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• 23 killed in bus crash in northeastern India
Oct. 10: A car bombing blasts an anti-terrorism police squad building in Islamabad. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. GAUHATI, India - An overcrowded, speeding bus crashed into a stationary truck in northeastern India on Tuesday, killing 23 people and ...
• U.K. House of Lords rejects detention plan
Britain's Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, reads a statement to the House of Commons, Monday. Plans to increase pre-charge terror detention to 42 days will be dropped from the Counter Terrorism Bill, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said. LONDON - Britain's ...
• Libya begins payments for terrorism victims
WASHINGTON - Libya has started making payments into a $1.8 billion fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, another step in the full normalization of long-strained ties between Washington and ...
• Pakistan's spy chief briefs officials on terrorism
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's new spy chief showed lawmakers video and photos of militants killing people at a rare closed briefing Wednesday on the government's fight against Taliban and al-Qaida extremists, attendees said. The fledgling civilian ...
• Obama up by 10 points among likely voters
Obama is winning "economy voters" by 62 percent to 33 percent, nearly a 2-to-1 ratio. The next most important issue, health care, was offered by 7 percent of voters. A combined 11 percent of respondents chose terrorism or Iraq -- national security ...