News Archive - 2 May 2011

>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil slipped on Monday in volatile trading as investors weighed the effect on crude futures and other markets from news that U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Brokers and analysts said oil's early tumble and the U.S. dollar's initial bounce after...

Osama bin Laden, who was killed in Pakistan on Monday, was a son of the Saudi elite whose radical, violent campaign to recreate a seventh-century Muslim empire redefined the threat of terrorism for the 21st century.

This article is by Mark Landler, Thom Shanker and Alissa J. Rubin.

WASHINGTON -- The killing of Osama bin Laden deep in Pakistan is sure to fuel the debate over the Obama administration's strategy in Afghanistan, where 100,000 troops are still fighting a war to destroy al-Qaida. And the raid, conducted without the cooperation or even advance knowledge of Pakistan, raised fresh...

More surprising than the death of Osama bin Laden on Monday was the fact that he lived unmolested in a mansion in Abbottabad, about 65 kilometers north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

Two dozen members of the US Navys SEAL Team Six carried out the helicopter assault on Osama bin Ladens fortified compound deep inside Pakistan

People across America are celebrating Osama bin Laden's death - but Wall Street apparently didn't get the invitation. An...

When the US military was sure Osama bin Laden was hiding in a Pakistan mansion, the President could've ordered bombers or drones to destroy the place. But instead, commanders made a different choice.

The operation to kill or capture Osama bin Laden was rehearsed in a replica of the Abbottabad compound where the al Qaeda founder was hiding, US officials revealed.The team, SEAL Team Six - formed in the wake of the botched US...

WASHINGTON—US Navy SEALs, legendarily tough, secretive specialists, led the bold commando operation in Pakistan that took down the world's most wanted man: 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, US officials said.

by Staff Writers Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) May 2, 2011 The United Arab Emirates has launched its fifth communications satellite, the first to provide secure and independent telecommunications for its armed forces as Persian Gulf Arab state boost their military capabilities against Iran.

Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN: And back live now, and we turn next to how President Obama and his top officials put together the plan that led to the killing of bin Laden . Margaret Warner has been reporting that part of the story . She joins us from the White...

MANILA, May 3 (PNA) -- A record number of 44 countries, represented by 128 of the best pool players in the world, will take part in the 2011 World Ten-Ball Championship of the World Pool-Billiard Association, when it starts on Tuesday, May 10, at the World Trade Center in Pasay...

The security machinery that controls us all is bin Laden's enduring monument. WHETHER we like it or not, the name of Osama bin Laden will occupy a prominent place in the history of our times.

The U.S. military's success in finding and killing Osama bin Laden is a gigantic victory in the war against terror and for a safer, freer world. But if this is to be the beginning of the end for al Qaeda and repressive governments everywhere, we have to make...

TEHRAN, Iran — The United States has no excuse to keep troops in the Middle East after killing al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, a senior Iranian official said Monday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the U.S. can no longer keep troops to the region under the pretext...

> The report, for which there was no immediate corroboration, appeared on the website of Press TV. It quoted what it said was a source close to the movement of Moqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who opposes the U.S. presence in Iraq and who has close ties to...

>Colonel Dave Lapan said there was no truth to the report.Earlier, Iraqi air force commander Staff Lieutenant General Anwar Ahmed also rejected the report as "groundless."(Reporting by Phil Stewart, Editing by Sandra Maler) Politics Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints...

>ASHKELON, Israel (Reuters) - For 80-year-old David Ariel, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, parting with cherished letters from his mother, killed at Auschwitz death camp, was a painful but necessary duty. Ariel and thousands of other elderly Israeli survivors answered a call by Yad Vashem, Israel's national memorial to...

NEW YORK - GOVERNMENTS worldwide are developing new tools to censor reporters as the media increasingly moves online, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday. In a report released on the eve of World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday, the committee said 69 journalists whose work appears mostly online...

US President Barack Obama has announced that Osama Bin Laden is dead.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Fiat Announces Profits, United Against Nuclear Again Calls on Fiat to Stop Pursuing Profits from Iran. Fiat Plans to Own a Majority Stake in U.S. Automaker Chrysler by Year's End.

The Senate Armed Services Committee wants more information about the special operations helicopter that was blown up Sunday by U.S. Navy SEALs after suffering some kind of failure during the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden.

A man was arrested over the weekend in Southern California, accused of murdering his Bakersfield fiancee seven years ago.

American Navy Seals stormed a compound in suburban Abbottabad in Pakistan, about 50 miles north of the capital Islamabad, and gunned down bin Laden after a firefight in an operation that took just 40 minutes to execute but four years to fructify.

Barack Obama's stunning late-night revelation that America had finally got its man makes for a profound moment in his presidency.

Seal Team Six (ST6), an elite branch of the Navy, stormed the mansion in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden and his family were hiding, killing bin Laden. It's known that up to 25 Navy SEALs aboard two helicopters stormed bin Laden's compound.   It took nine years, seven months and...

In this image released by the White House, President Barack Obama listens during one in a series of meetings discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden, in the Situation Room of the White House on Sunday in Washington.

>Following are key dates in gold's trading history since the early 1970s:* August 1971 - U.S. President Richard Nixon takes the dollar off the gold standard, which had been in place with minor modifications since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 fixed the conversion rate for one Troy ounce...

>SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The United States collaborated with Saudi Arabia to increase crude oil supplies to China at the expense of Iran, U.S. diplomatic cables show. The move was designed to hurt Iran and win Beijing's support for sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program. China has long worried...

Officials in Bahrain say Iranian hackers festooned the Housing Ministry Web site with anti-government slogans. Similar attacks have been launched against the Philippines Embassy in Bahrain and several publications, Gulf Daily News reported, saying it had been one of the victims.

Ahmadinejad's close relationship with the senior cleric, who has the last word in the Islamic Republic's affairs, was strained two weeks ago.

In a phone conversation with EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned the EU of the potential consequences of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation as the two groups prepare to sign a unity deal in Cairo today (2 May). He asked Brussels to adopt a cautious approach. 

The United States is currently engaged in three wars in the Middle East -- in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya. The United States has bases all around the world, in more than 150 countries. It has tense relations currently with North Korea and Iran, and has never ruled out military...

World leaders greeted the death of Osama Bin Laden with words of support, tempered by concerns about potential reprisals and further attacks.

The European Union's envoy to the Balkans criticised plans for a referendum on the legality of Bosnia's national court, saying the "irresponsible" vote would widen divisions in the fragile nation.

The thesis was just about gaining ground that the bitter legacy of the Arab spring is going to be the reawakening of the rough beast of sectarianism in the Muslim Middle East. Sectarian strife, it was prophesied, would lead to a Sunni-Shi'ite confrontation involving Saudi Arabia and Iran.

More surprising than the death of Osama bin Laden on Monday was the fact that he lived unmolested in a mansion in Abbottabad, about 65 kilometers north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad. How many Pakistani officials and others must have known about this?

TEL AVIV - Egypt is changing quickly. The emphasis is on "quickly". Ever since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak in February, it was clear that change was coming, even though skeptics doubted that the military which took over would do much to transform the country.

US forces were led to the fortress-like building where Osama was living with his eldest son and youngest wife after tracking one of his couriers.