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More than 1,000 Hizbullah Terrorists Enter Syria to Help Assad
Apr 15 2013 1:06PM
izbullah is continuing to assist Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in his fight against the rebels. Over 1,000 members of the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group entered Syria in the past few days via waterways in the Mediter...
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Protests outside Cypriot parliament for vote on savings tax
Mar 19 2013 8:51AM
Parliament in Nicosia is due to vote Tuesday on a plan to tax savings in Cypriot banks stipulated by the EU/IMF 10 billion euro bailout deal. Banks stay closed until Thursday. Eurozone ministers advise Cyprus to move the...
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FPI BOARD OF DIRECTORS STATEMENT ON DEFENSE SPENDING AND THE RYAN BUDGET
Mar 14 2013 3:48PM
Washington, D.C. – Foreign Policy Initiative Directors Eric Edelman, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, and Dan Senor today issued the following statement:
"Congress is now weighing a stopgap funding bill that would give ...
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U.S. to extend waivers on Iran sanctions for 11 countries
Mar 13 2013 8:05PM
(Reuters) - The United States is expected to renew waivers on Iran sanctions for Japan and 10 European countries as soon as Wednesday in exchange for their reducing purchases of the OPEC nation's crude oil, U.S. governme...
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Obama rejected tough options for countering Chinese cyber attacks two years ago
Mar 11 2013 1:49PM
President Barack Obama two years ago rejected a series of tough actions against China, including counter-cyber attacks and economic sanctions, for Beijing’s aggressive campaign of cyber espionage against the U.S. governm...
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Iran-North Korea Pact Draws Concern
Mar 11 2013 1:48PM
WASHINGTON—Obama administration officials are raising alarms about a scientific-cooperation pact between North Korea and Iran that officials said could advance the nuclear and missile programs of both countries.
The a...
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Saudi pushes compromise on Bahrain
Mar 10 2013 10:25AM
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U.S. Air Force stops reporting data on Afghanistan drone strikes
Mar 10 2013 10:17AM
(Reuters) - With debate intensifying in the United States over the use of drone aircraft, the U.S. military said on Sunday that it had removed data about air strikes carried out by unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its...
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Kurds Warn BP Not to Drill for Baghdad
Feb 1 2013 12:22PM
ERBIL, Iraq (UPI) -- The escalating dispute between Iraq's central government and the Kurds over oil and land went up a notch after the Kurdistan Regional Government warned oil giant BP not to help Baghdad upgrade an oil...
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U.A.E. Makes Huge Investment in Education and Technology
Mar 19 2013 8:44AM
ABU DHABI — Sheik Nahayan bin Mubarak al-Nahayan stepped down as the United Arab Emirates’ education minister last week, to become its cultural minister. In one of his last interviews as the head of higher education and ...
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Former Pentagon Lawyer Offers Pros and Cons of Drone Court
Mar 19 2013 8:43AM
WASHINGTON – The former top lawyer at the Pentagon during President Obama’s first term warned on Monday that the secrecy surrounding the government’s use of “targeted killings” by drone strikes and other means is breedin...
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Updates on Election of New Pope
Mar 14 2013 3:58PM
s news accounts have noted, Pope Francis is a man of many firsts: the first Jesuit selected to lead the Roman Catholic Church, and the first pope from Latin America. And the media has also highlighted that he is the firs...
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