| FBI unlocks iPhone of attacker, ending Apple battle Posted: 28 Mar 2016 04:25 PM PDT  The FBI has unlocked the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, officials said Monday, ending a heated legal standoff with Apple that had pitted US authorities against Silicon Valley. Apple, backed by a broad coalition of technology giants like Google and Facebook, was fiercely opposed to assisting the US government in unlocking the iPhone on grounds it would have wide-reaching implications on digital security and privacy. A key court hearing scheduled earlier this month to hear arguments from both sides in the sensitive case was abruptly cancelled after the FBI said it no longer needed Apple's help and had found an outside party to unlock the phone.
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| Shots fired inside U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, suspect arrested Posted: 28 Mar 2016 11:56 AM PDT  A man with an apparent history of causing disturbances at the U.S. Capitol building was shot Monday afternoon when he drew a gun inside the complex's visitor center, authorities said.
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| Belgium releases sole suspect charged over Brussels attacks Posted: 28 Mar 2016 02:34 PM PDT  Belgium on Monday freed the sole suspect charged over last week's Islamic State attacks in Brussels that left 35 dead, raising fresh questions about the handling of the case by under-fire Belgian authorities. Prosecutors charged Faycal C. on Saturday with "terrorist murder" and were investigating whether he was a third airport attacker who fled after his bomb did not go off, but said there was now a lack of evidence. Police earlier Monday released new CCTV footage of a third suspect in the March 22 Zaventem airport attack, the so-called "man in the hat" seen with the two suicide bombers.
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| Brussels toll rises to 35 as European hunt gathers pace Posted: 27 Mar 2016 05:16 PM PDT  Belgium raised the death toll from the Brussels attacks to 35 and charged three terror suspects Monday as police across Europe stepped up efforts to unravel an Islamic State network linked to the carnage. Police released a new video of a third suspect in the March 22 Zaventem airport attack, the so-called "man in the hat" seen with two other suicide bombers, who escaped after his bomb failed to explode. Mourners were set to hold an Easter Monday church service in memory of the victims of the bombings at the airport and at Maalbeek metro station, Belgium's worst ever terror attack.
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| Pakistan plans new paramilitary crackdown; Easter bombing kills 70 Posted: 28 Mar 2016 11:31 AM PDT  Taliban militants claimed responsibility for an Easter suicide bomb targeting Christians.
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| Fidel Castro to Obama: We don't need your 'presents' Posted: 28 Mar 2016 10:22 AM PDT  HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro responded Monday to President Barack Obama's historic trip to Cuba with a long, bristling letter recounting the history of U.S. aggression against Cuba, writing that "we don't need the empire to give us any presents."
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| US says two more Americans dead in Brussels attacks, total now four Posted: 27 Mar 2016 05:44 PM PDT  The US State Department has confirmed the deaths of two more Americans in the Brussels suicide attacks, bringing the total number to four. "We can confirm the deaths of two additional US citizens in Brussels, and we express our deepest condolences to their loved ones," a State Department official told AFP. An American couple that had been reported missing, Justin and Stephanie Shults, were confirmed dead by an employer and family on Saturday.
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| 8-year-old lost daughter rejoins Syrian family in Cyprus Posted: 28 Mar 2016 03:07 AM PDT  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Jaffar Ismail says his daughter Amal sometimes asks why he and his wife abandoned her in the chaos of their bombed-out neighborhood in the southern Syrian town of Nawa.
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| Belgian police release video footage of third airport suspect Posted: 28 Mar 2016 03:35 AM PDT  Belgian police on Monday released new video footage of the third suspect whose bomb failed to go off at Brussels airport in last week's attack. The footage shows the man wearing a hat and white jacket pushing a trolley with a large bag through the departure hall, next to suicide bombers Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui. "It's a new video which had not previously been released," a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office told AFP.
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