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US drone raids could land CIA officers in court: expertWashington (AFP) March 24, 2010 The US government's refusal to offer a legal rationale for using unmanned drones to kill suspected militants in Pakistan could result in CIA officers facing prosecution for war crimes in foreign courts, a legal expert has told lawmakers. "Prominent voices in the international legal community" were increasingly impatient with Washington's silence on the CIA's bombing raids in Pakistan and elsewhere, Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University, told a congressional panel on Tuesday. L ... read more |
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Minsk (AFP) March 24, 2010China has granted Belarus a billion-dollar loan, while the ex-Soviet country will support Beijing's position on Taiwan, President Alexander Lukashenko said Wednesday. Lukashenko made the comments during a visit by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping. "We will realize projects with an estimated cost of a billion dollars, paid by China," Lukashenko said on Belarus state television without pr ... more  
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Mar 23, 2009 Much of the pressure on U.S. President Barack Obama to get tough with Israel over West Bank settlements is coming from America's top generals who have been warning for months that the United States is in danger until it brokers a Middle East peace treaty. "There are important powerful lobbies in America But no lobby is as important, or as powerful, as the U.S. military," wrote Middle ... more  
Creech AFB NV (SPX) Mar 24, 2010Airmen of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing reached a new flight milestone March 12 when they surpassed 700,000 flight hours in the MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft. The last 200,000 Predator hours were flown in just over 12 months compared to 19 months to fly the previous 250,000 hours and 12.5 years for the first 250,000 hours. Remotely piloted aircraft are one of the most d ... more |
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China state media says Google 'is not god'Beijing (AFP) March 24, 2010 China's state media on Wednesday slammed Google after it effectively shut down its Chinese search engine, saying the US Internet giant was "not god" and accusing it of working with US intelligence. The newspapers said the company had made a huge mistake in the world's largest online market and would earn little sympathy from Chinese users, as it had politicised its dispute with Beijing over web censorship and cyberattacks. Google on Monday stopped filtering search results in China and re-routed ... read more |
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