Day: July 12, 2011

CIA operatives have secretly traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia, to help interrogate terrorism suspects about operations in East Africa and Yemen, a senior U.S. official told CNN Tuesday.

Guatemalan police arrested two suspects Tuesday in connection with the killing of one of Latin America’s most celebrated folk singers, but said evidence shows the musician’s death could have been a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

At least 500 people were sickened Tuesday night by a cloud of chlorine gas that leaked from a water treatment plant over Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, health and police officials said.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it has suspended its search for seven Americans who have been missing since a charter fishing boat sank off the coast of Mexico nine days ago.

Envoys with the Mideast Quartet are expected to meet again Tuesday after they failed to reach an agreement on how to jumpstart stalled talks between Israelis and Palestinians.

Envoys with the Mideast Quartet are expected to meet again Tuesday after they failed to reach an agreement on how to jumpstart stalled talks between Israelis and Palestinians.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday accused media magnate Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers of having “links with criminals” as he spoke to the BBC about allegations the Sunday Times illegally obtained private information about him.

The half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was shot dead at his home in Kandahar on Tuesday, the provincial governor’s office said.