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A London jury has convicted a former airline employee linked to U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki of plotting to blow up an airliner.

A 22-year-old Chicago man is scheduled to be back in federal court Wednesday on terrorism charges. Sami Samir Hassoun was arrested in September for plotting to blow up a crowded Wrigleyville corner.It became immediately clear he had help.

A parole hearing did not go well for a Chicagoan that Puerto Rican nationalists call a patriot. The prisoner, Oscar López Rivera, has served more than 29 years on a conviction of seditious conspiracy.

A former Chicagoan that some Puerto Ricans call a political prisoner will make his case to walk free. A U.S.

The New Year's Day bombing at a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt killed 21 people.The bombing has set off days of protests by Egypt’s Christian community.

"Denmark's intelligence service on Wednesday arrested four people suspected of planning an 'imminent'' terror attack against a newspaper that printed the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons," the Associated Press writes.The BBC says "a pistol fitted with a silencer was found on the group held in

Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki’s anti-American preachings have been linked to numerous terrorism plots against the United States. Believed to be hiding in Yemen, Awlaki is often cited as the spiritual leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which claimed responsibility for the recent