U.S. Senate allows John Brennan to become CIA director
The Senate confirmed John Brennan to be CIA director after the Obama administration bowed to demands from Republicans blocking the nomination and stated explicitly there are limits on the president's power to use drones against U.S. terror suspects on American soil.
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Toronto mayor says he doesn’t smoke crack cocaine
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used crack.
IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
PARIS (AP) — IMF chief Christine Lagarde says a Paris court has named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman arranged while she was France's finance minister.
UK court: Lawmaker’s wife’s tweet was libelous
LONDON (AP) — Britain's High Court has ruled that a tweet posted by the wife of the speaker of Parliament about a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse was libelous.
Toronto’s Ford denies ‘crack video’
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has denied allegations from a major Canadian newspaper he was caught on camera smoking crack cocaine.
Has Obama tightened US drone strike policy, or not?
Has President Obama made US policy on lethal drone strikes more restrictive, or not? That’s a question arising in the wake of the big speech on American security that Mr. Obama delivered Thursday at the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington.
Nigeria Boko Haram camps ‘destroyed’
The Nigerian army says it has destroyed a number of camps used by militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, in the north-east of the country.
