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Army opens criminal probe into Afghan war files leakWashington (AFP) July 27, 2010 The US Army opened a criminal probe Tuesday into the leak of some 90,000 classified military files on the Afghan war, the Pentagon said, naming a jailed soldier as a "person of interest." Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old private charged in an earlier leak to WikiLeaks, was under renewed scrutiny in the latest release to the same whistleblowers' website, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said. "He is obviously a person of interest with regards to this leak but we don't know at this point," Mor ... read more |
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Tokyo (AFP) July 27, 2010A Japanese government panel will recommend deploying more armed forces in coastal areas that have seen heavy Chinese naval traffic and relaxing rules on nuclear arms transfers, media reported Tuesday. The expert panel argues that Japan's Cold-War era defence guidelines have become outdated and that the pacifist nation must prepare for "contingencies" on the Korean Peninsula and in the Taiwan ... more  
Ankara, Turkey (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 Turkey has won new backing from one of Europe's most powerful countries: British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday vowed to fight for Turkish membership in the European Union. On his first visit to the country as prime minister, Cameron said he was angry at the slow pace of negotiations, adding that he would "fight" for Turkey's membership in the 27-nation bloc. Turkey as an E ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) July 27, 2010The US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, on Tuesday said a planned drawdown of US troops in Iraq was on track, citing "stunning" progress in security over the past three years. Before arriving in Baghdad, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff told reporters on his plane that Iraq's military and police had proven themselves over the past year. Based on briefings from US ... more |
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Israel sends investigators to Romanian helicopter crash siteJerusalem (AFP) July 27, 2010 Israeli investigators were on Tuesday heading to the site of a helicopter crash in mountainous central Romania in which six Israeli airmen and a Romanian national are thought to have died. The helicopter slammed into the side of a mountain and fell into a valley on late on Monday after becoming separated from its wingman in heavy fog during what an Israeli general described as "routine training" in search and rescue. The military said it had sent a search and rescue team, crash investigators, me ... read more |
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