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FOUND The remains of U.S. Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher, the first combat casualty of Operation Desert Storm, were discovered in Iraq 18 years after his plane was shot down the first night of the Gulf...
...Sydney Alleged Terrorist Plot Derailed Australian authorities said they had thwarted a potentially dramatic terrorist attack by Muslim extremists on one of the country's largest military bases. After police raided 19 houses on Aug. 4, five men were charged with planning to storm the base, near Sydney, and open fire on soldiers with automatic weapons. The suspects--Australian citizens of Somali and Lebanese descent--are believed to be connected to al-Shabaab, an Islamic group fighting Somalia's enfeebled government; officials said at least one had participated in the insurgency. Analysts say the plot highlights the prospect of future...
...government confirmed that nearly 400 were buried alive, bringing the death toll of Typhoon Morakot, which hit Taiwan last week, to over 500. It was the deadliest natural disaster Taiwan has seen since a 7.3 earthquake hit the island in 1999, killing 2,416, mostly in central Taiwan. The storm dumped more than six feet of rain in over two days, leading to floods that wiped out many mountainside villages and towns, a six-story hotel, 34 bridges, 253 roads and countless homes. As of Saturday morning, an estimated 35,000 people are still stranded in the region. (See pictures...
...time she brought on the President, the storm had eased, and he was warmly welcomed by most of the roughly 1,000 people in the crowd. Several people in attendance sat there grim-faced, arms folded, while others cheered Obama's lines. Most of the overt hostility remained outside and down the road, where the state highway joins with the airport road. There, anti-Obama demonstrators (made up mostly of two groups - Patients Rights and Tea Party Patriots) were gathered with signs, right next to a pro-reform group, Montanans for Single Payer (many of whom are unhappy with...
...beast of Europe's far right. It was France's third-largest political party for much of this decade, and its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was runner-up in the 2002 French presidential elections. So in June the party might have expected to harness the perfect storm of rising unemployment, economic insecurity and the racial tensions that have disfigured French society to sail to a historic victory in the European elections. Instead, the FN's share of the vote tumbled, reducing its tally of seats from seven in 2004 to three. "Times of unhappiness tend to favor extremist parties...