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US militant suspects deny terror plot in PakistanSargodha, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 4, 2010 Five Americans facing terror charges in Pakistan denied plotting attacks in the nuclear-armed nation, telling a court Monday they wanted to help Muslims in war-torn Afghanistan, lawyers said. The five young men were arrested in December on suspicion of trying to contact Al-Qaeda-linked groups and are facing charges for allegedly plotting attacks in Pakistan, which could see them jailed for l ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 4, 2010Chinese companies blacklisted in the United States for selling military equipment to Iran have been skirting sanctions due to weak enforcement, researchers said Monday. The Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a private group that opposes proliferation, found that US companies have taken imports from sanctioned Chinese firms without facing consequences or even knowing they had done so. ... more  
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Jan 4, 2009 Jihadist groups in North Africa and the Sahel states are increasingly turning to hostage-taking to fill their war chests with ransoms and for political gain. The latest episode ended in the murder of four Saudi Arabian tourists hunting birds in the desert region of Tillaberi in western Niger last week, when bandits tried to kidnap them. At least one of the Saudis shot at the ass ... more 
Moscow (UPI) Jan 4, 2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned that Washington's designs to build a weapons defense system could strain talks between the United States and Russia on replacing the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Putin warned that Washington's designs threatened to offset the Cold War balance of power, advising instead that Russia develop offensive strike systems to counter the missil ... more |
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Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 4, 2009 Even as Israel's military ponders a possible pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear program, its planners seem to be having second thoughts about the sale of advanced U.S. weapons systems to Arab states that Washington says were intended to bolster an alliance against Tehran. When the George W. Bush administration unveiled a $20 billion arms package spread over 10 years for its Arab ... more 
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 4, 2010Baghdad is weighing how to best react after a US court dropped charges against American guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in 2007, a government spokesman said Monday. Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Iraq's options were limited by the US legal system and a bilateral agreement between Baghdad and Washington. "The US government is studying two possibilities, ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2010Leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has appealed his conviction on subversion charges but is holding out only faint hopes that his 11-year prison term will be overturned, his lawyer said Monday. "Liu Xiaobo directly handed his appeal over to the court on December 29," his lawyer, Shang Baojun, told AFP. "After considering his case he decided to make the appeal effort, but he understands ... more |
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