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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 양구출장만남 Yemeni officials said, 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...

(CBS/AP) As the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 approaches, television viewers who want to immerse themselves in memories of the day will have a staggering number of choices, and on the day itself, broadcast and cable news networks will all have their top talent on hand for special coverage. Complete coverage: 9/11 anniversaryPictures: Pentagon memorialPictures: Visiting ground zero and lower Manhattan There will be dozens of specials covering the events from every conceivable angle. Many are from networks that either didn’t exist back in 2001, didn’t have the capacity to cover the tragedy live or weren’t aggressively making as much original programming. Chances are that the 10th will end up being the biggest anniversary in terms of media attention: 9/11 is still relatively fresh in the minds of those who experienced it, yet time has also offered more perspective. “It was a transformative event,” said Mark Burstein, executive producer of special events coverage for ABC News. “This was an event that everyone who was over the age of 10 remembers where they were on this day. It changed millions of lives. I’m not surprised that 10 years later the world will stop and look back and remember.” Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos will anchor ABC’s special the morning of Sept. 11, with coverage of the memorial mixed in with other reports. Brian Williams will anchor...

(CBS) There  was  a lot of talk of sickness on the New York red carpet  Wednesday night as  Academy Award winner Matt Damon was busy promoting his latest film, “Contagion,” an ensemble “Outbreak”-style thriller that  also stars Oscar-winners Marion Cotillard and Kate...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday killed at least 20 people, including two reporters, and wounded 70, Afghan officials said. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said a suicide bomber struck at the center and then a car bomb went off nearby. Sediqullah Tawhidi, a senior member of the Afghan journalists federation, said a reporter and a cameraman working for Tolo TV were among those killed, and that another local TV reporter was wounded. No one immediately claimed the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the country’s affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, which has carried out a wave of deadly bombings against minority Shiites. The Sunni extremists of ISIS view Shiites as apostates deserving of death. ISIS last struck in the area, Dasht-e-Barchi, 메이저사이트 in December, with three back-to-back explosions that left more than 40 people dead. More in Afghanistan: The way forward Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police chief, said at least seven police were among those wounded in the car bomb explosion. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a roadside bomb killed a district police chief and another policeman in the northern Badghis province, according to Jamshid Shahabi, spokesman for the provincial governor. No one claimed the attack, but Shahabi said it was likely carried out by the Taliban, who are active...