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Deadly blast destroys Baghdad forensics HQBaghdad (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 A suicide attacker blew up his car on Tuesday while racing it at Iraq's forensics headquarters in Baghdad, killing 18 people, wounding 80 others and destroying the building, officials said. The attack marked another devastating breach of security a day after three huge minibus bombs targeting hotels killed dozens in Iraq's capital, as violence spirals less than six weeks from the country's general election. An interior ministry official, giving the toll - five policemen and 13 civilians - sai ... read more |
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US police arrest heavily armed man with military mapNew York (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 Authorities in the US state of New Jersey announced the arrest of a heavily armed man who stockpiled military-grade weapons in a motel room and possessed the map of a US military facility. The man was wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying a concealed assault rifle, as well as large quantities of ammunition, when he was arrested following a chase in Branchburg, New Jersey, the prosecutor's office said. However, the incident was not believed to be terrorism-related, the Federal Bureau of Invest ... read more |
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London (AFP) Jan 26, 2010The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was illegal, a former top British government lawyer told a public inquiry into the war Tuesday, three days before the appearance of ex-prime minister Tony Blair. "I considered that the use of force against Iraq in March 2003 was contrary to international law," Michael Wood, chief legal advisor to the Foreign Office between 1999 and 2006, told the Chilcot inquiry ... more  
Chora, Afghanistan (AFP) Jan 26, 2010Keeping the convoy "left of the boom" is the single-minded focus of Sergeant 1st Class Tom as the Dutch patrol snakes through the desolate mountains of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. The sergeant and his team of six engineers are the last line of defence against the roadside bombs that have become the biggest killers of coalition troops in the Afghan war. It takes four hours to cover le ... more  
Seoul (AFP) Jan 26, 2010North Korea has announced a shipping exclusion zone off part of its west coast, a South Korean military official said Tuesday, a move which in the past has sometimes preceded missile test-launches. The official confirmed to AFP that the North had banned shipping from an area in the Yellow Sea but gave no details. Yonhap news agency said Seoul was watching to see if there were any preparation ... more |
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Israel moves closer to hook-up with NATOTel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 26, 2009 Israel's armed forces are adopting NATO's system of identifying and classifying equipment among its member nations, underlining Israel's buildup of ties with the Atlantic alliance. For years, Israel has kept NATO at arm's length to preserve the Jewish state's strategic independence while it confronts its Middle Eastern adversaries. The adoption of the NATO Codification System may seem a modest move, but it's an important institutional step toward strengthening links with the Western alli ... read more |
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