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“We had to absolutely prepare for a catastrophic terrorism incident,” says an FBI Special Agent involved in planning security for the 2008 Republican Convention, “and the planning ideology that …

Peshawar - Mining gems and other valuable minerals may provide, the Pakistan government hopes, alternate careers to militancy in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), bordering Afghanistan. …

A summer evening. 1990. Perfect weather. My wife and I are with Hungarian friends, eating at a sidewalk café on a tree-lined street in Budapest. They’re troubled. …

Kabul, Afghanistan - Twenty people were killed in a suicide attack Sunday on the governor’s compound in Chaharikar in the central province of Parwan, Afghan officials said. …

Washington - A new Congressional push to sanction Iran's Central Bank is aimed at reducing Iranian oil revenues, but could backfire and hurt the global economy. …

(Image: JR / Truthout) Barcelona - The number of women murdered is increasing in most of Central America and Mexico. In some countries, such as Honduras, the …

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives on stage for an event at Keiser University's Sarasota campus, in Sarasota, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New …

Demonstrators react during a march through city center Hama, in Syria, July 16, 2011. “Come on Bashar, leave,” is a song that in the weeks since it was heard …

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a Republican presidential candidate, attends a campaign event in Ames, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2011. Pawlenty announced this morning he is ending his candidacy …

Verizon workers on strike on August 9. (Photo: modernsara) The picket lines are up. This past weekend 45,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast, represented by the …