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Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.

Tags: evacuation, FEMA, natural disasters, nuke, nuclear weapons

A Miami-Dade fire captain who blasted the handling of the Trayvon Martin case in a Facebook rant has been demoted.

Tags: Miami Fire Rescue, police, Facebook, Miami, MDPD, Trayvon Martin

MONTERREY, MEXICO— Authorities struggled Monday to identify the 49 people found mutilated and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the U.S .border where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.

Tags: US Army, Veracruz, Mexico Cartel Drugs, mexico

It is from Yemen, not tribal Pakistan, that the group is most likely to strike America next.

Tags: Osama bin Laden, Yemen, AQAP, al-Qaeda

The bombings that tore through Damascus on Thursday morning were the sixth terrorist attack to have struck the city since December.

Tags: U.N., bombs, bombing, Syria, Iraq, al-Qaeda, Turkey, Qatar, saudi arabia

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has used an unrivalled network of tribal and family connections to infiltrate Islamist militant strongholds in Yemen, enabling it to help thwart a bomb plot against the United States, say Gulf officials and former diplomats.

Tags: counter-terrorism, Yemen, bomb plot, bomb, al-Qaeda

Washington (CNN) -- U.S. and other intelligence agencies recently broke up a plot to bomb an airliner and have seized an explosive device that is similar to ones previously used by al Qaeda, officials said Monday.

Tags: drone, TSA, airport security, Osama bin Laden, President Obama, detroit, DHS, terror attacks

(Reuters) - Two Yemeni members of al Qaeda were killed by a missile strike on their car on Sunday, in what residents and the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia group described as a U.S. drone attack.

Tags: attacks, drone, Washington, Yemen, al-Qaeda, Qasaa

A teenage suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his chest in Khar, the main town in Pakistan's Bajaur district, killing 20 people. It was the deadliest bombing in Pakistan since early March.

Tags: NATO, AFP, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, al-Qaeda, suicide bomber, taliban

Leader felt affiliate groups were tarnishing reputation of Islamist group, according to documents seized during fatal raid

Tags: Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, taliban

CAIRO -- At least 11 people were killed Wednesday when unknown attackers armed with guns and firebombs clashed with protesters near the Defense Ministry in an escalation of violence symbolizing the country's political divisions ahead of this month's presidential elections.

Tags: Army, Defense, Mubarak, Cairo, Egypt

Five men arrested, public never in danger.

(Cleveland) - The FBI has uncovered a plot to blow up a bridge near Cleveland!

Tags: bridges, C-4 explosives, Joint Terrorism Task Force, anarchists, FBI, terrorist, bomb, Cleveland

Today's suicide bombings in Syria's Idlib province come just three days after a suicide bombing in Damascus claimed by a salafi jihadist organization.

Tags: suicide bomber, terrorist, militants, Jihadist, al-Qaeda, Syria

BEIRUT — A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday, killing at least nine people and wounding nearly 30, state TV said.

Tags: terrorist, Kofi Annan, Hama, Syria, U.N., suicide bomber

Up to 70 people have been killed in an attack on a house in Hama, according to Syrian activists.

Tags: bomb, Syria, Hamas

The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that it is carving out a brand new spy agency expected to include several hundred officers focused on intelligence gathering around the world.

Tags: Leon Panetta, intelligence, Department of Defense, Pentagon, CIA

(RUBKONA, South Sudan) — Sudan continued with its aerial bombardment of South Sudan on Tuesday, dropping eight bombs overnight, an official said, as South Sudan's president said the attacks amounted to a declaration of war by Sudan.

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Police say they have arrested an Italian man in a crackdown on an Islamic extremist network suspected of supporting international terrorism.

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U.S. officials said Friday the four people aboard an American Black Hawk helicopter that crashed in southwestern Afghanistan were likely Americans.

Tags: helicopter, taliban, US Army, Hami Karzai, NATO, Afghanistan

Top Nato and US officials condemn photographs released to the LA Times by soldier as tense relations with Afghanistan worsen

Tags: American troops, US Army, NATO, Afghanistan