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Taliban claims kidnap of 30 Pakistanis
Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for the kidnap of more than 30 young people who mistakenly crossed the border from the country’s lawless northwest into Afghanistan. A spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) said those kidnapped were not boys as reported by Pakistani officials but aged between 20 and 30,…
Nazi war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro dies
Hungary’s Sandor Kepiro, until recently the world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, died Saturday in Budapest aged 97, said his family, cited by the Hungarian news agency MTI. Kepiro was suspected of ordering the execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in the Serbian town of Novi Sad in…
UN eyes post-Kadhafi Libya, Tripoli goes back to work
Police were back on the streets of Tripoli and business slowly resumed Saturday after a week of fighting, festivities and political tumult, in a quiet but significant boost for Libya’s fledgling government. Meanwhile the international community — hyper-sensitive to mistakes made in Iraq and Afghanistan — moved to ensure longer-term…
Assange could be prosecuted for unplanned WikiLeaks release
Since the unanticipated release this week, in complete and unredacted form, of all 251,287 U.S. State Department cables held by WikiLeaks, there has been plenty of blame to go around — and the possible repercussions have grown increasingly dire. Most obviously in danger are the informants in places like Iran,…
Chile police chief resigns after shooting of protester
SANTIAGO — Chile’s police chief resigned Friday after coming under pressure over the high-profile shooting death of a teenage protester that has fueled social unrest in the Andean nation. General Eduardo Gordon’s position as general director of the carabineros became untenable when the government asked him to respond to a…
Chinese bloggers question official’s suicide
BEIJING — Tens of thousands of Internet users have gone online to question reports in China’s state-run media saying an anti-corruption official found dead with 11 stab marks to his body had taken his own life. The body of Xie Yexin, who worked as an anti-corruption official in the central…
UN agency to host talks on nuke-free Mideast
VIENNA — The UN atomic watchdog said Friday it will host talks on creating a nuclear-weapons-free Middle East after countries in the volatile region showed willingness to attend after a decade of stonewalling. Member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) requested in 2000 that such a forum take…
Iraq to reopen probe into U.S. executions detailed by WikiLeaks
Iraqi officials said Friday that following revleations by anti-secrecy website Wikileaks, they plan to reopen an investigation into a series of shootings allegedly carried out by U.S. soldiers in 2006. According to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in…
Full WikiLeaks ‘cablegate’ archive available online
The complete archive of 251,000 unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables given to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks by a military whistleblower is now available for anyone to download and view, thanks to a forthcoming reporter and a breach in security protocol by someone at WikiLeaks. Thinking there was nothing to it, David Leigh,…
Israelis call for ‘demo of one million’
Israeli activists have called for a “demonstration of one million” people as part of their ongoing protest movement against rising costs of living in the Jewish state, organisers said Friday. It will be held Saturday evening across Israel, the organisers said. “We are actually counting on rallying hundreds of thousands…
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