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‘US probes Tunisian man’ over Libya raid
Update posted on a social media site about the deadly Benghazi attack being seen as a clue by US agencies, website says.
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GOP pounces after news of CIA cable on Libya raid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sensing a moment of political vulnerability on national security, Republicans pounced Friday on disclosures that President Barack Obama’s administration could have known early on that militants, not angry protesters, launched the attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya.…
Feds raid Massachusetts lab tied to meningitis outbreak
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal agents on Tuesday raided the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a widespread meningitis outbreak that has killed 16 people and sickened more than 200 others, federal prosecutors said.
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Man killed in French terror raid
French police shot and fatally wounded a man in an anti-terrorism operation in the French city of Strasbourg, local media reports say.
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Libyan forces raid militia outposts
Libya’s newly-elected president says all militias must come under government authority or disband.
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Clegg says raid pension to get on property ladder
Lib Dem leader proposes parents should help to get their children on the property ladder by using their pension savings as a guarantee
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Bin Laden raid doctor speaks out
The Pakistani doctor involved in the US search for Osama Bin Laden tells Fox News he was unaware that the al-Qaeda leader was their target.
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Mexican boy with gun sparks raid
Mexican police find a large cache of weapons at a home in Hermosillo, in a search sparked by a nine-year-old boy taking a gun to school.
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India police raid coal companies
Police in India are carrying out raids across 10 cities as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in the allocation of coalfields.
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Pakistani troops killed in raid on army post
Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for attack in South Waziristan tribal area that left nine soldiers dead.
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Ecuador says Britain withdraws threat to raid embassy in Assange standoff
QUITO (Reuters) – Britain has withdrawn a threat to enter Ecuador’s embassy in London to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has taken refuge there, President Rafael Correa said on Saturday, taking the heat out of the diplomatic standoff.
Turkey says Kurdish fighters killed in raid
Government says security operation in the southeast followed bomb attack that killed five soldiers in Hakkari district.
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SEAL to release book on bin Laden raid
A book company said Wednesday that it will release on September 11 a firsthand account of the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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Dozens killed in Syria air raid on rebel town
Children among dozens dead in Azaz, 45km north of Aleppo, after attacks reduce a row of residential homes to rubble.
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‘Massive raid’ reported in heart of Damascus
Rebels claim to shoot down fighter jet in Deir Ezzor, as fighting rages in Aleppo and mass arrests reported in capital.
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Egypt army in deadly Sinai raid
Seven gunmen are killed by the Egyptian army in the Sinai peninsula during an offensive against suspected Islamist militants, security officials say.
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Man dies in Portugal drugs raid
Nine people are arrested and one dies in a Portuguese operation aimed at a ring trafficking hashish from Morocco to Spain, police say.
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Residents slept through bank raid
Raiders smash into the wall of a bank with a mechanical digger but nearby residents in a Suffolk town sleep through undisturbed.
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Admiral talks of bin Laden raid
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer sits down with Adm. William McRaven and asks him about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Deadly raid on Ivory Coast UN-protected camp
Seven killed when angry youths torched the camp in the unstable west of the country, despite presence of UN soldiers.
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