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WASHINGTON—It is unlikely many Americans will lose sleep over the distinction, but as the fog of war lifts and anger at Pakistan builds, the death of Osama bin Laden now appears to constitute outright execution. […] […]

Muslim clerics said yesterday that Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets. A wide range of Islamic scholars […] […]

American President Barack Obama said the world was a safer place after the demise of Osama bin Laden but supporters of the terrorists were already discussing avenging the terrorist leader’s death. Calling it a “good […] […]

MORE than four out of five pubs in Germany make use of legal loopholes or flout the rules to allow people to smoke, almost three years after a ban, a study by health campaigners showed. […] […]

THE US did not warn Pakistani officials about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound because of fears they might tip off the al Qaeda leader, CIA Director Leon Panetta said in an interview. “It […] […]

PAKISTAN’S president said yesterday accusations that his nation extends safe haven to extremists were “baseless” and insisted its long-term help was crucial to the US triumph in gunning down Osama bin Laden. Asif Ali Zardari’s […] […]

ONE of the world’s most wanted Nazi war criminals, Sandor Kepiro, 97, goes on trial in Hungary on Thursday charged with the murder of 36 people in Novi Sad, Serbia, in 1942. With the trial […] […]

ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN— Pakistan’s leader denied suggestions that his country’s security forces sheltered Osama bin Laden as Britain demanded Tuesday that Islamabad answer for how the Al Qaeda chief lived undetected for six years in a […] […]

LONDON—Five men were arrested under anti-terrorism laws near a nuclear waste-processing plant in northwest England, police said Tuesday. Cumbria Constabulary said the men were detained under the Terrorism Act near the Sellafield plant on Monday […] […]

WASHINGTON—A U.S. official says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was far from alone when U.S. forces launched their assault on his compound in Pakistan. The official tells The Associated Press that 23 children and nine […] […]