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US: Land Mines
After reviewing the Bush-era policy, the Obama White House has decided to maintain the prior administration’s refusal to sign an international treaty banning land mines, according to published reports. “We made our policy review and we determined that we would not be able to meet our national defense needs, nor our security commitments [...]
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US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America
From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for ‘full-spectrum operations’ is escalating rapidly
Hugh O’Shaughnessy/Independent
The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and air bases in Colombia. The development – [...]
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Cuba
A retired US state department official and his wife have admitted spying for Cuba for nearly three decades. The former official, Walter Kendall Myers, 72, had access to top-secret government information. Under a plea deal, Mr Myers will spend the rest of his life in jail while wife Gwendolyn, 71, will serve a term of [...]
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China and US
Chinese spies are aggressively stealing secrets to build up China’s military and economic power, a US advisory panel on US-China relations has warned. The report was published in the same week that US President Barack Obama made his first official visit to China. A Chinese embassy spokesman in Washington dismissed the allegations as [...]
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Russia and China
The presidents of Russia and China met for bilateral talks on Saturday on the sidelines of a summit of Pacific Rim countries in Singapore. Leaders from 21 countries are currently attending the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Dmitry Medvedev told Hu Jintao at the start of the meeting: “Our countries’ relations are [...]
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Pakistan
A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan’s main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and striking at the heart of the institution overseeing much of the country’s anti-terror campaign. The blast in Peshawar was the latest in a string of bloody attacks on security forces, civilian and Western targets since [...]
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Palestine
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will accept the recommendation of independent election experts on Thursday to postpone the vote he had scheduled for January, senior officials said. The Central Election Commission said it had advised Abbas to put off the election since the rival Hamas Islamist group ruling some 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip [...]
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Colombia seizes $19M in forged US bills in 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOGOTA — Colombian authorities say they have seized $19 million in forged U.S. currency so far this year, five times the amount confiscated last year.
A statement from the Presidency’s press office says 16 people have been arrested in Colombia and the United States in connection with the seizures and seven illegal counterfeiting print shops [...]
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Koreas
North and South Korean naval forces exchanged fire in disputed waters off their west coast Tuesday, the first such incident in seven years. No South Korean casualties were reported, but the North Korean ship was badly damaged during the skirmish. Each navy is blaming the other for the incident, which analysts believe will heighten tensions [...]
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