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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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Haiti
Haitian authorities say more than 150,000 bodies have been buried in Haiti since the devastating January 12th earthquake. Haiti’s Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue suggested the death toll could rise to 300,000. Lassegue said, “Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble.” As many as 800,000 Haitians are now homeless in the capital [...]
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US and Russia
Top Russian [deputy foreign minister Sergei Riabkov] and US [undersecretary of state Ellen Tauscher] officials held talks in Moscow Monday dealing with the expired START nuclear weapons treaty, and a new deal could be reached by December 18, according to a Russian newspaper.
US and South Korea
A US envoy [Stephen Bosworth] Monday stressed unity [...]
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US: Three Mile Island
A radiation leak at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear reactor posed no danger to the public, utility officials said. An estimated 100 workers wearing protective suits were contaminated by the leak Saturday afternoon, but had been decontaminated as of late Saturday night and suffered no injury, plant spokesman Ralph DeSantis told WHTM-TV, [...]
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US and Japan
Washington says Japan has no alternative to housing a US air base on its soil, after Tokyo signaled it could remove the outpost altogether. “The existing plan is the only feasible one and that is the view of the entire US government after 15 years of negotiation,” US Assistant Secretary of Defense for [...]
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Russia and Iran
Russia should keep its word on selling a missile defense system to Iran, an influential parliamentarian was quoted by Iranian media as saying Sunday. Moscow, which is under Western pressure to distance itself from Tehran, has not followed through on proposals to supply high-grade S300 air defense missiles to the Islamic state.
China and [...]
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Iran and the UN
Iran ignored a U.N. deadline on Friday to respond to an international draft deal for it to cut an atomic stockpile the West fears could be used for weapons, and challenged the basis of the pact.
Pakistan and US
U.S. drones are providing intelligence and surveillance to the Pakistani military for its offensive against [...]
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