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Obama irks rights groups on Guantanamo with defense bill
Jan 03, 2013 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama has signed into law a $633 billion dollar defense bill despite warnings from rights campaigners that the measure will tie his hands on...
Blast kills two teens in Algeria's Bouira: reports
Dec 27, 2012 (AFP)
A bomb intended to take out soldiers killed two youths from the same family in the restive Bouira region of central Algeria, newspapers said on Thursday. The tw...
Australian kidnapped in Philippines in 'Abu Sayyaf video'
Dec 26, 2012 (AFP)
A new video emerged on Wednesday of an Australian man kidnapped by suspected Muslim extremists in the Philippines more than a year ago. Warren Rodwell, from Syd...
17 killed as Yemen army, tribesmen clash: tribal sources
Dec 25, 2012 (AFP)
Yemen's army Tuesday launched an offensive against tribesmen suspected of repeatedly sabotaging an oil pipeline in east Yemen, sparking clashes which left 17 pe...
After Benghazi, pleas to better fund US diplomacy
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
Lawmakers divided along party lines as US officials Thursday urged more funding to protect diplomats in hearings into the Benghazi attack marked by the absence ...
US school massacre fuels social media debate on guns
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
The Newtown school massacre has fueled an unprecedented wave of social media discussion on US gun control, with the overwhelming majority favoring new limits on...
Gunmen kill Yemen intelligence colonel
Dec 17, 2012 (AFP)
Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni intelligence officer in an overnight attack that targeted him on his way home in the eastern province of Hadramawt, a security ...
China marks massacre amid tense Japan ties
Dec 13, 2012 (AFP)
China marks the 75th anniversary Thursday of the killing of huge numbers of people in Nanjing by Japanese soldiers, in a year when a territorial row sent ties b...
U.S. escalates African counter-terror war
Dec 12, 2012 (UPI)
The U.S. military is expanding its key counter-terrorism base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, as Washington escalates a secretive shadow war against al-Q...
A new tool for secret agents - and the rest of us
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
A secret agent is racing against time. He knows a bomb is nearby. He rounds a corner, spots a pile of suspicious boxes in the alleyway, and pulls out his cell p...
Detecting tunnels using seismic waves not as simple as it sounds
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
You'd think it would be easy to use seismic waves to find tunnels dug by smugglers of drugs, weapons or people. You'd be wrong. Nedra Bonal of Sandia's geophysi...
US air strike kills Qaeda leader: websites
Dec 08, 2012 (AFP)
A US air strike in Pakistan has killed an Al-Qaeda leader, Khaled Bin Abdel Rahman al-Hussainan, while he was having dinner after a day of fasting, the group an...
Agony endures 75 years after Nanjing Massacre
Dec 07, 2012 (AFP)
Three quarters of a century after Japanese soldiers butchered her family and left her for dead, Xia Shuqin says she relives her terror with every denial that th...
US denies Navy stop in Sudan
Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)
The US military on Thursday denied that any of its ships have visited Sudan, after Khartoum's foreign minister suggested the navy had made a brief port call. "N...
US faces fraught options on Syria's chemical arsenal
Dec 04, 2012 (AFP)
The United States could try to secure Syria's chemical arsenal by sending in special forces and staging bombing raids but any military action would be high-risk...
Pentagon to expand intelligence gathering: report
Dec 01, 2012 (AFP)
The Pentagon, in a major expansion of its intelligence gathering activities, plans to assemble an espionage network rivaling the Central Intelligence Agency in ...
Largest 'Dirty War' trial set to open in Argentina
Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)
A trial involving 800 cases of human rights abuses during Argentina's 1976-1983 military junta is set to open Wednesday, chronicling the use of torture and murd...
Sudan: 'Coup plot' amid growing turmoil
Nov 27, 2012 (UPI)
The recent arrests of Sudan's former intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Salah Abdallah Gosh and others on charges of plotting a coup against President Omar al-Bashir ...
Iran warships returning to Sudan: military
Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)
Iranian warships will return to Sudan on Friday, the armed forces said, one month after a similar port call followed Khartoum's accusation that Israel bombed a ...
Sudan 'plot' linked to hardcore Islamists: analysts
Nov 25, 2012 (AFP)
An alleged plot revealed last week to sabotage Sudan's security is linked to hardcore Islamist military officers and highlights turmoil within the regime of Pre...
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