A major exercise testing security and emergency services in the event of a terror attack during the Olympic and Paralympic Games is to take place later.

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WFewer women than men suffering from a heart attack appear to experience chest pain symptoms, according to a study in the US.

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Heart symptoms ‘differ in women’

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet with her Pakistani counterpart in London this week in a sign that months of tension between their two governments may be easing. The meeting, which U.S. officials said would take place on the sidelines of an international conference on Somalia on Thursday, is the first between Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar since 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a U.S. airstrike near the Afghanistan border in November. Read full article > >

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet with her Pakistani counterpart in London this week in a sign that months of tension between their two governments may be easing. The meeting, which U.S. officials said would take place on the sidelines of an international conference on Somalia on Thursday, is the first between Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar since 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a U.S. airstrike near the Afghanistan border in November. Read full article > >

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Smuggled materials to attack Israeli targets.

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Iran Plot in Azerbaijan Revealed

If you thought you were living through a particularly nasty presidential primary, turns out you were right. Four years, ago, just 6 percent of campaign advertising in the GOP primary amounted to attacks on other Republicans, a figure that has shot up to over 50 percent in this election, according to Kantar Media/CMAG, an ad-tracking firm. Read full article > >

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Study: Negative campaign ads much more frequent, vicious than in primaries past

An attack would take at least 100 planes, American defense officials and military analysts said, and take far more time than earlier strikes on nuclear sites in Syria and Iraq.

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Iran Raid Seen as Complex Task for Israeli Military

South Korea holds live fire military drills from islands near disputed sea borders despite threats of attack by the North.

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S Korean drills despite threats

IT’S BEEN MORE than six months since President Obama called for the end of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Yet as Mr. Assad’s forces escalated their assaults on Syrian cities last week, inflicting scores of deaths every day, his rule appeared far from finished. On the contrary, there seems every chance that the dictator could go on slaughtering Syrians for months or even years — and maybe prevail. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: The West must take stronger action to help the Syrian opposition

The FBI and the U.S. Capitol Police arrested a Moroccan man Friday in downtown Washington after a lengthy investigation into an alleged plot to carry out a suicide attack on the Capitol. Amine el-Khalifi, 29, was picked up while carrying an inoperable gun and a fake suicide vest provided to him by undercover FBI agents posing as al-Qaeda associates, U.S. officials said. They said he entered the United States when he was 16. Read full article > >

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Federal agents arrest man who allegedly planned suicide bombing on U.S. Capitol

Allegedly planning an attack on the Capitol.

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Feds Arrest Man in Suicide-Bomb Plot

Allegedly planning an attack on the Capitol.

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As in Britain, criticism is being levied at bankers in the US. But it is mild compared with some previous attacks, writes historian David Cannadine.

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A Point of View: Wall St back in the firing line

As in Britain, criticism is being levied at bankers in the US. But it is mild compared with some previous attacks, writes historian David Cannadine.

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Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning journalist, was reporting inside Syria when he suffered a fatal asthma attack.

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Anthony Shadid, a New York Times Reporter, Dies in Syria