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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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Swine Flu Drug companies manipulated the World Health Organisation into downgrading its definition of a pandemic so they could cash in on a swine flu outbreak, it is claimed.An inquiry heard yesterday that the WHO allegedly softened its criteria for declaring a H1N1 flu pandemic last spring – just weeks before announcing there was a worldwide [...]
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Cuba Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn flew to Cuba hoping to interview its revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, entertainment news website TMZ reported Sunday. “Sean (Penn) is going to the land of Fidel as a journalist, writing a story for Vanity Fair (magazine) about how the (Barack) Obama administration has affected Cuba,” TMZ reported. Canada and [...]
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Libya and Russia: “Libya is planning to buy 12 to 15 Su-35 multi-purpose fighters, four Su-30s and six Yak-130 combat training planes from Russia,” AFP quoted the source as saying, citing the Russian news agency Interfax. The deal is estimated to be worth around one billion dollars,and is likely to be signed by 2010. Iran:US and [...]
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MI6 ‘halted bid to arrest bin Laden’

Guardian Startling revelations by French intelligence experts back David Shayler’s alleged ‘fantasy’about Gadaffi plot British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
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