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US warship watches Somali pirates with US hostage (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:47 PM PDT

AP - Somali pirates and their hostage American sea captain were adrift in a lifeboat Thursday off the Horn of Africa, shadowed by a U.S. destroyer with more warships on the way in a U.S. show of force. The U.S. brought in FBI hostage negotiators to work with the military in trying to secure the release of Capt. Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vt. An official said the bandits were in talks with the Navy about resolving the standoff peacefully.

UK's top anti-terror officer resigns after blunder (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:05 PM PDT

AP - Britain's top counter-terrorist police officer resigned Thursday after he was photographed carrying clearly visible secret documents about an operation against an alleged al-Qaida plot by Pakistani nationals to launch an attack in Britain.

Care arrives for pets lost, injured in Italy quake (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 01:47 PM PDT

AP - Help started to arrive Thursday for the more than 2,000 cats and dogs believed to have been left homeless by the earthquake in Italy.

Owners debate arming ships against Somali pirates (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 01:18 PM PDT

AP - Crews have held pirates off with Molotov cocktails, crates of rubbish and oil drums. They've electrified handrails, sprayed attackers with high-pressure fire hoses and simply kicked the pirates' rickety ladders overboard.

Cyber spying a threat, and everyone is in on it (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 12:53 PM PDT

AP - Ghost hackers infiltrating the computers of Tibetan exiles and the U.S. electric grid have pulled the curtain back on 21st-century espionage as nefarious as anything from the Cold War and far more difficult to stop.

UK's new Catholic leader opposes changing sex ads (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:07 PM PDT

AFP - Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who will take over as the head of the Catholic Church of England and Wales next month, warned Friday against relaxing rules on broadcasting abortion and condom adverts.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,266 (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:37 PM PDT

AP - As of Thursday, April 9, 2009, at least 4,266 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Mexico: Guatemalan ex-soldier in cartel pay killed (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 02:35 PM PDT

AP - Mexican authorities say a former Guatemalan soldier who allegedly procured weapons for a drug cartel was killed in a gunfight with federal police.

A little pirate humor (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 03:57 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - There's nothing funny about the hostage situation off the coast of Somalia, where the captain of the U.S. cargo ship that was hijacked yesterday is still being held by four pirates. But this time you have to believe the pirates had no idea what they were getting into. Could the first known case of a hijacked crew fighting back finally scare these crazy buccaneers into reining in their operations?

US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 603 (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:38 PM PDT

AP - As of Thursday, April 9, 2009, at least 603 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.