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Samoa
The tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high — more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists said Friday. [U]p to three destructive waves were caused by the magnitude 8.0 undersea earthquake [...]
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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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Iran and IAEA
U.N. inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. Mohamed ElBaradei also told the New York Times that he was examining possible compromises to unblock a draft nuclear cooperation [...]
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Poland and Russia
According to UK’s Telegraph, documents obtained by Wprost, a Polish news magazine, revealed a nuclear training exercise designed for and carried out by approximately 13,000 Russian and Belarusian soldiers targeted Poland as a “potential aggressor.” Troops are said to have practiced amphibious landings on the country’s shore closest to Russia, and the Russian [...]
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US: Anthrax
Firedoglake: Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Mueller’s responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. (The questions start on page 42 of these QFRs.) Mueller’s answers make it clear the FBI was–and is still–trying to cover [...]
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US and India
U.S. and Indian forces wrapped up their largest joint military exercise to date, practicing a set of maneuvers simulating environments in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 200 troops from the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 14th Calvary Squadron brought 17 Stryker combat vehicles from Hawaii to practice maneuvers with their counterparts in the Indian armed [...]
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India, Russia and China
India, Russia and China agreed Tuesday to enhance cooperation in combating terrorism [and transnational crime] and expressed concern at the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. A joint communique issued after a meeting in Bangalore of the foreign ministers of the three countries said among the topics they discussed were the global financial [...]
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Lebanon and Israel
Mysterious explosions in South Lebanon, reportedly involving covert Israeli operations to eavesdrop on Hezbollah’s secret communications network, have heightened tension after two alleged guerrilla arms dumps were blown up in recent weeks. Israeli media reports have implied that Israeli Special Forces teams were responsible for the wiretapping operations a mile or more inside [...]
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