The targeting of the Pakistan Taliban leader showed US willingness to pursue Pakistani priorities. The US may now push for more help in finding Pakistan-based militants who operate in Afghanistan.
Friday, the US Trade Representative will hold a hearing on a US Steelworkers' proposal to cut imports in half. Last year, the US imported about 46 million tires from China.
A growing number of policy makers say that the world’s rising temperatures, surging seas and melting glaciers are a direct threat to the national interest.
AP - Divers recovered a piece of a submerged helicopter and a fifth body Sunday as investigators searched the Hudson River for wreckage from the helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair, killing nine people.
AP - A typhoon pummeled China's eastern coast Sunday, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to safety. Officials rode bicycles to distribute food to residents trapped by rising waters.
AP - Police and judiciary officials sought on Sunday to calm public outrage in Iran over the deaths of detained protesters in prison, acknowledging abuses and calling for those responsible to be punished.
Police divers pulled a fifth body from the murky waters of the Hudson River today as investigators searched for clues to the cause of Saturday's fatal collision between a small plane and a helicopter over the river. "There are still four more [victims]," Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters, referring to the nine people who were aboard the two aircraft.
Forty prison inmates were sent to hospitals, four of them airlifted, after a riot erupted at the California Institution for Men in Chino, a spokesman said. The melee broke out Saturday night at the Reception Center West facility, said Lt. Mark Hargrove, prison spokesman. The inmates' injuries ranged from stab wounds and slashes to head trauma, Hargrove said.
At least one person was killed today as Typhoon Morakot slammed into eastern China. Nearly a million people had been evacuated from Fujian and Zhejiang provinces as Morakot approached. Late Friday, the storm lashed Taiwan, killing two people, according to local radio.
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