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Drones: pros and consMoscow, Russia (Voice of Russia) Jun 22, 2012 Recently, US human rights organization called "American Civil Liberties Union" filed in a suit against President Obama's administration. This organization demands that the president's administration should no more keep secret some details of its anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mainly, the human rights activists are worried about using drones in these operations. The court has accepted their suit and started an investigation. This is not the first time that this issue become ... read more |
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  Iran enriching uranium at fast pace despite Stuxnet: experts Iran's uranium enrichment effort has picked up speed in the past three years and has not been crippled by cyber sabotage from the Stuxnet virus, experts told US lawmakers on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
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  Britain to spend $1.7B on sub projects Britain will spend $1.7 billion on two nuclear submarine reactor cores and upgrades at a Rolls-Royce production facility, the U.K. Ministry of Defense says. ... more | .. |
  Researchers advance biometric security Researchers in the Biometric Technologies Laboratory at the University of Calgary have developed a way for security systems to combine different biometric measurements-such as eye colour, face shape ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Game book Take A few steps back, allow a few months to pass, and Syria becomes Libya. ... more | .. |
 Syria rebels gain ground with foreign help Syrian rebels seem to be gaining ground in their increasingly bloody 15-month-old uprising to unseat President Bashar al-Assad and his minority Alawite regime. ... more |
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Climate change increases risk of successive natural hazards in the Himalayas
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 Germany orders new soldier systems The Rheinmetall Group is supplying the German army with state-of-the-art soldier systems, initially for troops deploying to Afghanistan. ... more | .. |
 Hu and Obama meet on sidelines of G20 talks US President Barack Obama on Tuesday lobbied President Hu Jintao of China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, on efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria. ... more | .. |
 Iraq parliament stops work until blast walls put back The speaker of the Iraqi parliament said on Thursday that he had ordered a halt to all work at the legislature until concrete blast walls removed in recent days are put back. ... more |
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France quizzes Iraq official on Iran dissident 'torture' French police on Thursday held an Iraqi official for questioning after a member of the exiled Iranian opposition filed a complaint against him alleging torture and war crimes, a judicial source said. ... more | .. |
 Portuguese armor vehicle to test in Brazil Portuguese manufacturer Pinhol plans to test its new four-wheel explosive-resistant armored vehicle in Brazil with a view to developing a long-term production and marketing partnership in the Caribbean and Latin American region. ... more | .. |
 Saddam Hussein's nephew seeks asylum in Austria A nephew of late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has requested asylum in Austria after being picked up by police in a routine identity check, the interior ministry said Friday, confirming media reports. ... more |
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 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lands at Vandenberg The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. (PDT) June 16. OTV-2, which launched from Cape Canaveral ... more | .. |
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 Iraqi Kurd editor of pro-Israel magazine missing An Iraqi Kurdish editor of a magazine that advocates relations between the Kurdistan region and Israel has been missing for more than 10 days, a journalist and a media rights group said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Iran, world powers stuck in nuclear impasse: analysts Talks between world powers and Iran to defuse the Iranian nuclear crisis face a tough future after the sides failed to edge any closer to a breakthrough at a crunch meeting in Moscow, analysts said. ... more |
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 Taliban suicide attack hits NATO, kills 21 A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed an Afghan-NATO patrol in the town of Khost on Wednesday, killing 21 people, including three US soldiers, officials said. ... more | .. |
 '30 Qaeda dead' in Yemen raids, anti-West plot foiled Yemeni security forces carried out air strikes in which 30 suspected Al-Qaeda militants were reported killed in the south of the country on Wednesday and said they foiled a plot to attack embassies. ... more | .. |
 Soldiers, rebels die in Shan state clashes A dozen Myanmar soldiers have died in clashes with the Kachin Independence Army in Myanmar's northern Shan state, unconfirmed reports said. ... more | .. |
 Israel says raid kills Gazan behind Egypt border attack Israeli air strikes on Wednesday killed a Gaza teenager and a militant who the army said was a "global jihad" operative behind a deadly ambush on Israel's border with Egypt. ... more |
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