PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Jurors began deliberating on Wednesday in the trial of a Somali-born man accused of trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting event in Oregon, after prosecutors and defense lawyers sparred during closing arguments over his intent. Full story
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Lawyers for the accused would-be bomber of an Oregon Christmas tree-lighting event sought on Wednesday to cast their Somali-born client as an emotionally fragile teenager prone to manipulation by undercover agents who coached him in planning an act of mass murder. Full story
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A Somali-born man charged in a Christmas-season bomb plot in Oregon was eager to "martyr" himself in a suicide mission, but FBI agents posing as al Qaeda operatives talked him into a plan to set off explosives remotely instead, one of them testified on Tuesday. Full story
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Testimony in the trial of a Somali-born man charged with trying to bomb a Christmas tree event in Oregon opened on Monday with an FBI agent saying the accused first aroused concerns by discussing martyrdom in email exchanges with Islamist militants. Full story
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - An attorney for a Somali-born man charged with trying to blow up a crowd of people at a Christmas tree-lighting event in Oregon told a court on Friday his client was a hard-partying college student manipulated by FBI agents posing as Islamist militants. Full story
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office on Sunday, calling for an end to terrorism and piracy in a nation mired in conflict for more than two decades. Full story
Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud smiles upon arrival at a meeting with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn at the National Palace in capital Addis Ababa November 28, 2012. It is President Mohamud's first official state outing since taking office in September. REUTERS
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attend a joint news conference in Mogadishu November 14, 2012. REUTERS/Omar Faruk
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi pose for photographs before addressing a joint news conference in Mogadishu November 14, 2012. REUTERS/Omar Faruk
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud meets his newly appointed Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid in Somalia's capital Mogadishu October 6, 2012. Somali President Mohamud has named Saaid as the country's new prime minister, diplomats and a government source said, the first major decision
