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CIA’s Pakistan chief leaves country
The CIA’s Islamabad station chief, who oversaw the intelligence team that uncovered Osama bin Laden’s hideout, has left Pakistan for medical reasons, a US official said. The CIA declined to comment on the matter. “The chief of station is a respected, senior officer who had the full faith and confidence…
US hikers in Iran court, hope for end to ordeal
A new hearing opens Sunday in the trial of three American hikers who face espionage charges in Iran after straying into the country two years ago, an ordeal their lawyer hopes will have a happy ending. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both 29, were arrested along with Sarah Shourd, 32,…
Iraq ‘less safe than a year ago’: U.S. watchdog
Iraq is a less safe place than it was one year ago as security continues to deteriorate, an American watchdog warned on Saturday, just months ahead of a US withdrawal from the country. The assessment by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) contrasts markedly from the more optimistic…
Royal palace among Norway suspect’s other targets
The royal palace and the headquarters of the governing Labour Party were on self-confessed Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik’s list of targets, the tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Saturday. “During his interrogation, he said that he had planned to attack other targets, but on July 22 it was only the…
Floods wash N. Korean landmines into S. Korea
North Korean landmine parts apparently churned up by torrential rains have washed up across the border in South Korea, prompting a search for more weapons, the defence ministry said Saturday. The wooden shells of two North Korean landmines were found Thursday in a cistern near the Hantan River in Cheolwon…
Japan floods claim first victim
Floods claimed their first victim in Japan and nearly 300,000 people were urged to flee their homes Saturday as a weather system that killed dozens on the Korean peninsula swept the country. Local governments in the central province of Niigata and tsunami-hit Fukushima issued the guidance after the national weather…
Xbox addict ‘dies from blood clot’
The family of a budding computer programmer have on Saturday launched a campaign to raise awareness about the health risks of playing online computer games after their son died following a marathon session on his Xbox. A post-mortem revealed that 20-year-old Chris Staniforth — who was offered a place to…
Knox trial in Italy told no DNA on knife blade
A forensic expert in Amanda Knox’s appeal against her conviction for murdering her British roommate in Italy said Saturday that no DNA was found on the blade of the presumed murder weapon. The original trial for the 2007 murder in the medieval Italian university town of Perugia had heard that…
Militants attack gas pipeline in Egypt’s Sinai
Unidentified gunmen on Saturday attacked a terminal on the gas pipeline to Israel for the fifth time since February, a security official said. Gunmen on motorbikes and cars lobbed grenades and tried to storm the terminal at Al-Shulaq in north Sinai but were confronted by armed forces, leading to clashes.…
Scandal-tainted Indian minister to quit Sunday
The chief minister of a southern Indian state who is accused of being at the centre of a $3.6-billion mining fraud will resign on Sunday, he said Saturday. B.S. Yeddyurappa, 68, head of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka state, announced he would quit in an…
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