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Kabul (dpa) - A suicide car bomber targeted a foreign military convoy Thursday in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, killing more than 20 civilians and one US soldier, officials said.
The death toll in the blast - which came a day after a tanker truck bombing in southern Afghanistan killed six people - had risen throughout...
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Military police with the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon arrested two terrorist suspects in the northern Lebanese refugee camp of Beddawi following a clash inside the chantytown, Palestinian sources said Friday.
According to the sources the two suspects were arrested after a major clash and were identified as Nader...
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The world's major powers have agreed on a resolution over Iran's nuclear programme that will be presented to the UN Security Council on Friday.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told reporters the resolution would "reaffirm" existing sanctions that have been placed on Iran over its refusal to comply with Security...
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A suicide bomber killed two Afghan intelligence agents and three civilians in eastern Afghanistan, while more than 15 Taliban militants were killed by Afghan police and a NATO airstrike in the southern region, official said Friday.
The bomber detonated his explosive-packed vest in the main market in Zazi Maidan district of...
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Russia's foreign minister added his voice to the controversy over South Ossetia's status hopes on Thursday. Georgia's separatist province, he said, has no intention of joining Russia, news agencies reported.
Sergei Lavrov interrupted a press conference in Poland, where he was discussing US missile defence plans, to clarify Moscow's...
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The new United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, called Monday for unity in the fight against human rights abuses.
A united front was needed towards human rights, Pillay said at the opening of a meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Pillay, a South African judge who took over as UN Commissioner from...
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Four Russian navy ships will participate in joint exercises with Venezuela in the Caribbean this year, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
The Russian statement came after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the arrival of Russian ships on national television Sunday, saying they would dock in the South American...
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Monday's emergency EU summit meeting in Brussels on how to respond to Russia's recognition of the Georgian breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia could be instrumental in confirming the European Union as a major international peacemaker.
With the United States taking a diplomatic back seat on the crisis and the swift...
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Simmering anger with the Indian government and its security forces over a land row in the Kashmir Valley has sparked a larger movement that has seen thousands of Kashmiri Muslims take to the streets to demand "azadi," or freedom, in non-violent protests over the past two weeks.
Protestor Shakeel Ahmed, a university student,...
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No one expected US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas, which ended Tuesday, to result in a breakthrough in the peace process, so no one was disappointed.
A breakthrough is always possible in the peace negotiations, which resumed around the turn of the year, after a seven-year...
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Five people, including an army officer, were killed Wednesday in India's Jammu and Kashmir state by suspected Islamic militants who had infiltrated across the border from Pakistan, police said.
Security forces had killed one of the militants who were holed up in a house in a residential area on the outskirts of Jammu city, the...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday recognized the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
"Russia calls on other nations to recognize their independence. It is not an easy choice, but it is the only way to protect the lives of civilians," Medvedev said in a televized statement after...
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A United Nations investigative team has found that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in a US-led coalition air raid in western Afghanistan last week, the top UN envoy in the country said Tuesday.
The team "found convincing evidence, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses and others that some 90 civilians were...
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Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.
Police earlier arrested three prominent separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, to foil a major...
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The scramble for the White House was dead even between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, according to two separate polls released late Sunday, the eve of the opening of the Democratic nominating convention.
The Gallup Poll showed each candidate with 45 per cent support from registered voters, while a CNN/Opinion...
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China has deported all 10 of the pro-Tibet activists it arrested for protesting or helping to organize protests during the Beijing Olympics, releasing them before the end of their 10-day detention following pressure from the US embassy in Beijing, a US-based Tibet rights group said Monday.
"All 10 have been deported. They were...
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Russian combat forces began a slow withdrawal from Georgia on Friday but were still operating road checkpoints deep in the country despite a pledge to leave by the end of the day.
The Russian general staff said that troops were "in the final stage of pulling back," but they would continue to hold buffer zones and maintain...
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Twelve people died from their injuries Friday, the day after twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's largest arms and ammunition factory, hospital authorities said, as investigators interrogated at least a dozen suspects.
The latest casualties raised the death toll to 78 in the two synchronised attacks at the gates of the Pakistan...
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Russia's army on Wednesday continued its occupation of two enclaves in Georgia as Kremlin officials claimed they would accelerate what they said was an already in-progress withdrawal.
President Dmitry Medvedev promised his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that all but a 500-strong contingent of peace keepers would leave Georgian...
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Around 100 protesters against China's human- rights record demonstrated outside the headquarters of the European Union on Friday as the Olympic Games opened in Beijing.
"The Olympic flag symbolizes peace, harmony and the solidarity of nations. The Beijing Games have become a nightmare for the millions of people in China who love...
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The head of NATO is "seriously concerned" by the outbreak of fighting in Georgia and calls on all sides to return to the negotiating table, a statement released in Brussels said Friday.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is "seriously concerned about the events that are taking place in the Georgian region of...
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Wednesday's military coup in the north-western African nation of Mauritania divided opinions Thursday, with demonstrations staged both for and against ousted president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
The bigger rally supported the coup, with thousands of people calling on the new ruling military junta to "save" the country's...
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 An Antigua police chief said today that the shooting of the Welsh couple may be related to another killing that took place less than two months ago.The newlyweds, Catherine and Benjamin Mullany, both from south Wales, were shot at the Cocos hotel on Sunday morning. Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service,...
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Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh
clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's
troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round
missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing
seven members of the same family, including five children. The house
was completely...
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 Tropical Storm Dolly formed in the Caribbean is approaching Yucatan Peninsula and maybe it will head toward southern Texas. Local emergency management officials are monitoring it but aren’t excessively alarmed, saying the tropical storm doesn’t pose a threat yet to the upper Texas Gulf Coast. The emergency management coordinator for the...
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and Afghan troops have left an isolated village in eastern Afghanistan where militants murdered nine U.S. soldiers
and injured a dozen more on Sunday, officials said on Wednesday.
According to BBC, a statement informed that the base had
been provisional and that customary patrols in the region would be upheld.
However, local...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday
efforts to end the ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have been
disappointing as the warring parties have chosen confrontation rather
than dialogue. 'I am deeply disappointed by the lack of
progress that has been made towards resolving the Darfur conflict,' Ban
told the UN...
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 Police officers in China have taken into custody a young man who is suspected of stabbing to death a Canadian model in Shanghai earlier this week. They identified him from security videos fixed outside the edifice. According to China's official Xinhua news agency, the suspect, named Chen Jun, was detained Friday in Anhui province,...
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Hospitals across Nepal shut
down Thursday after doctors expanded their strike to cover the entire
nation to protest against assaults and threats against them.
The Nepal Medical Association, a doctors' umbrella organization, said
hundreds of hospitals as well as thousands of private clinics and
nursing homes had heeded its calls to...
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Thai Foreign Minister Noppodon Pattama
announced his resignation Thursday after being accused of violating the
constitution for signing a communique last month with Cambodia to back
the listing of an ancient Hindu temple as a World Heritage Site. 'To show responsibility and spirit I resign,' Noppodon told a press conference. ...
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 The governor of Istanbul
announced on Wednesday that three policemen and three gunmen had been killed
in a shootout near the United States Consulate in the Turkish city.
The identity of the attackers remains unknown, but they are
said to have commenced the gunfire at police standing outside the main entrance
at about 11.00 a.m....
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At least two people were killed and 11 injured
Wednesday by a bomb that hit a police checkpoint in Fallujah, the once
hotbed of Sunni insurgency in west Iraq, according to police.
The bomb struck a police checkpoint in the centre of Fallujah, 45
kilometres west of Baghdad, police sources told the Voices of Iraq news
agency. ...
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At least 15 people were killed Sunday,
including two children, and 22 injured, one of them a Kurdish
politician, in separate attacks in Iraq, security sources said.
In north-east Baghdad, a car bomb rocked the Shiite Shaab district, killing six people and injuring 14, police said.
The explosion, in front of the mortuary of the...
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Two French students were found
stabbed to death in a burned-out apartment situated in London. They were the victims of a
"frenzied, brutal, horrific attack," authorities said.
The victims were identified as
Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both aged 23. Mick Duthie, a police officer
from London's
Metropolitan...
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A woman suffering from a psychiatric disease died on the
floor, inside Kings County Hospital
Center in Brooklyn,
on June 19. A video tape that recorded the tragic event was handed over to the
attorneys of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The death of Esman Green, 49, was graphically revealed
yesterday when the...
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Pakistani paramilitary troops
threatened the city of Peshawar
and a close tribal area known as the Khyber Agency. The operation started
Friday, when hundreds of troops, soldiers and police crowded the capital of North-West
Frontier Province.
A day later, 400 supplementary
paramilitary troops came in Bara, the most important city...
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 The number of victims in north Lebanon has reached eight, after
another person has been killed in the brutal sectarian battles, according to
security sources.
The clashes erupted on Sunday in the port city of Tripoli and, up to this
moment, over 50 people were injured and other 8 were killed. The conflict in
Bab al-Tebbaneh and...
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the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include economist Adam Smith in 1723; Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John Maynard...
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 A suicide car bomb outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad killed eight people and wounded many others on Monday and al-Qaida claimed responsibility and threatened more attacks.A statement of al-Qaida, which was posted on a Web site frequently used by Islamic militants, said Monday’s attack was carried out in order...
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 Australian troops completed combat operations in Iraq, ending a five-year commitment
to the war, CNN reports. The Australian Army lowered its flag at Camp Terendak
in the southern Iraqi city of Talil
on Monday. The 550 forces stationed at the camp will return home in the coming
weeks and another 60 combat forces who worked throughout...
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Greenland will host this week a
meeting where 5 powerful nations will discuss the resources offered by the Arctic Ocean and how these resources are to be split up
between them.
The countries to take part at
this conference are Canada, Norway, Denmark,
Russia and the United States.
The generating factor that gave
birth to...
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 Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier, who left
classified papers in an insecure area, has resigned, according to a statement
made Monday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Harper did not reveal what the documents were about or where they were left. But
a government source disclosed last night that they were NATO summit...
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Swedish authorities said Thursday that no explosives were
found at a nuclear reactor at the Oskarshamn nuclear
plant, which was suspected of being targeted for sabotage, the
Associated Press reports.
Late Wednesday, reactor O1 was
stopped as a security precaution, after two maintenance workers were arrested
on suspicion of...
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On Friday, Russia claimed to have captured a Georgian spy
of Russian citizenship, whose main goal was to destabilize the region in Southern Russia. This represents the proof that the
Georgian secret services are involved in “disruptive terrorist activities” in North Caucasus, as Federal Security Service (FSB)
informed.
It is...
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the 136th day of 2008 with 230 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include author L. Frank Baum ("The Wizard of Oz") in 1856; French chemist Pierre Curie in 1859; author...
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, the 135th day of 2008 with 231 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include English portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1727; Scottish reformer Robert Owen in 1771; opera...
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the 132nd day of 2008 with 234 to follow. This is Mother's Day. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, in 1854;...
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 Mexico’s
acting federal police chief Edgar Millan Gomez was shot dead early Thursday
outside his home, the Associated Press reports. He was shot ten times after
opening his door to his Mexico City
apartment complex, where gunmen were waiting for him before dawn, the Public
Safety Department declared. Millan died hours later at a...
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 A man hoping a horse could bring some joy on the face of his
ill father brought one to the Wilcox Memorial
Hospital from Hawaii, where his father was being treated,
to cheer him up.
He disregarded one of the hospital’s rules and took the
horse up in a lift and he reached the third floor. "We just hope people
understand...
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 It appears that the United
States and Russia
did not reach an agreement towards Washington’s
plans of deploying a missile defense shield in the east of Europe,
Reuters reports.
“The problem remains and consists of the fact that the
Americans are not giving up their plans to deploy a missile defense system in
eastern...
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San Francisco - Social networking site Facebook has won an 873-million-dollar damages award against a spammer who inundated users of the site with millions of unwanted messages, the company said Monday.
In a blog posting, the company's director of security Max Kelly said the award by the US District Court in San Jose was the largest...
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 Cisco Systems announced today that it has significantly increased the performance and capabilities of its cutting-edge routing platform, ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Router. From now on, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 20 Gbps Embedded Services Processor (ESP) will double the service processing rate and deliver software enhancements...
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 On June 9, San Francisco will host the 2008 edition of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. The event is stirring up quite a lot of interest as several new products are expected to be launched on this very special occasion.The most anticipated device is probably the new 3G version of the iPhone. Apple said it would produce at least...
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 Text messaging has become more and more popular in the last few years. It is estimated that more than 48 billion messages are sent monthly. Baring this in mind, the fact that the government has found a way to employ this widely used service into a security plan isn’t as surprising anymore.On Wednesday, federal regulators approved a plan...
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 The US Cyber Command (AFCYBER) military unit, which began
preparations for entering the cyberspace fight in September 2007, is getting
ready to start its activity. The project should be fully operational by autumn
and it will be led by U.S. Eighth Air Force Lieutenant general Robert J. Elder
Jr., who is the commander of the Eighth...
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 Bush
administration’s recent initiative regarding a cyber security plan has started
to raise concerns among lawmakers, as new details about the largely classified
plan have emerged recently. House lawmakers raised concerns yesterday related
to the connection between the new cyber security program and its privacy
implications. Bush...
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 On Monday, Iran opened its
first major space center and launched a research rocket to commemorate the
event. And these were just the latest stages in the space program this country
has been preparing for a long time despite the international community’s fear
that Iran
is in fact developing military ballistic missiles.
Iranian...
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 President
George W. Bush signed earlier this month a directive that allows the National
Security Agency (or NSA) and other intelligence agencies to snoop on the
states’ federal agencies. Practically, the National Security Agency was given
the right to access and monitor the federal agencies’ Internet traffic.
According to analysts,...
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 Spy satellites might be harmful!
Especially if they fall out of nowhere directly on your house or car… A smart
spy satellite might smash your cat in just a second, or even worse, it could
even kill you! Well, this in fact a sci-fi scenario; satellite do fall on
Earth, but we usually don’t realize it, as they disintegrate while...
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 The new Cold War is likely to be
in fact a cyber battle, as the United States and its everlasting rivals, China
and Russia, seem to find themselves in the middle of a silent, though tough,
“virtual” war. According to intelligence experts, the United States is continually under attack, as
cyber criminals originating from China
and...
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 NASA’s release of the National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS) study on Monday dragged sharp criticism from the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), which is the industry trade organization that represents the leading US airlines that transport more than 90 percent of the US airline passenger and cargo traffic.The...
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 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the launch of a pilot program that would notify people that live in Lower Manhattan and the Rockaways with emails ,text messages or phone calls in case of emergency.The program, named Notify NYC, will be provided by Send Word Now, leader in on-demand alerting and response services, and will...
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 According to a research report
that has been recently released by Microsoft Corp. at the RSA Security
conference from London,
the security threat represented by the malware problem has been increasing over
the current year. All kind of malicious codes that install files such as
password stealers, Trojan horses, key loggers and other...
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 HP Co. has presented yesterday a
new powerful security technology that is to ensure that our printed documents
will get to the right persons, also without being attacked on the way by of
kind of malware, spyware and so on. Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Secure Print
Advantage represents nothing else than a set of software and...
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 A student from the Western Oregon University
has probably become his colleagues’ hero, after he has (accidentally)
discovered a breach in the university’s system and has then escaped from being expelled.
The student has discovered, by mistake – as it has then appeared – a file that
contained personal data on the university’s publicly...
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 This could be just a rumor, but
on the other hand the idea is quite coherent. Microsoft has been reported by a
web site that it will embed in its Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) also some
tough features borrowed from Windows Vista. Although this could be just a
thought, the idea could be coherent, as this way the users will be able...
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 Starting with Thursday, the 13th
of September, and till Sunday, the 16th of September, the worldwide
famous Wired Magazine’s annual Wired NextFest exhibition will be showcasing the
new brilliant ideas and technologies, as well as their creators, that will someday
change our world in a positive way, hopefully. Through this...
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 Two important car makers,
Chrysler LLC and Honda Motor Co., have announced on Friday their recalling for
some quite popular vehicles because of different problems that must be by all
means repaired.
So Chrysler LLC has announced on
Friday it will recall more than 300,000 sport utility vehicles that include
four of the car...
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 Intel Corp. has announced on Monday it is to reinforce the
desktop PCs’ security thanks to the next generation Intel vPro processor
technology. The platform, which targets at customers from the business field,
has been said to feature new innovations that will bring better protection
against all kind of threats, such as viruses,...
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 The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing a new kind of non-lethal weapon, which is a flashlight designed to cause temporary blindness, nausea and disorientation. The flashlight emits pulses of light from an array of ultrabright light emitting diodes (LEDs).The flashes temporarily blind a person, as is the...
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 The US Army has ordered its active soldiers serving overseas to cut the chatter. No, really, it’s an order that should be effective starting Monday, May 14, in all areas where the US has deployed soldiers (Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.).US soldiers will not be able to access sites like YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular social-networking...
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 The Transportation Security Agency, responsible for monitoring among other people’s safety while embarking on a plane, has reported that a hard drive containing data about approximately 100,000 people is untraceable.The missing data referred to name, social security number, date of birth, payroll information, financial allotments, and...
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu Friday evening for a two-day visit.
During his stay in Nepal, Ban is scheduled to meet Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav and other politicians.
Talks with Nepalese leaders...
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Around half of the Australian government's 21-billion-Australian-dollar (14.7-billion-US-dollar) surplus will be spent in trying to ward off a recession, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday.
To breathe life back into consumer spending habits, around a quarter of the country's adults will receive an early financial Christmas...
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Australian police said Friday that a 7-year-old boy who went on a 35-minute killing spree in a reptile park was too young to face criminal charges.
The schoolboy on Wednesday broke into the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, cracked open cages and fed 10 live exhibits to the park's resident crocodile. He was also seen on security...
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An Afghan district governor along with his two bodyguards were killed mistakenly by NATO-led Australian troops in southern Afghanistan while five police officers and three Taliban militants were killed in a clash and a roadside bombing, officials said Thursday.
Rozi Khan Barekzai, governor of the Chora district in Uruzgan province,...
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An Australian cleric and five of his followers Monday were found guilty of forming a terrorist cell and face possible life terms when sentence is passed.
Four of the group of 12 Melbourne Muslims were declared innocent and two have yet to receive a verdict on the terrorism-related charges against them.
Algerian-born Abdul Nacer...
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Australia announced Wednesday it will provide 50 billion rupiah (5.36 million dollars) to help improve food security and reduce malnutrition among children in eastern Indonesia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said.
The contribution was announced by Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, while visiting a clinic...
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