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The Tsarnaev brothers were armed with at least three firearms and several improvised bombs - including a pressure-cooker explosive - during confrontations with police, an arsenal that will be traced to determine whether someone outside the U.S. helped the Boston bombing suspects obtain and build the weaponry, a law enforcement official said Saturday. Meanwhile, some investigators said the Boston Marathon bombing did not appear to have been orchestrated by Al Qaeda, several U.S. officials said Saturday.

NEW DELHI - Several hundred people protesting the rape and kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl descended on police headquarters Saturday, waving signs, overrunning barriers and calling for the resignation of the capital city's police commissioner. The angry demonstration, which spread to a hospital and the homes of two senior officials, was reminiscent of the outcry seen after a 23-year-old student was brutally raped and killed in December, a crime that shook the nation and led to tougher laws and the creation of special courts for rape cases.

NEW DELHI -- Several hundred people protesting the kidnapping and rape of a 5-year-old girl descended on police headquarters Saturday, waving signs, overrunning barriers and calling for the resignation of the capital city's police commissioner. The angry demonstration, which spread to a hospital and the homes of two senior officials, was reminiscent of the outcry seen after a 23-year-old student was brutally raped in December, a crime that shook the nation and leading to tougher laws and the creation of special courts for rape cases.

WATERTOWN, Mass. - With the Boston area jumpy from the deadly marathon bombings, a shooting that killed a police officer at MIT and a nearby carjacking triggered a massive police response. By early Friday, one suspect was in custody and police had cordoned off an area of the Boston suburb of Watertown, where witnesses reported loud explosions. Police followed the carjacked vehicle to Watertown, according to scanner traffic. It was unclear whether the incidents had anything to do with Monday's marathon bombings, but hours into the siege police issued an alert on the scanner for a white male wearing a gray hoodie, with black curly hair.

WATERTOWN, Mass. - The sounds were the most terrifying - the shots and the booms, the sirens and the whir of helicopter blades, and then, from time to time, the silence. But as a very long Friday wore to a close, it was the sound of cheering and applause that surged through the streets of this small town. "I'm so, so glad it's over," said Lori Toye, who lives with her husband and son in the house next door to the home where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found in a boat covered in a tarp.

For Sean Collier, police work was a calling, an academic pursuit and a dream. On Thursday night, he died on duty - in what police believe was the fourth death in a violent rampage wrought by the Boston bombing suspects. The MIT campus police officer, known for his quick smile and passion for his career, was found shot multiple times in his cruiser late Thursday after a confrontation with Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, police said. Details of the 26-year-old's killing were scarce on Friday, as authorities continued a massive manhunt, but Collier appeared to have been caught in the suspects' escape path, police said.

Feared to be bombs, three suspicious packages in a fast-food restaurant parking were found to be harmless, Fullerton police said Friday. Authorities shut down the area around Chapman Avenue and State College Boulevard after a report of three suspicious packages -- one of them with wires sticking out -- in a Del Taco parking lot, a Fullerton police official said. The Orange County Sheriff's Department bomb squad responded to the scene and determined the packages were harmless, the official said, and people are now being allowed back to homes and businesses in the area.

WATERTOWN, Mass. -- One suspect linked to the Boston Marathon bombings is dead, and the second is on the loose, armed and dangerous, police said early Friday. Officers were going door to door in the Boston suburb of Watertown. They warned residents to stay inside and not open their doors unless an identifiable police officer was on the other side. The suspect still at large has brown, curly hair, police said. In photographs provided by federal authorities, he is wearing a white hat. Officials said the suspect is directly linked to Monday's marathon bombings, which left three dead and more than 170 injured.  "We believe this to be a terrorist," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters early Friday.

ATHENS - After an intense two-day manhunt, Greek police on Friday arrested three strawberry farm foremen suspected of shooting and injuring 28 migrants who were demanding wages they claimed they had not been paid for six months. The violent incident, which shocked Greeks, embarrassed the government and set off an impromptu boycott of fruit products from an agricultural region 160 miles west of the capital, marked the latest -- and most violent -- attack on foreign workers here. It also underscored the stark dangers of racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric gaining ground as the nation struggles through the sixth year of a recession that has left more than 1 million unemployed and salaries reduced by as much as 40%. A police statement said the three foremen were arrested near the village of Manolada, where the shooting took place late Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - President Obama announced the end of “an important chapter” late Friday night in the Boston Marathon bombing with the arrest of a fugitive suspect. But Obama said the search is just beginning to find out why the attack was launched and who may have been involved.  “The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers,” he said, explicitly classifying the alleged perpetrators of the crime as “terrorists.” Whatever “hateful agenda” propelled the attackers, Obama said, it “cannot prevail.” “They have already failed,” he said, because  Americans refused to be terrified and intimidated.