A series of explosions rocked a Bangkok residential neighborhood on Tuesday, including one caused by a man believed to be an Iranian national who threw a hand grenade at police.

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The MoD names two servicemen who died following an explosion in Afghanistan last week, including one who died of his injuries in a UK hospital.

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MoD names Afghan blast servicemen

On the 10th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, there were no special newspaper sections remembering its great battles or dwelling on its meaning. The leading media of the time remarked on the milestone but acknowledged it with restraint. The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune published just 12 stories each about the war during the entire month of its decennial, including one story in the Tribune announcing an Army reunion. Read full article > >

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Sept. 11, 2011: An anniversary dissected in the media unlike any other

Three of the nation’s largest Internet service providers are cooperating with a new National Security Agency program to sift through the traffic of major defense contractors with the goal of blocking cyberattacks by foreign adversaries, senior defense and industry officials say. The novel program, which began last month on a voluntary, trial basis, relies on sophisticated NSA data sets to identify malicious programs slipped into the vast stream of Internet data flowing to the nation’s largest defense firms. Such attacks, including one last month against Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin, are nearly constant as rival nations and terrorist groups seek access to U.S. military secrets. Read full article > >

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Major Internet service providers cooperating with NSA on monitoring traffic

In the U.S., they’d get a medal. Pakistan’s top spy agency has arrested five informants who fed information to the American CIA and helped bring down Osama bin Laden. The five detainees, including one man who wrote down license plate numbers of cars…

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Pakistan Arrests Five CIA Informants

Three shooting incidents — including one in which a county sheriff’s deputy shot dead his ex-wife and another that left a state police trooper wounded — broke out within less than an hour in western Virginia, police said.

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Police: Deputy kills ex, shoots trooper

Barcelona won the Champions League final by three goals to one at Wembley, including one from their star striker Lionel Messi, who was named man of the match.

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VIDEO: Man Utd fans: ‘Better team won’

At least four Naval personnel, including one officer and one sailor, were killed in the attack by at least 10 to 15 unidentified gunmen.

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Militants Attack Pakistani Naval Base in Karachi

Rarely is a windowless basement bunker lavished with so much praise. But the White House Situation Room is enjoying a boomlet these days, after hosting one of the most intense briefing sessions in U.S. history — including one of the most scrutinized photographs of the Obama presidency — during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound two weeks ago. Now, President Obama plans to pay homage to the site, which is actually several rooms. He’ll hold a 50th-anniversary ceremony dedicating one of its conference rooms to its creator, President John F. Kennedy, on Friday. National security adviser Thomas E. Donilon will make remarks and introduce Obama, who will unveil a plaque and host an unusual Situation Room reception including guests Caroline Kennedy; her son, Jack Schlossberg; and nine former national security advisers, an administration official said. Read full article > >

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White House Situation Room lavished with attention following bin Laden raid

Jim Lehrer, who has anchored PBS’s “NewsHour” program for 36 years, said Thursday morning that he is stepping down from the daily broadcast, ending the longest run of a national anchorman. Lehrer, 76, said he would leave as anchor on June 6 but would continue to appear on Fridays to moderate the show’s weekly news analysis segment featuring a panel of journalists. He will also continue to be involved with the program’s producer, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, based in Arlington. In addition to his familiar role on PBS, the widely respected Lehrer may be best known to American audiences as the moderator of presidential debates. He has handled that job 11 times, including one of the debates between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008. Read full article > >

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Jim Lehrer to step down from daily broadcast at ‘NewsHour’

Defence Secretary Liam Fox has apologised to 38 soldiers who heard that they were being made redundant by e-mail, including one who is currently serving on the front line in Afghanistan.

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A Department of Education document reveals several plans, including one for two new charter schools in the place of the closing John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx.

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Internal Document Offers Peek at Plan to Replace New York City Schools

The Metropolitan Police have released new footage of people they want to trace in connection with violent student protests – including one carrying a petrol bomb.

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Police use YouTube to trace rioters

The FBI will be working with local Long Island authorities in the case of a suspected serial killer, authorities said Wednesday. Four bodies were found on a beach about 40 miles outside New York City this week, including one believed to be a woman who…

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FBI Joins Hunt for NY Serial Killer

Israeli army demolishes a number of buildings in the occupied West Bank, including one that Palestinians say was a mosque.

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Israel razes West Bank ‘mosque’