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U.S. gathering data on suspects in consulate attack in Libya

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 07:01 PM PDT

Intelligence agencies are assembling dossiers in what officials describe as a first step toward bringing the killers of four Americans in Libya to justice.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon, CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies are assembling dossiers on suspects in the assault on the U.S. Consulate in eastern Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, a first step toward fulfilling President Obama's vow to bring the killers to justice, U.S. officials said.

25 killed in attack at Nigerian college dormitory

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT

The attackers called out victims' names and then killed them, a police official says of the assault in Mubi, Nigeria.

KANO, Nigeria — Unknown assailants killed at least 25 people at a polytechnic school in northeastern Nigeria, invading the campus dormitory and shooting their victims or cutting their throats, authorities said Tuesday.

NATO's secretary-general discusses Afghanistan, Libya

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 04:19 PM PDT

Under Anders Fogh Rasmussen's watch, the coalition's most consuming campaign has been the Afghan war. He discusses the exit plan and the recent 'insider attacks.'

BRUSSELS — Since becoming head of the world's most durable military alliance three years ago, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has had his hands full with conflicts and operations outside the coalition's center of gravity in North America and Europe.

Ikea's Saudi Arabia catalog erases women; company expresses regret

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 11:14 PM PDT

The Ikea catalog distributed in Saudi Arabia is the same as in other countries except for what it's missing — women.