Month: December 2010

BAGHDAD—An Iraqi man killed his 19-year-old daughter after he discovered al-Qaida had recruited her as a suicide bomber in an area north of Baghdad, a police spokesman said on Friday. Al-Qaida has been recruiting women […] […]

LONDON—A Russian woman who was detained in Britain on suspicion of spying has been released on bail, her lawyers said Friday. Ekaterina Zatuliveter, a former researcher at the House of Commons for Liberal Democrat lawmaker […] […]

STOCKHOLM—The two Swedish women accusing Julian Assange of sex crimes are supporters of WikiLeaks, not pawns of the CIA, and they simply seek justice for a violation of their “sexual integrity,” their lawyer says. Claes […] […]

LAS VEGAS—Two Las Vegas men pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring with a Navy SEAL and another man to sell machine guns and other weapons smuggled into the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan, the top federal […] […]

BEIJING—A Uighur journalist who worked for an official Chinese radio service was sentenced to life imprisonment for transmitting information about the 2009 ethnic riots in western China—one of dozens jailed since the violence, an overseas […] […]

OTTAWA—Canada may have been the target of a high-pressure sales job to buy the controversial F-35 fighter by a U.S. administration known to use “forceful” diplomacy to cement a deal, leaked diplomatic cables suggest. Memos […] […]

He stepped on the Florida bus as Jack Owens and arrived in Fort Erie as John Morrison. The man walked into Canadian customs like the snowbird he wasn’t. He looked the agents in the eyes […] […]