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Chemical watchdog to use Nobel Prize money for new award
Dec 09, 2013 (AFP)
The world's chemical watchdog said Monday it will use the money it gets from this year's Nobel Peace Prize to set up its own award. "Of course, we are not going...
Charity accuses Sri Lankan authorities of coverup
Dec 04, 2013 (UPI)
A report by French aid group Action Contra la Faim says Sri Lankan security forces killed 17 of its aid workers in 2006 and the charity is demanding an internat...
Africa emerges as new battleground for jihadists
Dec 03, 2013 (UPI)
Islamist militants of Nigeria's Boko Haram movement, linked to al-Qaida's North African branch, this week attacked a Nigerian air force base in the insurgency-w...
Charity accuses Sri Lanka over 'heinous' aid workers massacre
Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)
France's Action Against Hunger (ACF) on Tuesday accused Sri Lankan security forces of killing 17 aid workers in cold blood and then organising a cover-up of wha...
Belarus contractor shot dead in Yemen capital
Nov 26, 2013 (AFP)
Two gunmen on a motorbike killed a Belarussian defence contractor and wounded another as they left a hotel in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, the former Soviet r...
Beirut bombings: Will Hezbollah avenge attack on Iranian embassy?
Nov 19, 2013 (UPI)
The suicide bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Tuesday, in which 23 people were killed, suggested a dangerously sharp escalation in the Sunni-Shiite confr...
Portable radar detector said to reveal hidden weapons on people
Nov 14, 2013 (UPI)
British engineers say a prototype portable radar scanner that can detect weapons concealed on people in public spaces is ready for real-world testing. Researche...
Yemen jails crew over arms shipment 'from Iran'
Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)
A Yemeni court on Tuesday sentenced crew members of a vessel intercepted with an arms shipment allegedly from Iran to between three and 10 years in prison. The ...
London's Boris Johnson: Terror suspect's flight shows laws lacking
Nov 07, 2013 (UPI)
The disappearance of a terror suspect this week is proof Britain's counter-terrorism laws aren't working, London Mayor Boris Johnson says. Police appealed to th...
Argentina releases 'blacklists' compiled by dictatorship
Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)
Argentina on Thursday released blacklists, including writer Julio Cortazar and folk singer Mercedes Sosa, found among a trove of newly discovered documents from...
Outgoing Nigeria negotiator says Islamists want talks
Nov 05, 2013 (AFP)
The head of a panel tasked with seeking an amnesty deal with Boko Haram said Tuesday that key members of the Nigerian extremist group wanted peace talks but the...
Documents from Argentina's dictatorship found in military basement
Nov 05, 2013 (AFP)
A trove of documents dating to the start of Argentina's last dictatorship shows the names of activists who went missing and citizens blacklisted under the regim...
Chile judge refuses to extradite 10 convicted in France
Nov 04, 2013 (AFP)
A Chilean judge refused to extradite ten Chileans convicted in absentia in France for the torture and disappearance of four French nationals during the dictator...
Iraq PM urges global fight on Al-Qaeda
Oct 31, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Thursday pleaded for a major global effort to combat the "virus" of Al-Qaeda and terror networks, likening the fight to a th...
Outside View: The wrong war again
Oct 30, 2013 (UPI)
Last week, Washington roiled in revelations about the war on terror with reports of drone strikes in Pakistan secretly approved by that government; National Sec...
Jihadists see Sinai as 'next frontier' in war against U.S., Israel
Oct 30, 2013 (UPI)
The jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula appears to be escalating as senior figures linked to al-Qaida are reported to be taking command of militant opera...
NATO, Russia hail joint test to detect bombers in crowds
Oct 30, 2013 (AFP)
Once implacable Cold War foes, NATO and Russia Wednesday claimed a major breakthrough in the fight against a shared enemy -- terrorist bombers targeting big com...
Tunisia launches 'huge' operation to hunt jihadists
Oct 29, 2013 (AFP)
Tunisia's army launched a "huge" operation to track down jihadists in the central Sidi Bouzid region Tuesday, the defence ministry said, after militants killed ...
Facebook pulls beheading video amid furor
Oct 23, 2013 (AFP)
Facebook yanked a beheading video from the social network late Tuesday following outrage over its lifting of a ban on the gory imagery. The flip flop came as Fa...
Kenya army took goods in mall siege for 'safekeeping'
Oct 22, 2013 (AFP)
Kenyan troops accused of ransacking Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall during last month's massacre by Islamist gunmen took goods only "to ensure their safety", t...
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