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Paul Bristol has been jailed in England for at least 22 years for murdering his ex-girlfriend after he saw a picture of her on the Internet with another man.

Indonesia’s president says a top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings has been identified as the man shot dead by police in a raid on the island of Java.

The two “bad options” for Iran — letting the country develop nuclear weapons or using force to destroy its nuclear capabilities — are closer than they were a year ago, Israel’s U.N. ambassador warned Tuesday.

A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, while the leader of her Baptist group remained in custody.

One of three terror suspects killed during raids Tuesday near Jakarta may include what authorities said was one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, but police were still trying to confirm his identity.

Seven people have been arrested in the Republic of Ireland over a suspected plot to kill a Swedish artist who portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a dog and had a $100,000 Al Qaeda bounty on his head.

North Korea’s army said Monday it is ready to “blow up” South Korea and the U.S., hours after the allies kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang has slammed as a rehearsal for attack.

A serial sex-offender today admitted kidnapping, raping and murdering a teenager whom he lured to meet him using a false identity on the social networking site Facebook.

An American member of Al Qaeda was picked up in a raid in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, Pakistani officials said Monday, but reversed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network’s U.S.-born spokesman.

The top U.S. general for Iraq said Monday the country’s national election was a milestone on the way to a full pullout of U.S. combat troops by September 1 as planned.