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Iraqi and U.S. forces zeroed in Abu Musab al-Zarqawi several times over three years only to see him narrowly escape. In the end, his own terrorist network betrayed him.

One state has a long history with Honda Motor Co. The other, a more favorable tax structure. Both have quality work forces and good transportation systems.

Rocket launchers and radios strapped to their backs, U.S. Marines burst into a dark, lantern-lit villa after nightfall, forcing a quaking Iraqi man and his mother into a corner at gunpoint with hands on their heads.

A Syrian terrorist killed in northwestern Pakistan was a close aide of al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri, a top minister said Sunday.

Animal-rights activists said they were harassed by protesters Thursday and prevented from documenting the Canada's seal hunt, despite police intervention.

The final leg of Canada's contentious seal hunt moved to the ice floes off northeastern Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday, with sealers expected to harvest another 234,000 harp seal pups.

Actress Pamela Anderson's has added her name to the growing list of celebrities speaking out against Canada's annual seal hunt, which just got under way.

Opponents of Canada's much-maligned seal hunt said their rights were being violated by authorities who were attempting to keep them off the ice.

Sealers took to the thawing ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, the first day of Canada's contentious seal hunt, confronting animal rights activists who claim the annual cull is cruel.

Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships killed at least 15 suspected Taliban sympathizers Friday in the latest flare-up of violence near the Afghan border, the Pakistani army said.

Canada's contentious seal hunt begins Saturday in the frozen ice floes off the Gulf of St. Lawrence, federal fisheries officials announced Thursday, as animal-rights activists gear up for their annual protests.

Protesters, celebrities and fishermen were gearing up for Canada's hotly debated seal hunt, set to get under way later this week in the gulf off the Atlantic Ocean.

Canada's contentious seal hunt will soon start, the government announced Wednesday, despite protests by Paul McCartney and other animal-rights activists who condemn the killing of the pups as inhumane.

Canada's contentious seal hunt will soon start, the government accounced Wednesday, despite protests by former Beatle Paul McCartney and other animal-rights activists who condemn the killing of the pups as inhumane.

A brief look at the seal hunt off Canada's East Coast:

Paul McCartney and his wife took to the frigid ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday in a bid to halt Canada's annual slaughter of weeks-old seal pups.

Opponents of Canada's seal hunt have a powerful ally in their bid to end the annual slaughter: Paul McCartney, who pledged to take to the ice floes Thursday and frolic with the doe-eyed pups before the harvest gets under way.

Pakistani soldiers and helicopter gunships attacked a suspected al-Qaida camp Wednesday near the Afghan border, killing more than 45 militants and angering residents who called for a holy war days before a visit by President Bush.

Pakistani security forces struck a militant training camp Wednesday in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing three dozen fighters, including a Chechen commander linked to al-Qaida, an army official said.

Paul McCartney and his wife will travel to the ice floes off the Canadian Maritimes this week to observe seal pups before the country's annual hunt opens, the Humane Society of the United States said.

Police in northern Sydney went crocodile hunting Thursday after locals reported seeing one of the reptiles in a suburban waterway.

Pakistan was hunting for more than 100 Taliban fugitives whose names were on a list provided by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, officials said Wednesday.

A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers.

Just days before a Chinese firm announced a $2.3 billion investment in a Nigerian oil field last month, President Hu Jintao warned that China has to rein in surging energy use that has made it one of the world's biggest oil importers.