The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki was believed to have been a major blow to the propaganda efforts of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen. But when it comes to his death’s impact on the ability of the group to carry out attacks, the picture remains as cloudy as it was when Awlaki was killed nearly four months ago . Read full article > >

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FOR MOST OF the past four months, the people of Wukan, a town of about 20,000 in Southern China, were in open revolt against the local Communist Party authorities. The uprising began as a protest against officials’ decision to sell a village-owned pig farm to developers of luxury housing for $156 million, precious little of which wound up in the hands of townspeople. The protests intensified after a leader’s death , which Wukan residents blamed on a severe beating from police. With local Communist officials ousted by the people, China’s higher-ranking authorities were forced to negotiate. Read full article > >

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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s announcement that he is suspending, rather than terminating, his campaign appears to give him greater flexibility in the months ahead to transfer leftover funds to a candidate or political committee of his choice. That financial flexibility — as well as the potential to benefit by picking up Cain’s supporters — was not lost on the other GOP presidential hopefuls, who Sunday morning continued to heap praise on the embattled former Godfather’s Pizza executive. Read full article > >

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Say you need a suit. Back up. First, say you are a woman. Then, say you need a suit. You are 32, or 38. You are out of grad school or out of the Peace Corps or returning from the maternity leave that was going to last four months and somehow lasted five years. Say you work in Washington. Where do you go? Read full article > >

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Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, is freed four months after he was jailed following student fees protests in central London.

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Former Army sergeant Arnold Bradley has been living in an unheated GMC van since he was laid off from an automotive parts company four months ago. Every night, he finds a street that seems safe and settles down in his van, which is filled with his clothes and household items. On Saturday, the 49-year-old veteran broke down and cried as he stood in the Prince George’s County Sports and Learning Complex surrounded by people who were there to help him and other homeless people. He held a gray sweatshirt that said “Army.” Read full article > >

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Four months after Supreme Court dismissed bias case.

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BRUSSELS — Pleased by the outcome of the war in Libya, the Obama administration is suddenly all smiles among its NATO allies. Four months after then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates delivered a blistering speech accusing NATO of abdicating its defense responsibilities to the United States, his successor, Leon E. Panetta, was conciliatory Wednesday in a visit to the military alliance’s headquarters in Belgium. Read full article > >

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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — For Newt Gingrich, persistence has its rewards. Four months after his early missteps nearly doomed his presidential aspirations, he has defied expectations, crept up in the polls and become a draw on the campaign trail. His tenacity has also been a boon in other ways. It has bolstered his personal brand as the Republican Party’s venerated idea man, who on Thursday released a revamped version of his 1994 “ Contract With America .” It has provided a platform to promote his vast catalogue of books and documentaries . It has even helped his wife, Callista, whose new children’s book recently shot to No. 3 on Amazon’s list of bestsellers. Read full article > >

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Drones can clearly track down terrorists. But they can apparently boost an economy, too. The U.S. military’s deployment of MQ-9 Reaper drones to the Seychelles , a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean, generated $3.1 million in revenue for local businesses during their first four months of operations, according to an unclassified U.S. diplomatic cable buried in the database of State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks. Read full article > >

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Diana Son’s “Stop Kiss” plays like an absorbing public-service announcement. The tale of the furtive lesbian romance that unfolds in the months before and after the commission of a brutal hate crime, the piece sensitively chronicles the sexual awakening of two appealing young women as they tiptoe around mutual desire. Read full article > >

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At least nine people were killed Wednesday after a bomb inside a briefcase exploded outside the Delhi High Court, India’s home minister told lawmakers. It was the second explosion outside the court complex in four months.

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Facebook announced Friday that it will end its Deals program, the network’s answer to Groupon and other daily deals sites. The program is being dropped after four months of testing in select markets in Texas, California and Georgia. The network will discontinue the program in the “coming weeks.” “We think there is a lot of power in a social approach to driving people into local businesses,” Facebook said in a statement to the Associated Press. “We’ve learned a lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.” Read full article > >

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Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman , has been killed in Pakistan , U.S. officials said Saturday — a significant strike against the terrorist group nearly four months after the death of Osama bin Laden . Rahman was killed Aug. 22 in Waziristan, the tribal northwest region of Pakistan, according to a senior administration official who was not authorized to speak by name. The official called his death “a tremendous loss for al-Qaeda” because the group’s new top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, “was relying heavily on him to help guide and run the organization, especially since bin Laden’s death.” Read full article > >

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Rebel fighters say they are in control of most of Libya’s capital, though the months-long war appeared far from over Saturday.

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