The release of an Iranian-American journalist underlines divisions within Iran’s leadership about how to respond to President Obama’s recent overtures, as Iranian elections loom.
AP - After three decades of fighting in court, suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk was deported from the United States to Germany on Tuesday to face allegations of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others at the Sobibor death camp.
AP - The financial health of the government's two biggest benefit programs may have slipped over the past year, reflecting the deep recession that has already bitten into other areas of the budget.
AP - A mortar shell struck the only functioning medical facility in Sri Lanka's northern war zone Tuesday, throwing bloody bodies into the dirt outside and killing 49 people, a government health official said. It was the second time this month the hospital was hit.
Surviving members of an Iraqi family said they are haunted by a murder rampage committed by a gang of U.S. soldiers. The relatives testified in the sentencing phase of a trial in which one of the soldiers has been convicted and may face the death penalty. Family members said their lives have been ruined and it would be better if the soldiers had also killed them. Defendant Steven Green was convicted last week of murder and rape.
A suspected U.S. drone attack on a village in Pakistan's tribal region killed nine people and wounded four others Tuesday morning, a Pakistani intelligence source and a regional official said.
A U.S. soldier fired on his fellow troops at a counseling center at a base outside Baghdad on Monday, U.S. officials said, killing five people in the worst such attack of the six-year war.
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