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BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Investigators believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, likely made the bombs they are suspected of setting off at last month’s Boston Marathon in Tamerlan’s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, law enforcement officials said on Friday.

NEW YORK  (Reuters) – Harvard historian Niall Ferguson posted an “unqualified apology” on his personal blog yesterday after saying that British economist John Maynard Keynes did not care about the future because he was gay and had no children.

DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh urged the European Union yesterday not to take tough measures against its economically crucial textile industry in response to the collapse of a garment factory that killed 550 people.

LIMA (Reuters) – A key Peruvian official tasked with implementing a law to give indigenous groups more rights has resigned to protest efforts by President Ollanta Humala’s cabinet to roll back the law to protect mining investments.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Powerful explosions struck the outskirts of Damascus early on Sunday, sending columns of fire into the night sky, and Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military facility just north of the capital.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Saturday, a U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Israel has carried out an air strike targeting a shipment of missiles in Syria bound for Hezbollah guerrillas in neighbouring Lebanon, an Israeli official said on Saturday.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said yesterday he does not foresee a scenario in which he would send US ground troops to Syria and outlined a deliberate approach to determining whether the Syrian government had used chemical weapons in a 2-year civil war.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It’s been dubbed the most expensive prison on Earth and President Barack Obama cited the cost this week as one of many reasons to shut down the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, which burns through some $900,000 per prisoner annually.

(Reuters) – The United States is watching “crackdowns on the opposition” in Venezuela, President Barack Obama said in a television interview aired yesterday when asked if he considered newly elected Nicolas Maduro to be the country’s legitimate president.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Thursday that former Clico executive chairman Lawrenc e Duprey is now considered a wanted man and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has assembled a specialist team of criminal investigators, including an international auditing firm and experienced lawyers, to start a probe of the businessman.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general is opening the financial records of two-time former president and likely 2016 presidential candidate Alan Garcia as part of a preliminary corruption inquiry, the government said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria CNN reported yesterday, citing two unnamed US officials.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security, criticized for failing to check the student status of a Kazakh man charged in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, has tightened procedures for admitting foreigners with student visas, a U.S.

CAMARILLO, Calif., (Reuters) – A fierce, wind-whipped brush fire spread on Friday along the California coast northwest of Los Angeles, threatening several thousand homes and a military base as more than 1,100 dwellings were ordered evacuated and a university campus was closed.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. employment rose more than expected in April and hiring was much stronger than previously thought in the prior two months, easing concerns belt-tightening in Washington was dealing a big blow to the economy.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – South Africa suspended four top security officials today, including two brigadier-generals, in a widening scandal over a plane chartered by a family with close ties to President Jacob Zuma using an air force base without proper permission.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Gunmen on a motorcycle today shot dead a prosecutor investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, one of the most shocking events in the country’s turbulent history.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear technology and long-range ballistic missiles will move it closer to its stated goal of being able to hit the United States with an atomic weapon, a new Pentagon report to Congress said yesterday.

CORONADO, California (Reuters) – The US Navy introduced its first squadron that combines combat helicopters with unmanned aerial vehicles at an air base near San Diego yesterday, calling the approach the future of warfare.