (12:41 a.m. EDT) just south of the town of Qingchuan at the relatively...

Oil up the Winged Wheel, it's time for another victory parade. Hockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup — again. For the fourth time in 11 seasons, the Detroit Red Wings are the Stanley Cup champions. They used experience and grit to knock out the young up-and-coming Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday...

Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader called on Muslims to launch a holy war to break Israel's economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, in an audio recording posted Wednesday on an Islamic militant Internet site.
In the 11-minute tape, a voice purportedly belonging to Ayman al-Zawahri says in Arabic that the "salvation of the Muslim nation is through the march of its sons on...

Hillary Clinton will abandon her White House bid at the end of the week and throw her support to rival Barack Obama, her campaign said Wednesday after she bid an emotional farewell to her loyal staff.
The announcement came a day after Barack Obama secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination...

China, facing emergencies ranging from swollen lakes to rehousing millions after last month's devastating earthquake, is looking to the future, planning a huge reconstruction of schools, homes and hospitals reduced to rubble.
The May 12 quake centered in southwest China's Sichuan province killed 69,122 people with 17,991 more missing and likely dead, according to the latest official figures.
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A Web posting purportedly by al-Qaida Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Denmark's embassy in Pakistan that left six people dead.
The statement said Monday's bombing fulfilled the promise of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden to exact revenge for Danish papers reprinting a cartoon of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
The attack in...

As the Guantanamo war crimes court prepared to arraign five prisoners on death penalty charges of orchestrating the September 11 attacks, a Pentagon official apologized on Wednesday for excluding victims' families from the hearing.
The U.S. military quietly invited one woman whose brother was an American Airlines pilot killed in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon in...

Yang Xueshu knows he wants justice, he just doesn't know where to turn to get it.
His 14-year-old daughter, Yang Ting, died along with more than 400 of her schoolmates when the Xiang'e Middle School came crashing down in China's May 12 earthquake.
Like parents in towns across the region, Yang believes corruption in school construction was...

The United Nations urged the world on Thursday to kick an all-consuming addiction to carbon dioxide and said everyone must take steps to fight climate change.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said global warming was becoming the defining issue of the era and will hurt rich and poor alike.
"Our world is in the grip of a dangerous carbon...

A Web posting late Wednesday purportedly by al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the suicide attack against Denmark's Embassy in Pakistan that left six people dead.
The statement said Monday's bombing in Islamabad was carried out to fulfill the promise of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden to exact revenge over the reprinting in Danish...