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No place to bury dead Boston bombing suspect

Sheikh Abu Omar Almubarac, a prominent member of the Denver-area Muslim community, prays at his home and office in Aurora, Colorado, Tuesday May 7, 2013. Officials with Colorado's largest mosque on Tuesday repudiated Almubarac's offer to bury suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a Denver-area cemetery, saying it's the obligation of the man's family or Muslims in Boston to decide where he is buried, not an organization a thousand miles away.  AP/BRENNAN LINSLEY

A police spokesman in Worcester in the US state of Massachusetts says the department has been reluctantly dragged into the efforts to find a burial plot for dead Boston Marathon suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Posted: May 9th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Boston bombing suspect charged, could face death penalty

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a file photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tsarnaev was charged by federal prosecutors in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill—a crime that carries a possible death sentence.  AP PHOTO/FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged by federal prosecutors in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill—a crime that carries a possible death sentence.

Posted: April 23rd, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Boston suspects likely planned more attacks—police chief

This image made available by the Massachusetts State Police shows 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, hiding inside a boat during a search for him in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was pulled, wounded and bloody, from the boat parked in the backyard of a home in the Greater Boston area.  AP PHOTO/MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE

Investigators believe that two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing were likely planning other attacks based on the cache of weapons uncovered, the city’s police commissioner said Sunday.

Posted: April 22nd, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

FBI releases images of 2 Boston bombing suspects

This image released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, shows an image from video what the FBI is calling suspect number 1 with a black hat walking with a backpack in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP PHOTO/FBI)

The FBI has released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and is asking for the public’s help in identifying the men.

Posted: April 19th, 2013 in Featured Gallery,Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

2 villages in Basilan rocked by explosions

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Two barangays (villages) in Lamitan City in Basilan province were rocked by simultaneous explosions on Thursday night.

Posted: April 18th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Regions | Read More »

Boston bomb suspect caught in video footage—official

Heavily armed Homeland Security police patrol outside the Moakley Federal Court House in Boston after the building was evacuated, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, amid conflicting reports that a suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing is in custody, in Boston. The FBI and the US attorney's office in Boston say no arrests have been made in Monday's bombing.  AP/MICHAEL DWYER

Investigators of the deadly Boston Marathon bombing have an image from surveillance video of a man dropping off a bag containing one of the bombs, a politician said Wednesday.

Posted: April 18th, 2013 in Featured Gallery,Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Boston bomb part found by accident

Investigators look through the top of a building on Boylston Street, two days after two bombs exploded just before the Boston Marathon finish line, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in Boston. Authorities investigating the deadly bombings have recovered a piece of circuit board that they believe was part of one of the explosive devices, and also found the lid of a pressure cooker that apparently was catapulted onto the roof of a nearby building, an official said Wednesday.  AP FILE PHOTO

A suspected component of a bomb used in the deadly Boston marathon attack was found by accident on the roof of a city hotel, the owner told AFP on Wednesday.

Posted: April 18th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

US Muslims fear backlash over Boston bombings

Kameelah Omar-Muhammad (right) of Atlanta, Georgia, greets Khadijah Shareef of Muslim Women of America in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the "Islam on Capitol Hill 2009" event at the West Front Lawn of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, in this file photo. US Muslims are watching closely as the probe into the Boston bombings unfolds, fearing a backlash like after 9/11 if an Islamist link is confirmed to the deadly attack.  ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

US Muslims are watching closely as the probe into the Boston bombings unfolds, fearing a backlash like after 9/11 if an Islamist link is confirmed to the deadly attack.

Posted: April 18th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

3 faces of Boston’s tragedy

BOSTON MOURNS  Neighbors hug outside the home of 8-year-old Martin Richard in Dorchester, Boston, on Tuesday as they mourn the death of the boy and two others in Monday’s bomb attack at the Boston Marathon.  AP

Eight-year-old Martin Richard had just gotten ice cream and was near the Boston Marathon finish line, eagerly watching for friends to run by. Krystle Campbell was enjoying the race with her best friend, hoping to get a photo of the other woman’s boyfriend after he conquered the last kilometer.

Posted: April 18th, 2013 in Featured Gallery,Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Obama to visit Boston on Thursday

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick speaks as Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, middle, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, far right, listen at a news conference in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013 regarding two bombs that exploded in the street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 170.  AP PHOTO/ELISE AMENDOLA

President Barack Obama will visit Boston on Thursday, three days after a pair of deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.

Posted: April 17th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Pressure-cooker bombs suspected in Boston blast

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The bombs that ripped through the Boston Marathon crowd appear to have been fashioned out of ordinary kitchen pressure cookers, packed with nails and other fiendishly lethal shrapnel, and hidden in duffel bags left on the ground, investigators and others close to the case said Tuesday.

Posted: April 17th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Boston attack ‘act of terror’—Obama, Pentagon chief

PHILIPPINE TRICOLOR  One of the two deadly explosions that marred the Boston Marathon occurred near a row of national flags that included the  Philippine tricolor. The blasts killed three people and wounded over 144, 17 critically.  TV GRAB

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday branded the Boston bombings a “cowardly” act of terror, but said it was still unclear if a foreign or domestic group or individual was behind the attacks.

Posted: April 17th, 2013 in Banner Story,Editors' Picks,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Nation,Photos & Videos | Read More »

Security beefed up worldwide after Boston blasts

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Police monitor New York's Times Square during an increase in security following an explosion at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Police in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, London and other cities around the world stepped up security Monday following deadly explosions at the Boston Marathon.

Posted: April 16th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

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