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GILBERT, Ariz.,  (Reuters) – A gunman, identified by local media as a prominent border militia leader and a reputed neo-Nazi, shot dead four people including a toddler girl in Arizona today before apparently committing suicide, police said.

KABUL, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death with a speedy trip to Afghanistan, signing a strategic pact with Kabul yesterday and delivering an election-year message to Americans that the war is winding down.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch is not fit to run a major international company, British lawmakers said yesterday, finding him ultimately responsible for the illegal phone hacking that has corroded his global media empire and damaged the political establishment.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live public appearance in two weeks yesterday to announce a new workers’ law prior to his return to Cuba for more cancer radiation therapy.

BEIRUT – Explosions blew the fronts off buildings in the Syrian town of Idlib, with state TV reporting nine people killed and 100 wounded including security services personnel targeted by an intensifying rebel bombing campaign.

(Barbados Nation) The Board of LIAT has announced the resignation of acting Chief Executive Officer Brian Challenger from June 30.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – A Norwegian general charged with overseeing a shaky U.N.-brokered

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is under U.S.

OBO, Central African Republic,  (Reuters) – In a bare concrete room in a far-flung corner of Central African Republic, U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – No one talks tougher against prostitution than the U.S.

QUETTA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – The beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found by the roadside yesterday in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta, police and Red Cross officials said.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said yesterday it had recalled its ambassador in Cairo for security reasons after protests in Egypt against the kingdom’s arrest of an Egyptian lawyer, marking a diplomatic rupture between the long-time allies.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is under US protection in Beijing after an audacious escape from 19 months under house arrest, a US-based group said yesterday, in a drama that threatens to ignite new tensions between the two governments.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Gunmen in inflatable dinghies killed several security officials in an attack on a military unit on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, state media said yesterday, the first seaborne assault reported during the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM (Reuters) – Tom Roubideaux had not been to the annual meeting of Native American and indigenous people, known as the Gathering of Nations, for a decade because he was battling cancer and too sick to dance.

LONDON  (Reuters) – Britain’s wealthiest people saw their fortunes rise to record levels last year, according to the annual Sunday Times Rich List, at a time when most Britons’ earnings and savings were squeezed by inflation and low interest rates.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s core organization is likely incapable of carrying out another mass-casualty attack on the scale of Sept.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, one of China’s most prominent human rights advocates, has escaped from home imprisonment, activists said yesterday, and there were unconfirmed reports he had taken refuge in the U.S.

(Reuters) – A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is little evidence the harsh “enhanced interrogation techniques” the CIA used on high-value prisoners produced counter-terrorism breakthroughs.

LOS TEQUES, Venezuela, (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez’s big poll lead puts him in a strong position ahead of Venezuela’s presidential election, but it could also convince radical opponents violence is the only way to beat him, a senior campaign strategist said.