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Libyan al Qaeda suspect dies days before trial date A Libyan man suspected of plotting al Qaeda's 1998 bombings of US embassies in Africa has died days before he was to stand trial. Abu Anas al Libi had been ailing from advanced liver cancer. Al Libi, who was captured by US troops in a raid in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in...

Indonesia search chief: 'Large objects' spotted in AirAsia hunt Indonesia's search and rescue chief has said two "large objects" have been found in the search for an AirAsia plane that went missing over the Java Sea. The grim task of retrieving bodies has been continuing. Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said on Saturday that two large objects...

'Ghost ship' migrants arrive safely in Italy A migrant ship, abandoned by human traffickers, has arrived in the southern Italian port of Corigiliano Calabro. Some 450 passengers were relieved to disembark the vessel after being stranded on board. According to Italian media, most of the migrants found on the 73-metre-long (240-foot-long) "ghost ship" were from Syria, where millions of people have...

Extra US sanctions for N. Korea film studio hack? US President Barack Obama has imposed sanctions on North Korea in the wake of November's hack on Sony Pictures. The Hollywood studio made the madcap film about a fictional CIA plot to assassinate the North's leader. US President Obama signed an executive order on Friday authorizing initial sanctions to punish Pyongyang over...

Donna Douglas, Elly May on 'Beverly Hillbillies,' dead at 81 (CNN) -- Donna Douglas, who played voluptuous tomboy daughter Elly May Clampett on the 1960s TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. She was 81. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, TV station WAFB, a CNN affiliate, reported that Douglas died Friday morning. Douglas lived in Zachary, Louisiana. Her assistant, Jeffrey Dalrymple, confirmed her passing...

7-year-old survives plane crash that kills 4 in Kentucky (CNN) -- A small plane went down in western Kentucky Friday evening, killing four people, according to Sgt. Dean Patterson with the Kentucky State Police. A 7-year-old girl was the only survivor. She was taken to a local hospital with "non-life threatening injuries," Patterson said. A resident in the area called 911 after...

OIC Chief to Visit Palestine Sunday Jeddah, January 02 (QNA) -Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Madani will visit Palestine on Sunday for talks with President Mahmoud Abbas, OIC said in a statement. During the two-day visit, Madani will also visit the Aqsa Mosque.     Read the full text news resource site… Source News: qna.org.qa

Afghan soldiers arrested for wedding deaths Soldiers were responsible for a rocket strike that caused the death of nearly 20 wedding guests on New Year's Day, officials say. The tragedy overshadowed Afghanistan's official takeover of national security from NATO. At least two Afghan soldiers are to be court-martialed in connection with a rocket strike that killed 17 wedding guests, mostly women...

Official: Fire extinguished in Libya’s al-Sidr port Firefighters work to put out the fire of a storage oil tank at the port of Es Sider in Ras Lanuf December 29, 2014. (Reuters) A fire that has raged in the al-Sidra oil port in eastern Libya for one week has been put out, an official said, according to the Al Arabiya News...

Palestine seeks ICC probe into ‘Israeli war crimes’ A Palestinian woman takes some of her belongings from her destroyed home in Gaza City was targeted by Israeli airstrikes. The Palestinian Authority has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate crimes committed in the Palestinian territories since June 13, 2014, ICC sources have said. The investigation if launched could focus on...

Gunmen kill 3 Sunni clerics in Iraqi city of Basra/h2> Mourners attend the funerals of two senior Shi'ite militia commanders who were killed fighting ISIS militants in Baghdad, Dec. 30, 2014. Iraq’s sectarian violence peaked in 2006-07, when thousands of Shiites and Sunnis perished in attacks. Gunmen killed three Sunni clerics near the mostly Shiite city of Basra in southern...

Search team recovers 30 bodies from missing AirAsia flight Rescue teams working to recover victims from the AirAsia flight 8501 have recovered 30 corpses. According to an Indonesian navy official said some of the dead were still strapped in their seats. The number of recovered bodies almost tripled on Friday, after 21 of the 162 passengers and crew were found, many...

India policemen abscond after allegedly raping 14-year-old girl Two policemen are on the run after allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in northern India. The constables are accused of abducting the girl from her village on Thursday. According to Press Trust of India (PTI), the incident took place the Badaun district, in Uttar Pradesh state - the same district where two cousins...

Kenyan court suspends new anti-terrorism laws After only two weeks in effect, some of Kenya's high court has shelved controversial terrorism laws. Nairobi argues that the measures are necessary for national security. The High Court of Kenya suspended two-week old security laws on Friday, amid doubts over their constitutionality. When measures were signed into law by President Uhuru Kenyatta, the president...