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| Nigerian charged with trying to blow up U.S. jet
December 26, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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| DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Saturday charged a Nigerian man with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet with high explosives and were investigating his claim that he had links to al Qaeda. |
| Security tightened for U.S.-bound air passengers
December 26, 2009 at 9:45 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Airline passengers headed for the United States faced tighter security measures on Saturday after an attempt to blow up a U.S. jet bound for Detroit, including pat-downs and an order to stay seated during the last hour of flight, airlines and security officials said. |
| Bomb hits Hamas car in Beirut, casualties unclear
December 26, 2009 at 5:09 pm
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| BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Saturday, targeting a car used by members of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. |
| Nigerian charged for trying to blow up U.S. airliner
December 26, 2009 at 4:15 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Nigerian national, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was charged on Saturday with trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on a flight to Detroit on Christmas day using a high explosive, the U.S. Justice Department said. |
| Bomb squad searches Lufthansa jet in Iceland
December 26, 2009 at 2:43 pm
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| REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - A Lufthansa flight en route from Frankfurt to Detroit with about 200 passengers made an emergency landing in Iceland on Saturday after it was found to be carrying luggage whose owner had not boarded the plane. |
| Oklahoma firm recalling beef products in six states
December 26, 2009 at 12:31 pm
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| CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Oklahoma company said it was voluntarily recalling 248,000 lbs (112,000 kg) of beef products in six states following an outbreak of illnesses involving E. coli bacteria. |
| Airline suspect is Nigeria banker's son
December 26, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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| LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian who has been detained in Detroit after trying to ignite an explosive device on a U.S. passenger plane is the son of a prominent former banker, a family member told Reuters on Saturday. |
| Europe tightens security after foiled U.S. attack
December 26, 2009 at 11:00 am
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| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Airports and airlines across Europe moved rapidly to tighten security on U.S.-bound flights on Saturday after a man tried to set off explosives on a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. |
| Vatican mulls options over woman who lunged at pope
December 26, 2009 at 10:19 am
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| VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday it had not yet decided whether to take legal action against the woman who lunged at Pope Benedict while calls grew for more efficient security to protect the pontiff. |
| U.S. drone aircraft kills three in Pakistan
December 26, 2009 at 9:58 am
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| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A pilotless U.S. drone aircraft attacked a suspected militant target in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing three people, intelligence officials said. |
| Iraqi and Iranian forces stand off in oil well row
December 26, 2009 at 9:35 am
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| AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi and Iranian forces are dug in on either side of a disputed inactive oil well in the sensitive border area, with Iraqis vowing to fight if necessary to fend off another occupation of the well by Iranian soldiers. |
| Israel kills six Palestinians in West Bank,Gaza
December 26, 2009 at 7:05 am
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| NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians on Saturday in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in the bloodiest violent outbreak in months. |
| U.S. says al Qaeda-linked man tries to blow up plane
December 26, 2009 at 6:29 am
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| DETROIT/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Nigerian man believed to be linked to al Qaeda militants was in custody on Saturday after he tried to ignite an explosive device on a U.S. passenger plane as it approached Detroit, U.S. officials said. |
| Strong quake in eastern Indonesia, no tsunami
December 26, 2009 at 5:37 am
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| JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake struck off Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands in the east of the country on Saturday, but there was no tsunami alert issued and no reports of immediate damage, the country's meteorology agency said. |
| Clashes erupt in Iran on Shi'ite holy day: report
December 26, 2009 at 5:28 am
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - A reformist website said Iranian riot police fired tear gas to disperse opposition supporters in Tehran who used a religious commemoration on Saturday to try to revive anti-government protests in the Islamic Republic. |
| Taliban planned to use Americans in Pakistan attacks
December 26, 2009 at 3:29 am
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| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents had planned to use five Americans detained in Pakistan, who had contacted the militant group through the Internet, to carry out attacks inside the U.S. ally, a police official said on Saturday. |
| Asia marks tsunami's fifth anniversary with prayers
December 26, 2009 at 1:43 am
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| PATONG, Thailand (Reuters) - Thousands of saffron-robed Thai monks chanted and prayed for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Saturday as Asia marked the fifth anniversary of one of history's worst natural disasters. |
| Ship fire kills nine off Venezuela: state media
December 25, 2009 at 10:54 pm
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| CARACAS (Reuters) - Nine sailors were killed and five were burned in a Christmas Day blaze aboard a Greek freighter in waters off a Venezuelan Caribbean island, the official Venezuelan news agency ABN reported on Friday. |
| U.S. rights activist crosses into North Korea: reports
December 25, 2009 at 10:12 pm
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| SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. human rights activist trying to raise global attention about the suffering of the North Korean people has crossed into the reclusive state, other activists and South Korean media said on Saturday. | | | 
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