WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. counterterrorist officials warn that al-Qaida’s leaders still dream of payback for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden a year ago. The officials say U.S. strikes against have all but dismantled bin Laden’s old team and left the terror network too busy surviving to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack. But
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The process to extradite Joran van der Sloot from Peru to the United States to face criminal charges has begun, according to Maximo Altez, van der Sloot’s Peruvian attorney. Peruvian judges in January sentenced the Dutchman to 28 years in prison for the murder in 2010 of Stephany Flores. He is also the prime suspect
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Congressional committees are widening their investigations into an alleged U.S. Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Colombia ahead of a recent trip there by President Barack Obama. The Senate Homeland Security Committee wants to determine whether what transpired “was an exception” or “a pattern of misconduct that has gone on elsewhere by Secret Service agents,”
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President Barack Obama, speaking for the first time about allegations that Secret Service agents hired prostitutes, said Sunday that “of course I’ll be angry” if those accusations are proven true by an investigation. Obama said the agents represent the United States and are supposed to conduct themselves with the highest levels of dignity anywhere in
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Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s finance minister and coordinating minister for the country’s economy, was interviewed on Monday as a candidate for president of the World Bank Group. The person chosen would succeed Robert Zoellick, who became president on July 1, 2007. The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries
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The U.S. paid $50,000 in compensation for each villager killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by a rogue American soldier in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Sunday. The families were told that the money came from President Barack Obama. The unusually large payouts were the latest move
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The wife of a U.S. soldier accused of murdering 17 Afghan civilians believes her husband could not have carried out the crime. “I don’t think anything will really change my mind in believing that he did not do this,’’ Kari Bales told TODAY’s
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