Second American woman charged

Federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges against a second American woman in the so-called JihadJane case, accusing the pair of plotting online to attend a terrorist training camp. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was arrested last month after returning to the United States. Paulin-Ramirez, originally from Colorado, and six others had been detained in Ireland as authorities investigated an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who offended many Muslims. Those suspects were linked to Colleen LaRose, a 46-year-old American, so-called JihadJane who was arrested last fall.

A freelance Japanese journalist has gone missing in Afghanistan, possibly as the result of a kidnapping. An acquaintance of Kosuke Tsuneoka, 40, informed the Japanese government that Tsuneoka was not responding to his usual contact methods, government officials said.