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US: Katrina The second guilty plea in the Danziger Bridge case today revealed additional details about the conduct of New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina and suggested more prosecutions of higher-ranking officers are yet to come. Former police detective Jeffrey Lehrmann pleaded guilty to failing to report a felony in connection to a [...]
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Kissinger admitted to hospital with virus

UPI SEOUL, March 13 (UPI) — Ailing former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger likely will be released from a South Korea hospital Sunday, hospital sources say. Kissinger, 86, was admitted to the Seoul hospital Saturday with a stomach virus after complaining of stomach pain, CNN reported. “He is getting hydration and holding his food down,” Dr. John [...]
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Dubai Interpol joined an international task force investigating the Dubai assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The international policing organization also said it was convinced of the broad, international scope of the crime. The notices, short of international arrest warrants but a request to Interpol members to detain the named people for extradition, bring to 27 the [...]
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Iraq Dozens of explosions that ripped through the Iraqi capital and other cities Sunday morning killed at least 30 people and soured the early hours of Iraq’s first parliamentary election as a sovereign nation. As polls were closing at 5 p.m., Iraqi officials said the series of attacks failed to thwart the election, which unfolded smoothly in [...]
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Falklands Washington refused to endorse British claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands yesterday as the diplomatic row over oil drilling in the South Atlantic intensified in London, Buenos Aires and at the UN. Despite Britain’s close alliance with the US, the Obama Administration is determined not to be drawn into the issue. It has also declined [...]
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Video Obtained By “60 Minutes” Shows Pentagon Employee Selling Secrets to Chinese Spy

Via: CBS “60 Minutes” has obtained an FBI videotape showing a Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese spy for cash. The video, which has never been made public before, offers a rare glimpse into the secretive world of espionage and illustrates how China’s spying may now pose the biggest espionage threat to the U.S…. …In [...]
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Chinese Hack Tracked Back to Two Universities and an IE Exploit [Google]

Gizmodo/Adam Frucci 19 Feb 2010 Investigators at the NSA have tracked the huge online attacks that Google used as their reason for leaving the Chinese market to two universities, one with ties to the Chinese military.
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China threatens world health by unleashing waves of superbugs

Peter Foster/Telegraph China’s reckless use of antibiotics in the health system and agricultural production is unleashing an explosion of drug resistant superbugs that endanger global health, according to leading scientists. Chinese doctors routinely hand out multiple doses of antibiotics for simple maladies like the sore throats and the country’s farmers excessive dependence on the drugs has tainted [...]
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Zimbabwe A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments. Diplomats and analysts believe that the mile-long runway is intended for arms shipments, probably from China, for which troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe would pay on the spot with gemstones [...]
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Russia Russian news agencies have reported that Moscow has signed an arms deal with Libya worth C1.3 billion ($1.8 billion).The reports by the state agencies ITAR-Tass and RIA Novosti say Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the contract Saturday at a meeting with the head of Izhmash, which makes assault rifles, machine-guns and other weapons.According to the [...]
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