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(CBS/AP) SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni officials say a car bomb targeting the motorcade of the country’s defense minister has killed at least 13 people, but the minister escaped unharmed. The security officials say the blast hit the minister’s convoy Tuesday as he was traveling through the capital to attend a Cabinet meeting. The say the minister, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, was unhurt but that eight of his security guards were killed. The other five dead were civilian bystanders. No one claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack, but it bore the hallmarks of the al Qaeda and came a day after Yemeni authorities announced the death of al Qaeda in Yemen’s No. 2 leader in an apparent U.S. air strike. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Al Qaeda No. 2 in Yemen killed in airstrikeYemen: Land mines planted by fleeing al Qaeda militants kill 73Yemen: General leading fight against al Qaeda killed by bomber The airstrike killed al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader, Saeed al-Shihiri, along with six others travelling with him in a car on Monday, U.S. and Yemeni officials said, 임실콜걸 a major breakthrough for U.S.-backed efforts to cripple the group in the impoverished Arab nation. Al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by...

(AP) TOKYO — A Japanese Cabinet panel called Friday for the phasing out of nuclear power over the next three decades in a major shift for Japan as it overhauls energy policy following the Fukushima meltdowns. Adopting the proposals would be a break with Japan’s decades-long advocacy of nuclear power. The new energy policy faces opposition from powerful business interests. but phasing out nuclear power is popular with the public. It calls for greater reliance on renewable energy, more conservation and sustainable use of fossil fuels and would see Japan joining Germany in turning its back on nuclear energy. More in Disaster in Japan The new policy requires endorsement by the entire Cabinet. Japanese news reports say the Cabinet has already agreed to the changes. Japan began reviewing its energy policy following last year’s disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was set off by a massive earthquake and tsunami. Before the accident, the resource-poor country relied on nuclear power for one-third of its energy and had planned to raise that to 50 percent by 2030. “Based on facing the reality of this grave accident and by learning lessons from the accident, the government has decided to review the national energy strategy from scratch,” said the policy document. “One of the key pillars of the new strategy is to achieve a society that does not depend on...