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Pakistani Girl Shot By Taliban Leaves UK Hospital
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban, has been discharged from the Birmingham hospital where she was being treated.The Queen Elizabeth hospital said...
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The Iraqi Government Has A Problem With Fat Cops
Ihsan Ghaidan, a policeman in one of Iraq's most volatile provinces, admits he stands little chance of promotion and notes his performance is increasingly under the microscope, for one simple reason --...
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CONFIRMED: The NSA Is Developing A 'Perfect Citizen' Program To Protect The...
Newly released documents confirm that the National Security Agency (NSA), America's top cyberespionage organization, is spearheading a cloaked and controversial program to develop technology that could...
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The 'War On Terror' Is Designed To Never End
Last month, outgoing Pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on Terror must, at some point, come to an end:"Now that efforts by the US military...
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Miami Police Corruption Trial That's Centering On An Iraq War Vet Is Better...
A pair of veteran Miami narcotics detectives testified in federal court Friday against their former supervisor, accusing Sgt. Raul Iglesias of scheming to plant cocaine on a suspect and once carrying...
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North Korea's New Master Plan Includes Key Advice From The Germans
Known under the official misnomer Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), North Korea is an inscrutable, unpredictable, armed-to-the-teeth thorn in just about everyone’s side, a pariah ready to...
View ArticleWhy Syria Is Different From All Of The Other Arab Spring Uprisings
Arab Spring: Time from protests beginning to the president resigning or being killedEgypt: 17 daysTunisia: 28 daysLibya: 8 monthsYemen: 9.5 monthsSyria: 22 months and countingThere’s a little variation...
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Congressional Inaction Could Kill A Valuable Navy Deal
Having failed to produce timely defense spending bills or avoid a chaotic end to a year-long march toward sequestration, the recently-deceased 112th Congress also failed to approve a normally prosaic...
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Bin Laden Movie Torture Scenes Are Totally Fiction: Ex-CIA Official
Bloody interrogations like those depicted in Hollywood's take on the hunt for Osama bin Laden "Zero Dark Thirty" never really happened, according to the former CIA official who ran such programs."The...
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Four Chinese Surveillance Ships Push Their Luck With Japanese Patience
Four Chinese government ships entered territorial waters around Japan-controlled islands at the centre of a dispute on Monday, the Japanese coastguard said.The four marine surveillance ships were seen...
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U.S. Marine Corps Goes With Rolls Royce For Big Military Contract
Rolls-Royce has won another US military contract. Questor says buy.Rolls-Royce918pQuestor says: BuyDispelling some concerns about global defence spending, on Friday Rolls-Royce won a $52.2m (£32.6m)...
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GREENWALD: CIA Nominee John Brennan Is Being Rewarded For Extremism And...
Prior to President Obama's first inauguration in 2009, a controversy erupted over reports that he intended to appoint John Brennan as CIA director. That controversy, in which I participated, centered...
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Former Obama Adviser: Drones Are Much More Destructive Than Officials Admit
The United States' use of drones is counter-productive, less effective than the White House claims, and is "encouraging a new arms race that will empower current and future rivals and lay the...
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US Officials: Syria 'Has Chemical Weapons That Could Be Used Within Two Hours'
Syria has armed dozens of bombs with sarin gas and other chemical weapons that could be used to target opposition less than two hours after President Bashar al-Assad issues orders, US officials have...
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Japan To Raise Military Budget For First Time In Decade Amid China Row
Japan will raise military spending this year for the first time in over a decade under a ruling party plan, an official said, as Tokyo summoned Beijing's envoy amid a territorial row.The national...
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Hardcore Islamist Fighters Spill Out Of Mali To Assault Government Forces
Al-Qaeda fighters have advanced from their stronghold in northern Mali into the central region of the country, clashing with government forces.The army used artillery to bombard the extremists in a...
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On-Base 'Prayer Leader' Kills British Soldier In First Insider Attack Of 2013
A member of the Afghan army who acted as a prayer leader for troops has shot dead a British soldier in the year's first insider attack, according to officials in the region.As many as six British...
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Assad's Public Appearance On Sunday Could Be His Last
The appearance of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before his people and the world on Sunday was his first since June 2012, and it could be his last.His speech, translated fully here, seemed an...
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A Marine Recounts How He Lost His Bomb Sniffing Dog In Combat
August 9th dawned scalding and dry across the Marjeh district of Helmand province, Afghanistan. In the blocks, a fertile swath of land watered by a canal network stretching dozens of square kilometers,...
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US Defense Contractor Pays $5 Million Over Abu Ghraib Abuse
A US defense contractor accused of helping torture prisoners at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison has paid former detainees more than $5 million to settle a lawsuit, according to regulatory filings...
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