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U.S. officials counter criticism in Benghazi attack

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:38 PM PDT

Reports from Fox News and other outlets suggest gross negligence by President Obama, the CIA and the Pentagon. U.S. officials issue a detailed response.

WASHINGTON — Maryland insurance executive Christopher Moody believes much of the news media is missing a major scandal in how the Obama administration responded to the attack in eastern Libya that killed four Americans.

At Tehran rally, little interest in U.S. election

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 08:42 PM PDT

As Iranians mark the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, few are much concerned about who wins the U.S. presidential race.

TEHRAN — Iran may be a major foreign policy issue in U.S. presidential politics, but few attendees at an Iranian government-organized rally Friday denouncing the United States seemed concerned about the outcome of the upcoming American election.

South Africa activist set to testify against police is arrested

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:41 PM PDT

Angy Peter of Khayelitsha township was to be a key witness before a commission looking into police abuse. Colleagues call her arrest suspicious.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Activist Angy Peter, who has spent years exposing police failures in the sprawling township of Khayelitsha outside Cape Town, was due to testify at an upcoming commission of inquiry.

U.S. says CIA responded within 25 minutes to Benghazi attack

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Intelligence officials dispute a report by Fox News that officers in Libya were ordered to 'stand down' after the diplomatic compound came under attack.

WASHINGTON — CIA security officers in a Benghazi post responded within 25 minutes to a call for help from a nearby State Department compound after it came under attack Sept. 11, officials said Thursday, seeking to refute a Fox News report asserting that CIA managers ordered them to stay put.