Gates praises troops in hard-hit battle unit in southern Afghanistan Star Tribune | FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. | Gates visited a small, remote outpost 30 miles north of Kandahar, whe...
PM calls Ansari, regrets Rajya Sabha fracas The Siasat Daily | New Delhi, March 09: Irked by the developments in the Rajya Sabha over the women’s bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh telephoned Vice President Hamid Ansari and expressed regret over attempts by some SP members to attack him in the House. | The Prime Minister called Mr. Ansari on Monday to expr...
Sky marshals demand star treatment, threaten to quit The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Sky marshals, national security guards on board a flight to encounter any terror threat, have threatened to stop flying on Mumbai-Kathmandu sector complaining of insufficient food and lodging arrangements by airlines, as per an official le...
Amsterdam airport tightens security after sting Khaleej Times THE HAGUE, Netherlands ' Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport ' the departure site for the Detroit underwear bomber ' tightened security Tuesday after journalists orchestrated a sting operation that smuggled bottles of liquids onto planes bound for London an...
Airport body scans breach rights: UN expert Khaleej Times GENEVA - A UN expert on Tuesday said the growing use of full body scanners in airport security was a breach of individual rights. | Martin Scheinin, the UN special rapporteur on the protection of human rights, said that while countering extremism sca...
Who is out to get President Obama? The Examiner | We hear a lot of talk today about rightwing extremists, hate groups and out of control Christian types posing a threat to the President. | A recent article in The Guardian took pains to echo a controversial 2009 Department of Homelan...
Amsterdam Airport Tightens Security After Sting ABC News By MIKE CORDER Associated Press Writer | THE HAGUE, Netherlands March 9, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press | FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 file photo, a crew member is checked near a body scanner at... FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 file ph...
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Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 31 The Press Democrat | Many Iraqis hope the election will put them on a path toward national reconciliation as the U.S. prepares to withdraw combat forces by late summer and all troops by the end of ne...
Airplane passengers near thunderstorms exposed to dangerous rays Zeenews Washington: In a new study, scientists have found that airplane passengers flying near thunderstorms could be exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation in the form of terrest...
Airport body scanners spreading across US Khaleej Times BOSTON ' The Transportation Security Administration on Friday announced nine more U.S. airports that will receive body-scanning technology, as the U.S. heightens its effort to dete...
Watch, Discuss, Engage at 3:00: Secretary Napolitano Answers on Aviation Security The White House Posted by Graves Spindler on March 09, 2010 at 09:56 AM EST | The December 25 attempted terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airliner served as a stark reminder that terrorists will stop at nothing to try to hurt and kill Americans. | Toda...
Gunshots heard in violence-wracked Nigerian town The Miami Herald | JOS, Nigeria -- Automatic weapons fire punctuated by screams erupted after dark Tuesday in a Nigerian city located near villages where massacres just two days ago left more than 200 people dead. | Authorities imposed a dusk-til-dawn curfew Tuesday ...
First Iraq election results to be released Wednesday The Star | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Preliminary results from Iraq's parliamentary election will be released on Wednesday, an electoral commission official said on Tuesday. Iraqi's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks to reporters after voting at a polling station in the Green Zone in Baghdad March 7, 2010. (REUTERS/Ali Abbas/Pool) | None of the political blocs c...
