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New evidence released at the Queen of the North trial underway in Vancouver has revealed it took officials five hours to realize that two people were missing after the ship sank. More...

AP - Elections officials in several states are concerned that the closing of mail-processing centers and post offices could disrupt vote-by-mail balloting this year, a potential problem that has led some members of Congress to call for a delay until after the November elections. More...

AP - State officials are revising the death toll from a severe storm in southern Illinois, saying six people have been confirmed dead. More...

AP - U.S. drone-fired missiles hit a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing nine people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. More...

AP - Outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave soon to Oman, en route to medical treatment in the United States, Yemeni officials said on Saturday, part of an American effort to get the embattled strongman out of the country to allow a peaceful transition from his rule. More...

AP - A bomb exploded Friday at a busy Damascus intersection, killing 25 people and wounding dozens in the second major attack in the Syrian capital in as many weeks, officials said, vowing to respond to further security threats with an "iron fist." More...

Cofer Black warns that government officials shouldn't dismiss warnings of imminent cyberattacks. More...

Just a few weeks after German authorities opened a national Cyber Defense Center in Bonn it was attacked by hackers and now officials are struggling to arrest all of those involved. More...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has raised the official death toll from Tropical Storm Arlene to 22. Civil protection officials say the most deaths have been recorded in the central state of Hidalgo and the northern state of San Luis Potosi, with each state reporting five. In the...

Los Angeles (CNN) -- California wants to shift low-level state offenders to county jails as a way to reduce overcrowding, as ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court, under an unfunded plan that would require legislative and voter approval, the state's top corrections official said Tuesday. State...

(CNN) -- A deadly bacterial outbreak that has killed at least 23 people in Europe is limited to an area around the German city of Hamburg and does not require Europe-wide controls, a top European Union official said Tuesday. "There is no reason as of today to take ... measures at (the) European...

Baghdad (CNN) -- At least 25 people, including five U.S. soldiers, have died in a series of explosions across Iraq on Monday, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The deadliest attack Monday was in Tikrit, where a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a security checkpoint...

(CNN) -- Crews battling one of the worst wildfires in Arizona history prepared Monday to hold a 30-mile line against the advancing blaze even as accelerating winds threatened to undo their efforts, officials said. The "Wallow Fire," as the blaze is known, has scorched 192,746 acres and has...

Baghdad (CNN) -- Two people were injured when a bomb struck a government convoy in a west-central neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, Interior Ministry officials told CNN. Abdul Karim Abdullah, deputy human rights minister, escaped injury but two of his bodyguards were hurt in the explosion...

The chairman of the police commission in Taber, south of Calgary, has been arrested and charged with child pornography offences, officials said Tuesday. The charges arose after officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security contacted Canadian authorities about an alleged...

A female grizzly bear has been struck and killed by a Canadian Pacific train in Banff National Park. It happened near Lake Louise on Saturday evening, Parks Canada officials said in a written release. The adult bear's two yearling cubs were found nearby the following day, officials said. The...

Madrid (CNN) -- Spain's National Court issued an arrest warrant Monday for 20 Salvadoran military officials in connection with the slayings of six priests, their housekeeper and her daughter more than two decades ago. The event, known as the "Jesuit Massacre," became one of the most notorious...

<div>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Embarrassed by the Osama bin Laden raid and by a series of insurgent attacks on high-security sites, top Pakistani military officials are increasingly concerned that their ranks are penetrated by Islamists who are aiding militants in a campaign against the state. Those...

Baghdad (CNN) -- Seventeen bombs exploded Sunday within hours of one another in Baghdad, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 80, Iraqi authorities said. The bombings came the same day Britain wrapped up its military mission in Iraq, leaving a predominantly American military...

Istanbul (CNN) -- An earthquake that rattled western Turkey killed at least two people and injured dozens more, hospital and government officials said on Friday. The 5.8 magnitude quake, recorded late Thursday, occurred more than 200 miles west-southwest of the capital of Ankara, the U.S...