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  Regional al-Qaeda groups pose significant dangers: Obama

  World | August 10, 2013 9:37 IST

  Washington, Aug 10: The U.S. President Barack Obama said that the core of al-Qaeda leadership has been decimated and lacks operational capabilities to strike against America like 9/11 but its affiliates have metastasised into regional

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  US to re-open 18 diplomatic missions

  World | August 10, 2013 7:13 IST

  Washington, Aug 10: The U.S. State Department says 18 of the 19 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa that have been closed due to a terrorist threat will reopen on Sunday

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  Today in History: U.S. embassies in East Africa bombed (Watch pics)

  World | August 07, 2013 9:18 IST

  New Delhi: On August 7, 1998--the eighth anniversary of the deployment of U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia--two U.S. embassies in East Africa were bombed almost simultaneously by Al Qaeda. A massive truck bomb exploded outside