Mali Rebels Split in Two, Then Ask For Peace Talks
A splinter group of Islamic militants have broken away from the main force of rebels in Mali and now says it wants peace talks with the government.
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A splinter group of Islamic militants have broken away from the main force of rebels in Mali and now says it wants peace talks with the government.
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A dangerous standoff is taking place at a gas facility in the Sahara Desert, where Islamic militants are holding dozens of oil company employees hostage, and Algerian soldiers have attempted to free them.
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The President just announced his highly-anticipated proposals for new gun control legislation, including 23 executive orders designed to tackle the issue.
A group of al-Qaeda militants snuck over the border from Mali into Algeria on Wednesday morning and claims to have taken 41 hostages from a gas production facility, including seven Americans. The situation appears to have become larger and more serious than previously imagined.
Someone had to pay the price for that debacle. And that someone was J.P. Morgan's CEO, who saw his annual bonus slashed to a measly $10 million, a 53.5-percent pay cut from the year before.
The Islamic militant group holding a French intelligence agent for last three years says he survived the botched rescue attempt made by his countrymen, but that they have decided to kill him anyway in retaliation.
Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed into a construction crane and fell to the street in Central London this morning.
With the nation's largest seller of guns refusing to speak out on its pivotal and complex role in the retail reality of firearms, gun-control advocates are holding a rally Tuesday outside a Walmart just eight miles from Newtown.
Oprah Winfrey confirmed this morning that Armstrong has finally fessed up to what everyone already knew, but after a lifetime of angry, vindictive denials of performance enhancing drug use, he's only opened the door to more legal troubles.
The New York State Assembly passed a major new gun law today that makes them the first legislative body to react to the Newtown massacre.
Things are growing tense in the Pakistani capital on Tuesday as the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the nation's prime minister, even as thousands of demonstrators descended on Parliament looking to bring down the government.
The United Nations wants to remind everyone that while the world was busy worrying about North Korea's terrible nuclear missiles they were ignoring North Korea's even more terrible human rights abuses.
In the final press conference of his first term, President Obama focused almost entirely on the debt ceiling fight and gun control, accusing Congress of collecting "ransom" while saying that gun proposals including an assault weapons ban "make sense."
France continued its attack on Islamist rebels in northern Mali today as the nation suddenly finds itself taking the lead in the war against al Qaeda terrorists in Africa.
Now that the magic coin is no longer on the table, Politico is kicking off the next stage of the debt ceiling fight with a report that House Republicans are "seriously entertaining dramatic steps," including letting the government default or shutting it down altogether.
Chinese officials have shut down factories and ordered cars off the roads to try and save their capital city after spending three straight days under a cloud of toxic smog.
In an attempt to defend the troubled government from Islamic extremists threatening to bring it down, French military forces have entered the West African country.
In yet another sign that the opposition to Bashar al-Assad's military may be able to fend for themselves, rebel forces in Syria say they've taken full control of the Taftanaz air base.
As Vice President Biden prepares his recommendations on gun control, both the administration and the its toughest opponents seem convinced that a new assault weapons ban isn't in the cards.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a safety review of Boeing's flagship plane after two more incidents raised troubling concerns about their integrity.
A report on the sexual abuse allegations made against ex-BBC host Jimmy Savile found that the beloved TV star was accused of sexually abusing more than 450 people during his lifetime, yet was never formally charged with any crimes.
The Centers for Disease Control is set to release its weekly flu advisory report on Friday, which will show that the nationwide flu epidemic continues to grow, even though it may have begun to peak in the states where it first began.
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Three deadly incidents in last five days have raised fears of a new major conflict between India and Pakistan as the their armies continue to challenge each other in the disputed region of Kashmir.
A post-mortem analysis of Junior Seau's brain tissue has diagnosed the former NFL linebacker with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain diseased linked to football and head injuries.
A dozen killer whales are stuck under a large sheet of sea ice off the coast of Canada, and officials and scientists are scrambling to find a way to lead them to open water. (Update: They're free!)
A car bomb exploded in the Israel city of Tel Aviv on Thursday, but despite the obvious assumption, police say the explosion was not an act of terrorism.
Three members of a Turkish separatist group were found dead in Paris this morning in what police say was a politically motivated execution.
Former presidential candidate and former Senator Rick Santorum is launching an all-out drive to deny his former colleague Chuck Hagel a new job as Secretary of Defense, despite not having any actual power to do so.
Hundreds of brushfires across the entire Australian continent and Tasmania are now so widespread they're bing monitored from space, and pictures from the ground are equally terrifying.
A crowded commuter boat slammed into a dock in lower Manhattan on Wednesday morning, possibly injuring as many as 57 people.
After previously suggesting that some American forces could remain in Afghanistan for decades to come, the Pentagon says it's considering the possibility that no U.S. forces could be stationed there after 2014.
A prisoner swap between the Syrian government and rebels forces reveals what Bashar al-Assad's thinks the life of one of his own citizens is worth: About 2 percent of an Iranian's.
Emerging details and unexpected endorsements have ratcheted up both sides of the debate for what looks to be a major fight over the future of gun legislation. The questions now: What might the new laws look like? And how soon can anything really happen, if at all?
Giffords and her husband have announced a new lobbying effort to fight for more gun control — and this time gun-rights advocates might listen.
The only suspect to be arrested over the Benghazi embassy attack was released from jail on Tuesday after authorities declared that they did not have enough evidence to hold him further.
As President Obama nominates John Brennan to lead the CIA, the future of the controversial program they've worked so closely on swings into uncertainty: What happens now, and what details might we learn about America's secret war?
Few people were better at digging up secret information than the late 60 Minutes veteran Mike Wallace, and now CBS News has honored that memory by posting his FBI surveillance file online.
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