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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama's administration has broadened the number of radical groups targeted by the CIA inside Pakistan by attacking a militant network seeking to overthrow the Pakistani government, The New York Times reported Saturday. The newspaper said recent missile strikes on training camps run by Baitullah Mehsud represent a broadening of the US military campaign inside Pakistan, which has been carried out largely by drone aircraft. Under fromer president George W. Bush, the United States frequently attacked militants from Al-Qaeda and the Taliban but stopped short of targeting Mehsud and his followers. Mehsud was identified early...

Just hours after the United Nations voted on a plan to stop the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has begun broadening its ground offensive in southern Lebanon. Israeli Government spokesman Avi Pazner says the ground operation is "open-ended". "This operation is aimed at preventing Hezbollah from firing rockets into northern Israel and is not limited in time," Mr Pazner said. Several people have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon and Tyre. Four times during the night Israel struck at the main southern city of Sidon, destroying a power plant. Israel jets also...

They invoke the names of Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez, but the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have marched nationwide are not following one charismatic leader. Instead, they're loosely guided by Hispanic advocacy groups, churches and labor unions - organizations that have helped transform what began as isolated campaigns in major cities into a broad movement with a coordinated strategy. "It's a shared leadership among people who we don't even always know," said Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican-American Political Association, a central organizer of rallies in Southern California. The young movement is still morphing, allowing both...