Topic: United States
MADRID (Reuters) - One of three Spanish aid workers kidnapped by a group believed to be al Qaeda's wing in North Africa arrived back in Spain Wednesday after she was released in Mali. Looking tired and thinner than in photos taken before she was seized along with two other Spaniards in northern Mauritania by a gang armed with machine guns ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's prime minister has extended the term of the head of the country's main intelligence agency by a year in a move expected to preserve continuity in the fight against Islamist militancy. Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, director general of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, was due to retire this month but will remain ...
Gov. Mark Parkinson called Kansas' first unemployment report for 2010 "discouraging," urging legislators Wednesday to put politics aside in finding solutions. The state Department of Labor says Kansas' jobless rate in January was 7.1 percent — up from 6.2 percent in December and 6.3 percent ...
