Agencies move into new Oklahoma City federal building\nOKLAHOMA CITY -- The new Oklahoma City federal building, with shatterproof windows and other special security features, opened its doors Monday 8 1/2 years after the bombing that killed 168 people.\nThe building will not be fully occupied for weeks, but the U.S. Small Business Administration and its two dozen employees were open for business there Monday. Workers with hard hats were doing finish work in the morning chill while crews moved in copiers and fax machines.\nThe new building is diagonal from the one destroyed by Timothy McVeigh's truck bomb and a block from the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
Afghan leader, U.N. worry about \ndeadly U.S. raid \nKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials warned Monday that an American military attack that mistakenly killed nine children playing in a remote village could make it harder to persuade ordinary people to support Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government.\nThe comment came as the U.S. military launched what it called its largest operation yet to try to put down a growing Taliban insurgency in the most dangerous part of the country, the south and east.\nFour battalions totaling about 2,000 soldiers are taking part in the operation, dubbed Avalanche, across the south and east, military spokesman Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty said Monday.
Supreme Court declines to review age discrimination\nWASHINGTON -- Monday the Supreme Court dodged an opportunity to decide if older people may sue over job layoffs that seem to hit them hardest, a major age discrimination case that came to the court after three tough years of company cutbacks.\nJustices have been looking for the right case to resolve the standard for age discrimination suits.\nA 1967 law bars on-the-job age bias, but the court has never said if the law allows suits on grounds that an employer's action had a "disproportionate impact" on older workers. The law covers about 70 million workers age 40 or older, or nearly half the work force.
Greek court convicts members of killing spree\nATHENS, Greece -- A Greek anti-terrorism court Monday convicted 16 members of the November 17 terrorist cell, including its leader, for their roles in a nearly 30-year killing spree that claimed U.S. and British diplomats, among others.\nThe rulings bring to a close one of the last trials in Europe against militant groups that took shape during the 1970s. The crackdown on November 17 was a relief to authorities planning security for the Aug. 13-29 Olympics.\nFollowing a nine-month trial in a bunker-like prison courtroom, the three judges Monday issued multiple convictions against Alexandros Giotopoulos, 58, as the mastermind of the group that outwitted authorities for more than a generation.
