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Congo rebels threaten rare mountain gorillas
GOMA, Congo -- There are only about 800 mountain gorillas left in the world and most of them live in Virunga National Park, in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.But their home territory is occupied by heavily armed rebels fighting the Congolese government.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Nation & World
Ousted judges, ambassador get JFK award
BOSTON -- President John F. Kennedy's only surviving child is celebrating what would have been his 95th birthday this month by honoring three Iowa judges who were ousted after the court unanimously decided to legalize same-sex marriages.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Nation & World
Former child soldier to speak at EvCC
EVERETT -- A former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo is scheduled to share his story of capture and escape at 12:30 p.m. May 3 at Everett Community College's Baker Hall, Room 120.The event is free and open to the public.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Local News
Are Syrian elites getting ready to bail out?
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said it is seeing growing signs that the Syrian elite, including people close to President Bashar Assad, are increasingly worried and beginning to prepare exit plans.
Date: 02/11/2012 | Nation & World
With violence rising, Arab League pulls observers from Syria
CAIRO, Egypt -- The Arab League suspended its Syria observation mission Saturday, saying it was too dangerous to continue, as battles between security and opposition forces raged just outside the capital, Damascus.
Date: 01/28/2012 | Nation & World
Family covets sketch of hero
Holding such a precious portrait was a once-in-a-lifetime honor.
Date: 12/12/2011 | Local News
U.N. envoy says weapons have gone missing in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Some weapons depots in Libya have still not been secured properly, and "much has already gone missing" from unguarded sites, the top U.N. envoy in Libya said in an interview Sunday.
Date: 11/06/2011 | Nation & World
Revolution in Libya spared nation's Roman ruins
ROME -- Libya's famed ancient Roman sites, including the sprawling seaside ruins of Leptis Magna, were spared damage by NATO during the recent airstrikes, says a London-based Libyan archaeologist .
Date: 11/05/2011 | Nation & World
Gadhafi's hometown was destroyed in battle
SIRTE, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte paid a heavy price for sheltering him in the final battle of Libya's civil war.
Date: 10/28/2011 | Nation & World
Former Gadhafi interpreter remembers the Libyan tyrant
The Hartford CourantHARTFORD, Conn. -- As a young man in his 20s, Abubaker Saad was taken in by the dashing, 27-year-old Moammar Gadhafi, who seized power in Libya in a bloodless coup in 1969.
Date: 10/26/2011 | Nation & World
'Remarkable' Edmonds woman thought of life as a journey
As a child in Germany in the 1930s, Brigette Bjorn peeked at her parent's lavish New Years Eve parties before being tucked into bed.Her warm, secure family life imploded when she was barely a teen.
Date: 10/23/2011 | Local News
Libya's new leaders to declare liberation Sunday
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya's new leaders will declare liberation on Sunday, officials said, a move that will start the clock for elections after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
Gadhafi's $200 billion in riches astounds Libyans
WASHINGTON — Moammar Gadhafi secretly salted away more than $200 billion in bank accounts, real estate and corporate investments around the world before he was killed, about $30,000 for every Libyan citizen and double the amount that Western governments previously had suspected, according to...
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. Predator drone fired on Gadhafi convoy
WASHINGTON — With the end of the Libya mission in sight, U.S. military officials were looking ahead Friday to where they might shift aircraft and drones that had been involved in the operations.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Nation & World
Gadhafi put on display in shopping center freezer
MISRATA, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi's blood-streaked body was on display in a commercial freezer at a shopping center today as Libyan authorities argued about what to do with his remains and questions deepened over official accounts of the longtime dictator's death. New video emerged of his...
Date: 10/20/2011 | Nation & World
Death toll in Syrian protests tops 3,000, U.N. says
BEIRUT -- Thousands of Syrian protesters called on soldiers Friday to abandon President Bashar Assad's regime and join a dissident army numbering in the small thousands, as the top U.N. human rights official warned of a "full-blown civil war" in Syria, saying the death toll in the 7-month-old...
Date: 10/15/2011 | Nation & World
Video: Libyans claim gains in Gadhafi hometown offensive
SIRTE, Libya — Libyan revolutionary forces claimed to have captured parts of a sprawling convention center that loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi have used as their main base in the ousted leader's hometown and were shelling the city to try to rout snipers from rooftops in their offensive aimed at...
Date: 10/08/2011 | Nation & World
Syrian troops retake most of rebel town
BEIRUT -- Syrian troops retook most of a rebellious central town Saturday after five days of intense fighting with army defectors who sided with protesters in one of the worst clashes of the 6-month-old anti-government uprising, a rights group said.
Date: 10/02/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan royal offers his help to homeland
ROME — The great-nephew of the Libyan king ousted by Moammar Gadhafi said Wednesday his countrymen should be allowed to decide if they want the return of the monarchy, offering his family as a "servant of the Libyan people."
Date: 09/21/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan rebels advance on Gadhafi stronghold again
BANI WALID, Libya — Libyan revolutionary forces repelled an attack by Moammar Gadhafi loyalists on Sunday but faced fierce resistance from a valley separating them from the loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid, fighters said.
Date: 09/18/2011 | Nation & World
Benghazi, Libya, smiling; Westerners welcome
BENGHAZI, Libya -- Benghazi may possess the most soulless cityscape on the Mediterranean, full of boxy new buildings that lack any architectural motif or sense of place and new dwellings with all the charm of high rises in Communist East Germany. "They're like prisons," says Ali Tarhouni, the new...
Date: 09/18/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan fighters inch forward in Gadhafi hometown
SIRTE, Libya — Revolutionary fighters struggled to make gains in an assault into Gadhafi's hometown Saturday with street-by-street battles against loyalist forces fiercely defending the most symbolic of the shattered regime's remaining strongholds.
Date: 09/17/2011 | Nation & World
Camano author’s book helping veterans with memory loss reconnect
Dan Koffman, 61, an artist, designer and marketer who lives on Camano Island, was featured in a story by Gale Fiege Aug. 24, "Picture book can jog veterans' memories."
Date: 09/16/2011 | Local News
Libyan fighters hit Gadhafi town
WISHTATA, Libya -- Libyan fighters launched a two-pronged assault Friday on one of the last towns to resist the country's new rulers, clashing with Moammar Gadhafi's supporters inside Bani Walid as a weeklong standoff dissolved into street-to-street battles, the revolutionary forces said.
Date: 09/10/2011 | Nation & World
Libya rebels: Talks for loyalist town have failed
TARHOUNA, Libya — Negotiations over the surrender of one of Moammar Gadhafi's remaining strongholds have collapsed, and Libyan rebels were waiting for the green light to launch their final attack on the besieged town of Bani Walid, a spokesman said.
Date: 09/03/2011 | Nation & World
Documents show ties between Libyan spy chief, CIA
TRIPOLI, Libya — The CIA and other Western intelligence agencies worked closely with the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi, sharing tips and cooperating in handing over terror suspects for interrogation to a regime known to use torture, according to a trove of security documents discovered...
Date: 09/03/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan rebel commander plays down Islamist past
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Abdel-Hakim Belhaj is an emerging hero of the Libyan uprising, the man who led the Tripoli Brigade that swept into the capital and captured the fortified compound that was Moammar Gadhafi's seat of power. He's also the former leader of an Islamic militant group who says he was...
Date: 09/03/2011 | Nation & World
Gadhafi, in hiding, vows no surrender in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya — In a fiery broadcast from hiding, Moammar Gadhafi warned Thursday that loyalist tribes in his main strongholds were armed and preparing for battle, a show of defiance hours after rebels extended a deadline for the surrender of the fugitive leader's hometown.
Date: 09/01/2011 | Nation & World
Gadhafi son vows a fight to the death
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Two men claiming to be Moammar Gadhafi's sons made conflicting appeals from hiding Wednesday night, with one of them calling for talks with rebel leaders and the other urging the regime's loyalists to fight to the death.
Date: 09/01/2011 | Nation & World
CIA's Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare
MIAMI — A once-secret CIA history of the Bay of Pigs invasion lays out in unvarnished detail how the American spy agency came to the rescue of and cut deals with authoritarian governments in Central America, largely to hide the U.S. role in organizing and controlling the hapless Cuban exile...
Date: 08/31/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan leader's son vows no surrender to rebels
TRIPOLI, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam vowed Wednesday to fight to the death, insisting no regime loyalists would surrender to the rebels, who are closing in on Gadhafi's final strongholds.
Date: 08/31/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan rebels push to outskirts of capital Tripoli
TRIPOLI, Libya — Hundreds of euphoric Libyan rebels pushed to the western outskirts of Tripoli without meeting any resistance after they overran a major military base that defends the capital on Sunday. The trappings of Moammar Gadhafi's regime were crumbling fast, with opposition forces...
Date: 08/21/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan rebels say they are attacking Tripoli
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan rebels said they launched their first attack on Tripoli in coordination with NATO late Saturday, and Associated Press reporters heard unusually heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital. The fighting erupted just hours after opposition fighters captured the key city...
Date: 08/20/2011 | Nation & World
NATO hits Gadhafi compound in Tripoli
TRIPOLI, Libya -- At least seven loud blasts were heard in Tripoli early this morning as bombs fell in the vicinity of Moammar Gadhafi's main compound of Bab al-Aziziya.
Date: 08/19/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan rebels try to cut routes to Tripoli to 'choke' Gadhafi
ZAWIYA, Libya -- Libyan rebels claimed Sunday they were trying to cut off two key supply routes to Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in Tripoli after capturing more towns in the west of the country. The opposition fighters also battled government forces for control of the strategic city of Zawiya, just...
Date: 08/14/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan rebels push toward Tripoli
BIR SHAEB, Libya -- Libyan rebels fought their way into the strategic city of Zawiya west of Tripoli on Saturday in their most significant advance in months, battling snipers on rooftops and heavy shelling from Moammar Gadhafi's forces holding the city.
Date: 08/13/2011 | Nation & World
Rebels launch push in western Libya, aim for coast
BIR AYAD, Libya — Rebels launched a new offensive Saturday out of their stronghold in Libya's western mountains, battling regime forces in a drive toward the heartland of Moammar Gadhafi's rule on the Mediterranean coast. Opening a new front, the rebels are aiming to break a monthslong...
Date: 08/07/2011 | Nation & World
Libyan rebels plan push toward Tripoli
ZINTAN, Libya — Rebel fighters in western Libya are regrouping for a major offensive and hope to reach Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold, the capital of Tripoli, before the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in late August, a field commander said Thursday.
Date: 08/05/2011 | Nation & World
'Junk in the trunk' event delivered the goods
"Junk in the Trunk" was not all that.
Date: 07/22/2011 | Local News
Late explosions rock Tripoli; rebels die in attack on Brega
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Tripoli was rocked by a series of airstrikes by NATO forces in the early hours of the morning today.Libyan television reported that the "NATO crusader forces" had hit civilian and military targets in the eastern suburb of Tajoura.
Date: 07/17/2011 | Nation & World
French air drop weapons to Libyan rebels
PARIS -- France acknowledged Wednesday that it airlifted weapons to Libyan civilians fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces in a besieged mountain region south of Tripoli, becoming the first NATO country to do so in a major escalation in the international campaign.
Date: 06/29/2011 | Nation & World
House votes against defunding Libyan war
WASHINGTON — The House has turned back a Republican-led effort to cut off money for military hostilities in the Libyan war.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Nation & World
WWII veteran among those riding in Arlington’s July 4 parade
Take a moment to recognize who is riding in the veterans' truck during Arlington's July 4 parade. Those folks served our country and preserved our freedom.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Local News
Kerry, McCain push Libya resolution in Senate
WASHINGTON -- Two top senators on Tuesday unveiled a resolution giving President Barack Obama limited authority in the 3-month-old war against Libya, warning that the drastic step of cutting off funds for the military operation would be a lifeline to a weakened Moammar Gadhafi.
Date: 06/21/2011 | Nation & World
7 killed in Syria as protests turn violent
BEIRUT -- Syrian President Bashar Assad's effort to drown out pro-democracy protests exploded into clashes between government supporters and opponents Tuesday, and security forces opened fire and killed seven people, including a teenager, activists said.
Date: 06/21/2011 | Nation & World
Gates lashes out at weakness in NATO
BRUSSELS — Outgoing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates lashed out at some of America's closest European allies, complaining that NATO's shaky air assault in Libya had laid bare shortcomings that are pushing the alliance toward "collective military irrelevance."
Date: 06/11/2011 | Nation & World
Syrian troops sweep through north; unrest kills 32
YAYLADAGI, Turkey — Elite Syrian forces moved swiftly through the country's restive north on Friday, raining tank shells on rebellious towns, torching farmland and shooting protesters who tried to tear down a poster of President Bashar Assad, activists and refugees said.
Date: 06/11/2011 | Nation & World
British, French helicopters strike Gadhafi troops
BENGHAZI, Libya — British Apache and French attack helicopters struck targets for the first time in NATO's campaign in Libya, hitting Moammar Gadhafi's troops early Saturday near a key coastal oil town, the alliance said. Hours later, at least eight airstrikes were heard in Tripoli.
Date: 06/04/2011 | Nation & World
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