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In this June 19, 2013 photo, an Indonesian youth browse his Facebook page at an internet cafe in Jakarta, Indonesia. The use of social networking to groom potential attackers is posing a new challenge to authorities in the world's most populous Muslim country that has been struggling to eradicate militant groups.
Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo

AP Exclusive: Facebook broke Indonesia terror case

Sefa Riano didn't try to hide his plans or his beliefs. A Facebook page that police traced to him is plastered with photos of bearded men in camouflage uniforms holding rifles and banners hailing "The Spirit of Jihad."

  • Kyrgyzstan votes to end US lease of airbase

    Kyrgyzstan has voted to end the United States' lease on an airbase key to supplying military operations in nearby Afghanistan.

  • Trial of Kenya's president to start in November

    The International Criminal Court has pushed back the start of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's crimes against humanity trial until Nov. 12.

  • Norway opens Arctic border area to oil drilling

    Norway's Parliament has opened up a new area on the fringe of the Arctic Ocean to offshore oil drilling despite protests from opponents who fear catastrophic oil spills in the remote and icy region.

  • Fire from JFK's eternal flame arrives in Ireland

    A torch lit from the eternal flame at President John F. Kennedy's graveside has arrived in Ireland ahead of ceremonies planned to mark the 50th anniversary of his 1963 visit.

  • This citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows homes destroyed by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling, in al-Qossur neighborhood in Homs province, Syria, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Syrian troops backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters clashed Wednesday with rebel forces south of a Damascus suburb that is home to a major Shiite Muslim shrine, in an attempt to secure the area surrounding the revered site, activists said.

    Saudi to expel Hezbollah supporters over Syria war

    The Saudi envoy to Lebanon says the kingdom will deport Lebanese citizens who support the militant Hezbollah group because of its role in the Syrian civil war.

  • Russia to fulfill Syria missile system contract

    Russia will honor its controversial contract to deliver S-300 air defense missile systems to Syria, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday.

  • ABN Amro chief says Dutch bank ready to privatize

    The chief executive of ABN Amro says the Dutch bank is ready to be privatized.

  • In this June 19, 2013 photo, Lei Zhengfu, center, former Communist Party chief of Beibei district, who was involved in a sex tape scandal, attends his trial on corruption charges, in a court in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. While the corruption trials of high-level officials typically look like the scripted outcome of behind-the-scenes bargaining, this case offers a rare look at what happens when a lower-level official is caught in a high-profile crackdown with few political cards to play. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

    China sex tape official: I'm a lecher but no crook

    Call me a lecher but don't call me a crook, an ex-city official at the heart of a sex tape scandal has said in his unusually spirited courtroom defense against corruption charges. Photo Gallery Available

  • In this June 18, 2013 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's President Xi Jinping addresses a conference on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) campaign aimed at boosting ties between CPC members and the public, in Beijing. China’s leadership wants to show a cynical public that it’s modernizing and serious about graft, but it appears to be favoring a top-down ideological campaign - with study sessions, self-criticism and propaganda - over imposing real checks on power. That worries many observers, not only because they doubt it will work, but because the tactic appears to be ripped out of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong’s playbook. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Jiansheng) NO SALES

    Stampede over Beckham injures 7 in Shanghai

    Fans eager to see football superstar David Beckham stormed a police cordon Thursday in a stampede at a Shanghai university that injured seven people including five security personnel.

  • Russia to fulfill Syria missile system contract

    Russia says it will honor its controversial contract to deliver S-300 air defense missile systems to Syria.

  • Soldiers from Indonesia's elite special forces, from left to right, 2nd Cpl. Kodik, 2nd Sgt. Sugeng Sumaryanto and 2nd Sgt. Ucok Simbolon enter the courtroom to attend their trial at the local military court in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 20, 2013. Twelve Kopassus soldiers were put on four separate trials Thursday for storming into a prison on March 23 and executing four inmates accused of murdering a fellow soldier.

    12 Indonesian soldiers on trial over prison attack

    A group of 12 soldiers from Indonesia's elite special forces went before a military court Thursday for allegedly storming a prison on the main Java island and killing four detainees to avenge the murder of a fellow soldier. Photo Gallery Available

  • A TV screen shows the Asian stocks index at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Thursday, June 20, 2013. Asian stock markets plummeted Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it could start scaling back its huge economic stimulus program later this year.

    Markets roiled by Bernanke's exit strategy

    Markets were roiled Thursday by a suggestion from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the central bank may be done with its monetary stimulus next year. While stocks and commodities took a pounding on the news, the dollar surged. Photo Gallery Available

  • A man stands under a RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, logo as he uses an ATM outside a branch of the bank in London, Thursday, June 13, 2013. Bailed-out U.K. lender Royal Bank of Scotland said Wednesday that Stephen Hester will step down as chief executive later this year — a move that creates some uncertainty as the bank prepares to return to the private sector. The board of the bank, which is 81 percent owned by the taxpayer after it was rescued by the U.K. government in 2008, said Hester was unable to make an open-ended commitment to lead the bank back into the private sector after having already served five years. The search for a successor will begin immediately.

    Regulators order lenders to raise more capital

    British regulators are ordering some of the country's biggest banks to bolster their balance sheets by 27. 1 billion pounds ($42.1 billion) to prevent a repeat of the 2008 banking crisis.

  • FILE - This file image provided by IntelCenter on Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010 shows a frame grab from a video released by the Taliban containing footage of a man believed to be Bowe Bergdahl, left. A Taliban spokesman, Shaheen Suhail, in an exclusive telephone interview with The Associated Press from the newly opened Taliban offices in Doha, Qatar, said Thursday, June 20, 2013, that they are ready to hand over U.S. soldier Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The U.S. is scrambling to save talks with the Taliban after angry complaints from Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File) MANDATORY CREDIT: INTELCENTER; NO SALES; EDS NOTE: "INTELCENTER" AT LEFT TOP CORNER ADDED BY SOURCE

    AP EXCLUSIVE: Taliban offer to free US soldier

    The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. army soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as a conciliatory gesture, a senior spokesman for the group said Thursday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Afghan National Army medics bandage the hand of a wounded Afghan policeman on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, a medical clinic in Nari District, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. As Afghan forces take over fighting this year, the Afghan National Army is struggling with a shortage of doctors.

    Medical care lags behind Afghan military growth

    The young Afghan soldier lay in great pain on a cot at an army base, his uniform pants cut up to his thigh so medics could clean the wound in his right knee where he was shot fighting insurgents. Photo Gallery Available

  • Jewish educator who survived Soviet Gulag dies

    Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84.

  • Employees of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. walk inside the company's Seoul office after prosecutors seized documents and computer hard drives in South Korea, Thursday, June 20, 2013. South Korea's sole nuclear power plant operator said Thursday that investigators raided its offices, a sign that a probe into faulty nuclear plant cables is widening. (AP Photo/Park Dong-ju, Yonhap) KOREA OUT

    SKorean nuclear operator raided in cable probe

    South Korea's sole nuclear power plant operator said Thursday that investigators raided its offices, a sign that a probe into faulty nuclear plant cables is widening.

  • In this image taken Friday, June 14, 2013, Bangladeshi garment worker Pakhi, 25, who worked on the 5th floor of Rana Plaza, poses for a portrait at Enam Medical College, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Pakhi had both her legs amputated ito free her from the rubble when she was rescued nearly 72 hours after the building collapsed.

    AP PHOTOS: Bangladesh collapse left many amputees

    It was the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry. When the Rana Plaza factory building crashed down in April, 1,129 people were killed. But many others had to sacrifice their limbs to survive. Photo Gallery Available

  • FILE - in this file photo taken on Jan. 16, 2012 Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Qaida's Iraq arm is gaining strength in the restive northern city of Mosul, reviving its fundraising efforts through gangland-style shakedowns, feeding off anti-government anger and increasingly carrying out attacks with impunity. It is a worrying development for Iraq's third-largest city, one of its main gateways to Syria, as voters prepare to cast ballots for local leaders and al-Qaida makes a push to establish itself as a dominant force among the rebels fighting to topple the Syrian regime.

    In northern Iraqi city, al-Qaida gathers strength

    Al-Qaida's Iraq arm is gathering strength in the restive northern city of Mosul, ramping up its fundraising through gangland-style shakedowns and feeding off anti-government anger as it increasingly carries out attacks with impunity, according to residents and officials. Photo Gallery Available

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