The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related to airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
MULTAN, Pakistan - A bomb attack on a Pakistani security agency office in the southeastern city of Multan on Tuesday killed nine people, security officials said. Islamist militants have set off numerous bombs in Pakistan in recent months, most in t
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali government replaced its police and army chiefs Sunday ahead of a planned military offensive, the Somali information minister said. The reshuffle came as fresh clashes between insurgents and government forces in the ru
Final preparations were underway Sunday for a marathon UN conference on climate change, amid beefed-up security, activists' clamour and warnings that a hothouse planet loomed if the talks failed. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued an upbeat not
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Nazia is an 8-year-old in tattered secondhand clothes whose name means hope. For her, hope comes from the thriving business that employs her mother and 199 other women who sew embroidered clothing, tablecloths and shawls un
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has beefed up security around Cape Town for the World Cup draw to be held on Friday to prevent any incident and reassure fans about visiting one of the world's most crime-plagued nations. With an average of 50 people kil
ROME - The leaders of Russia and Italy announced Thursday support for the US strategy against extremists in Afghanistan during a summit which also saw key gas and aviation accords signed between the two nations. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev sa
COPENHAGEN - In Denmark's biggest security operation since World War II, police are mobilizing thousands of officers and — for the first time — a water cannon for next week's U.N. climate summit. Copenhagen police demonstrated the German
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