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April 20, 2013
19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken into custody after he was found hiding in a boat in a suburban Massachusetts yard.
April 19, 2013
Scores are injured as Islamist anti-judiciary protesters clash with unknown rivals, demanding a 'cleansing' of the court membership. Rallies near Egypt's High Court in downtown Cairo erupted into violence as firearms were used leaving at least 95 injured.
The kid brother, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, of the murdering Boston bombing duo is still on the loose but his car may have been located. The Muslim, originally Chechen, brothers are accused of afflicting terror on the Boston marathon and killing a police officer in the MIT campus.
April 18, 2013
Activists told Amnesty International that dozens of protestors have been arrested
Seven-strong group arrested for financing, recruiting and providing logistical support for al-Qaeda's regional activity
Confusion in Boston after reports that a suspect was in custody were later declared false.
Around 200 U.S. Army planners will be dispatched to Jordan as the conflict in neighboring Syria worsens, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a Senate hearing on Wednesday
April 17, 2013
As the announcement breaks of more U.S. troops deployed to Jordan to help contain Syria, we look at the U.S. ambassador to Jordan's affirmation of the U.S.'s solidarity with the Kingdom as borne out by Obama's recent visit and material aid flow.
In a TV interview on state al-Ikhbariya channel Assad said that the West would pay dearly for funding Al-Qaeda as it did in Afghanistan. He also emphasized that his army's priority was protecting civilian lives, while lashing out at neighbor Jordan for supporting rebels across the borders.
The retrial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during Egypt's 2011 revolution will begin on May 11.
The court also ordered that Prime Minister Hisham Qandil should be removed from his post for failure to nationalize the Tanta Flax and Oil Company
Syrian activists say a regime rocket attack on Wednesday morning on a village near the central city of Homs killed at least seven people.
The UN-Arab League envoy to Syria feels his neutrality has been compromised by Arab bloc's moves to recognize Syrian opposition
The Saudi Arabian man who was put under armed guard at a hospital in the aftermath of Monday's Boston Marathon bombings is not a suspect, AFP reports.
Rockets struck the Israeli Red Sea resort town Eilat on Wednesday morning, causing no casualties
