US says four Afghan rebels dead, locals say victims were civilians:
US forces killed four suspected rebels in an operation in southern Afghanistan, the US military said Sunday, but Afghan officials said they were probing claims the victims were civilians.
http://tinyurl.com/7l52gd
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Royal Marine killed in Afghan blast:
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Canada won't support U.S. plan to arm Afghan militias: MacKay:
Washington's plan to arm local tribes to take on the Taliban in untamed districts of Afghanistan is possibly ``counter-productive" and not something Canada supports, says Defence Minister Peter MacKay.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/557103
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Afghanistan on brink of famine, aid agency warns:
Last week, the Afghan Health Ministry said more than 1.6 million children under the age of five and hundreds of thousands of women could die as a result of food insecurity and a lack of medical care.
http://tinyurl.com/9ls6o8
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Iran warns US over more troops to Afghanistan:
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a press briefing in Tehran that the US should be careful of the consequences of its new policies in Afghanistan and not make the same mistakes as in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/9yod7a
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Russia says supplying Iran with "defensive" weapons: ·
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Russia Denies Delivering Sophisticated S-300 Missiles System To Iran:
Russia's Federal Military and Technical Cooperation Service said in a statement posted on its website on Monday that the reports about Moscow selling Iran advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile system "does not correspond to reality."
http://tinyurl.com/a53muq
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Tehran says no final agreement yet on Russian air defence agreement:
"The Foreign Ministry has not yet received anything final in this regard, therefore I can neither confirm nor deny this agreement," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi told reporters in Tehran.
http://tinyurl.com/8fkp7l
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Russia delivers nuclear fuel to operate Bushehr compound - Iran:
Russia has delivered nuclear fuel to operate the Bushehr atomic compound, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said on Monday.
http://tinyurl.com/8rzm3z
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Iraqi police: Officer killed in Mosul:
Iraqi police say an officer was killed when gunmen fired on a police patrol in the restive northern city of Mosul.
http://tinyurl.com/aymkpz
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U.S. Marine killed in combat in Iraq:
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Iraq: Some U.S. Combat Troops To Be Reclassified:
The U.S-Iraq agreement calls for the withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq cities by June, but officials say many will remain as reclassified personnel. Military planners acknowledge many will be renamed "trainers" and "advisers" in what officials told The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) are essentially combat roles.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21517.htm
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US troops may stay in Iraq in disguise:
Though the deadline for withdrawal of US troops from Iraqi cities has been decided as June 30, 2009, experts have argued that roughly 10,000 American troops should remain in Baghdad after that period, in the guise of "trainers" and "advisers" in what are effectively combat roles.
http://tinyurl.com/79zewg
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U.S. upgrading key Iraqi naval base:
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'No apology' from Iraq shoe-thrower:
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Palestinians agree to 24-hour lull:
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Egypt warns Israel against Gaza raid:
Egypt warned Israel on Sunday against launching a massive military operation in Gaza, but Israeli defense officials said Cairo was angry with Hamas leaders for ending the six-month period of relative calm. .
http://tinyurl.com/6vbg6q
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Israel Spared in Middle East Internet Cable Damage:
Internet communications began to return to large parts of the Middle East Sunday after undersea communications cables were cut. Israel was spared damage, but service in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates was severely affected.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/157857
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David Hicks : Australian Taleban' fully free:
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Chavez says plot to kill Bolivian leader uncovered:
Chavez said the Bolivian president called and told him that authorities in the Andean country had uncovered the plot.
http://tinyurl.com/7252sk
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Clinton Reveals Donors:
Former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation has taken in more than $140 million in the past decade from foreign sources, including the Saudi royal family and leaders of a Middle Eastern government now negotiating a controversial deal with the U.S. government to procure nuclear-energy technologies.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122961863763818563.html
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List Of Clinton Foundation Donors:
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Fighting the Greedy Defense Lobbyists:
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Madoff Scheme Was 'Impossible' to Do Alone, Says EIM's Busson:
Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme, which might have cost investors $50 billion, couldn't have been carried out alone, said Arpad 'Arki' Busson, chairman and founder of Swiss investment firm EIM SA.
http://tinyurl.com/7vs9ky
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Greed has Pushed Political Credibility and Financial Trust into Freefall:
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World faces "total" financial meltdown: Bank of Spain chief :
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New Report: Worldwide Bankruptcy Wave About to Hit:
Europe and the U.S. are about to experience a significant increase in business failures. That's the conclusion reached by Paris-based Euler Hermes, the world's largest credit insurer, in a recently released 57-page report on business insolvencies worldwide.
http://tinyurl.com/4uh453
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UK: Bailiffs get power to use force on debtors:
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Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret:
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$1.6 billion went to bailed-out bank execs:
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