The White House has decided against releasing photos of Usama bin Laden's corpse.

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Representative Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley told Attorney General Eric Holder that they are not giving up with regards to getting answers abotu Project Gunrunner.
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A police officer has been killed and another wounded in a grenade attack following a political rally by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in northwestern Turkey.

A police car accompanying a bus carrying officials from Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party came under attack by unknown gunmen Wednesday in the city of Kastamonu. The attackers threw hand grenades at the vehicle and sprayed it with bullets, causing it to catch fire.

Russian security forces say they have killed a top al-Qaida emissary in Chechnya.

Russian officials said Wednesday Doger Sevdet, who was also known as Abdulla the Kurd, directly participated in planning and organizing major sabotage and terrorist attacks targeting members of the public and security forces in the North Caucasus.

Authorities say Sevdet and a fellow militant from Dagestan were killed in a special operation by Russian security forces. Sevdet was reportedly carrying a Turkish passport with visas for Georgia, Azerbaijan and Pakistan.

The governor of Venezuela's Miranda state says he plans to run for the presidency next year, challenging President Hugo Chavez.

Governor Henrique Capriles made the announcement Tuesday, saying he wants to be "president of all Venezuelans." Capriles also said he would seek the endorsement of a divided opposition to challenge President Chavez, who has been in office since 1999 and is seeking a new six-year term.

An opposition primary is scheduled for February 2012, with the presidential election set for later in the year.

At least 12 people were killed after a northern Sudanese army convoy entered the contested north-south border region of Abyei, sparking clashes with southern police.

Abyei's top administrator, Deng Arop Kuol, says the fighting broke out Sunday when a Sudanese army convoy entered Abyei despite efforts by southern police to stop them.

Kuol said a dozen people were killed including a policeman.

In comments to Reuters news agency, a northern minister blamed the clashes on police, saying that troops were just joining an internationally recognized north-south force in the area.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force killed numerous insurgents and detained one suspected insurgent while conducting a clearing operation in Chaparhar district, Nangarhar province, yesterday.

The operation was conducted to search for a Taliban leader known weapons facilitation and financing attacks. The leader has close associations with the Taliban leader who commands and controls insurgent operations in Nangarhar.

Debate is raging in the Obama Administration over whether or not to release a photo of the body of Usama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, who was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs on 1 May.