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NAIROBI, Kenya – Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and killed by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said, marking the first time U.S. citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years. U.S...

-- Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday ordered the Army to send four battalions of soldiers to the country's northern borderlands, the site of increasing violence fueled by the drug trade. Since Monday alone, gunmen have killed a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent, a man...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2011/02/17/wv.three.us.marshals.shot.wdtv -- A deputy U.S. marshal who had been with the service for just over a year was fatally shot while serving an arrest warrant Wednesday morning in West Virginia, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service...

-- A federal court sentenced a Somali man to nearly 34 years in prison Wednesday for acts related to high-seas piracy after he and three other men hijacked a U.S.-flagged ship as it cruised past the Horn of Africa. Abduwali Abukhadir Muse pleaded guilty to the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk...

-- A Pakistani judge on Thursday postponed until March 14 a hearing for a jailed American diplomat accused of shooting and killing two men, a government official said. Thursday's hearing was delayed after the Foreign Ministry asked that it be given three weeks to respond to questions from the...

One of the founders of a notorious B.C. gang has been resentenced to 30 years in a U.S. prison on drug charges, restoring an earlier sentence that was overturned on appeal. Clay Roueche the founder of the United Nations Gang, was sentenced in a Seattle court after pleading guilty to conspiracy...

-- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Pakistan to release a jailed U.S. diplomat accused of killing two people, warning that his prosecution could endanger the "important principle" of diplomatic immunity. "Obviously, we're concerned about the loss of life. You know, we're not callous...

-- Gunmen opened fire on two U.S. immigration agents in Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring the other, officials said. The two agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were attacked Tuesday afternoon while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey. One of the agents...

-- Gunmen opened fire and tossed a grenade inside a downtown bar early Saturday in the tourist district of Guadalajara, Mexico, killing six people and wounding another 37, authorities said. Jalisco State Prosecutor Tomas Coronado Olmos said the attack may have been the result of a fight between...

A Lebanese bank with links to Canada is being accused by U.S. law enforcement agencies of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars every month for an international drug ring with ties to Hezbollah. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Treasury alleged Thursday that the...

-- A Pakistani court has ordered a jailed American diplomat to remain in custody for 14 more days, authorities said Friday. The man's lawyer then filed a petition calling for his immediate release, saying he is covered under diplomatic immunity. Raymond Davis, who allegedly shot and killed two...

-- Members of Congress told senior Pakistani leaders that billions of dollars of U.S. aid are in jeopardy unless an American diplomat, detained since January 27 in connection with the shooting deaths of two Pakistani civilians, is released. "We indicated it could very well be" that the U.S...

A movie about a Japanese World War Two captain rallying his troops to hold out against overwhelming U.S. odds after the end of the Battle of Saipan sounds like a typical tale of guts, gore and a glorious end. Yet "Oba: The Last Samurai," set for release on Friday in Japan, is far from the usual...

ISLAMABAD – U.S. officials say Washington may scrap upcoming talks with Pakistan about the war in Afghanistan to further push Islamabad to free an American who shot dead two Pakistanis. The U.S. says insists the detained American has diplomatic immunity and killed the Pakistanis in self-defense...

-- Even as the U.S. military investigates Pfc. Bradley Manning, it's also been looking at its own department. Specifically, what steps may have been missed that led to Manning being accused of one of the largest leaks of classified material in U.S. history. A military official says Army...

-- Paul Merle Eischeid, one of the U.S. Marshals Service's "15 Most Wanted" fugitives, is no longer on the run. Eischeid, 39, was captured Thursday in Buenos Aires by Argentine authorities, according to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal law enforcement officials...

-- President Barack Obama's goal of putting 1 million electric cars on U.S. roads by 2015 could run into a huge roadblock -- the American consumer. According to a report released Wednesday by researchers at Indiana University, automakers are unlikely to manufacture enough cars to reach the...

-- A Pakistani judge has ordered that a U.S. consular employee accused of killing two Pakistanis can be held for eight more days, a court official said Thursday. Raymond Davis will remain in the custody of Pakistani authorities in the latest ruling related to the killing of two Pakistani boys...

-- A Pakistani judge ordered the government Tuesday not to hand over to American authorities a U.S. consular employee accused of killing two Pakistanis who allegedly tried to rob him. The judge ordered Raymond Davis to remain in the custody of Pakistani authorities until further notice and for...

-- The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan is calling for the immediate release of a consular employee who allegedly shot to death two Pakistanis as they tried to rob him. The unnamed diplomat -- who has a U.S. diplomatic passport -- is being "unlawfully detained" by authorities in the city of Lahore...