More than 100,000 American men who each year undergo “curative” therapy for low-risk prostate cancer should consider delaying treatment until the disease gets worse, and possibly put it off forever, a committee of experts convened by the federal government said Wednesday. The go-slow strategy is “a viable option” because there is no convincing evidence that surgery or radiation therapy increases survival, and there is good evidence that those procedures worsen quality of life, the panel concluded after a three-day meeting at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Read full article > >

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Many U.S. men with low-risk prostate cancer should delay or forgo treatment, panel says

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The latest U.S.-Pakistan crisis continued Tuesday to threaten the Obama administration’s strategy for gradually ending the war in Afghanistan, as the Islamabad government said it would boycott an upcoming international conference in Germany on Afghanistan’s future. The Pakistani cabinet, after a meeting in the eastern city of Lahore, said in a statement that it supports “stability and peace in Afghanistan and the importance of an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned process of reconciliation and expressed the hope that the international community will reaffirm its support for peace and development in Afghanistan at the forthcoming Bonn Conference.” Read full article > >

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TRIPOLI — Former Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi was buried in a secret location on Tuesday, officials of the interim government said, ending a four-day spectacle in which his bloody body was displayed to a public celebrating his gory death as a fitting end to decades of repression. Suliman Fortia, the representative of the city of Misurata on the national governing council, said in a telephone interview that Gaddafi’s body was put in an unmarked grave “somewhere in the desert” at dawn. Libyan officials have said they wanted to prevent his tomb from being desecrated or turned into a pilgrimage site. Read full article > >

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A son of the deposed Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has entered Niger, crossing the desert from Libya, the Nigerian government said Sunday.

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MISRATA, Libya — From the east and west, working with NATO air strikes, resurgent rebels battled Libyan government forces on Sunday at flashpoints along the Mediterranean coast, rebel commanders reported. The government said their victory claims were “wishful reporting.” Insurgents had reported fighting street by street to retake the Mediterranean port city of Zawiya, 18 miles (30 kilometers) west of Tripoli, a prize that would put them within striking distance of the capital and cut off one of Moammar Gadhafi’s last supply routes from Tunisia. Read full article > >

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Libya’s resurgent rebels claim victories; government denies their successes

The German government said it would phase out its nine remaining operating facilities over the next decade, in a move that will likely be popular with the German public.

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Lockheed Martin Corp, the world’s biggest aerospace company and the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier by sales, has been hit by an unspecified cyber incident, the U.S. government said Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security said that it and the Defense Department had offered to help gauge the scope of a “cyber incident impacting LMCO,” as the maker of fighter jets, ships and other major weapons systems is known. The federal government also has offered to help analyze “available data in order to provide recommendations to mitigate further risk,” Chris Ortman, a Homeland Security official, said in an e-mailed reply to a query from Reuters. Read full article > >

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TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan government said Thursday that it would pull its army out of cities if rebels did the same, while a spokesman called President Obama “delusional” for saying in a speech that Moammar Gaddafi’s 41-year rule over Libya would soon come to an end. The government’s offer, which the spokesman described as going further than it had before, was made on the condition that NATO stop its attacks on Libyan military targets, and it remained unclear Thursday evening how viable the proposal was. Read full article > >

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The Pakistani government said Tuesday that the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was an “unauthorized unilateral action” by the U.S. and warned that “such an event shall not serve as a future precedent for any state, including the United States.” The…

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The Libyan government said today that ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s son and his three grandchildren died in a NATO airstrike, and vowed to retaliate with death to “invaders” in the nation.

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The Libyan government said today that ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s son and his three grandchildren died in a NATO airstrike, and vowed to retaliate with death to “invaders” in the nation.

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The government said Sunday it is giving air traffic controllers an extra hour off between shifts so they don’t doze off at work, a problem that stretches back decades. But officials rejected the remedy that sleep experts say would make a real difference: on-the-job napping.

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The government said air traffic controllers would have more time to rest between shifts under new work rules announced Sunday. (April 17)

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The U.S. government said Thursday that its data collectors have not seen any significant progress on the cooling of the Japanese nuclear reactors. The data was collected by the Aerial Measurement System, considered one of the most sophisticated nuclear…

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In 1985, the Irish government boycotted the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City, the biggest celebration in the Irish American calendar. The cause of its umbrage was Peter T. King , that year’s grand marshal and someone the Irish government said was an “avowed” supporter of a terrorist…

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Peter King, IRA supporter and enthusiastic counter-terrorism advocate