Adis Medunjanin is found guilty over a New York subway suicide-bomb plot planned to target the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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New York ‘subway bomber’ guilty

Prosecutors said a Queens man was stopped just days before he and two of his former high school classmates planned to stage suicide attacks.

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Terror Defendant Convicted in Plot to Bomb New York Subways

Syrian state TV says a suicide bomber has struck in the capital Damascus, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20 others.

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Deadly blast hits Syrian capital

A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding nearly 30, state TV said. Thousands of Syrians protested elsewhere to denounce persistent violence by President Bashar Assad’s regime.

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Syria Says Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Damascus

Massoud Hossaini, 30, was awarded a Pulitzer, the most prestigious US journalism prize, in breaking news photography for his “heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber’s attach at a crowded shrine in Kabul,” the Pulitzer committee said.

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Meet Pulitzer Prize-Winning Massoud Hossaini

A British would-be suicide bomber jailed for plotting to blow up an aircraft has his sentence cut after assisting prosecutors in the US.

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Two separate suicide bombings.

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At Least 15 Killed in Afghan Blasts

KABUL — At least 15 persons, including police and civilians, were killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan on Tuesday in the latest spate of such violence that coincide with the start of the traditional fighting season in Afghanistan. Read full article > >

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Two bomb attacks in Afghanistan leave at least 15 dead

Suicide strike rattles city on Easter Sunday.

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Car Bomb Kills 38 in Nigeria

Ted Heller’s brazen, often hilarious and always disturbing new novel, “ Pocket Kings ,” is a hybrid love letter and suicide note to 21st-century publishing. Forget coffee spoons, his anti-hero Frank Dixon measures his life in Amazon rankings. And as “Pocket Kings” begins, according to the most angst-inducing algorithm in the world of letters, Dixon is America’s 711,653rd most-popular novelist — and falling. Dixon’s first two novels, neither of which he is able to think about “without being overwhelmed with pride, despair, bewilderment, and rage,” were published to modest acclaim and then promptly dispatched to the remainder warehouse. Now he can’t find a publisher for his third novel, the first pages of which early readers, including his wife and literary agent, have found so offensive that they can’t continue. Read full article > >

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Book World: In ‘Pocket Kings,’ by Ted Heller, a love-hate relationship with publishing

The Afghan Defense Ministry went into a lockdown on Tuesday after the discovery of 10 suicide vests.

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Afghan Soldiers Arrested in Suspected Attack Against Government

Suspected murder-suicide.

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Five Dead in San Francisco

In the crime-scene photographs, the grill of the SUV is awash in blood and the suicide bomber’s leg lies severed on the road. These are not the kind of images you’d expect to see in a politician’s scrapbook. Read full article > >

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In Pakistan, surviving suicide bombings is part of a political family’s life

A Taliban suicide bomber kills at least nine people at Afghanistan’s Jalalabad airport, in revenge for the burning of Muslim holy books at a US base.

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Deadly bombing at Afghan airport

The crucial questions in the trial of Dharun Ravi are whether Mr. Ravi was motivated by a dislike of gays to bully Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide, and whether Mr. Clementi perceived the situation that way.

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In Tyler Clementi Trial, Looking at Dharun Ravi’s Intentions