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Tsunami warning cancelled: Expert says Hawaii ‘dodged a bullet’
Initial predictions may have overestimated tsunami size
Experts say tsunami becoming more powerful as it hits
Chile
Chileans fearful of aftershocks camped outside on Sunday as rescuers battled to find survivors of a huge earthquake that shattered roads and airports and triggered a tsunami across the Pacific.
One of the [...]
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X-Files Axed: UFO Reports To Be Destroyed
Huw Borland, Sky News Online
The Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public, a previously secret memo has revealed.
Britain’s official UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed down at the start of December.
Since then, reports of strange sights in the skies sent to [...]
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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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Haiti
Although a U.S. Baptist group said it was trying to rescue 33 “orphans” by taking them out of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, all the children have close family still alive, The Associated Press has found.
Niger
The leaders of the military coup in Niger have promised a “return to constitutional order”, three days after overthrowing President Mamadou Tandja.
A spokesman [...]
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MI5 may face new torture inquiry
TimesOnline/David Leppard
21 Feb 2010
AS befits Britain’s most senior spy, Jonathan Evans is noted in Whitehall for being cool under fire. That quality will be tested this week when MI5’s director-general learns whether his service is about to be engulfed by one of the biggest crises in its 100-year history.
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Britain ‘knew Mossad was using fake passports for Dubai hit’
Haaretz Service
20 Feb 2010
U.K. denies Daily Mail claims Israeli spies tipped off MI6 before killing Hamas’ Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
Israeli agents tipped off British intelligence that they were going to carry out an ‘overseas operation’ using fake British passports before assassinating a Hamas official in Dubai, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.
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Dubai police call on Interpol to help arrest Mossad head
Julian Borger and Mark Tran/Guardian
20 Feb 2010
• Emirate ‘99% sure’ Israeli spies were behind Mabhouh death
• Israeli ambassador told to explain use of fake British passports
Interpol should help arrest the head of Mossad if Israel’s spy agency was responsible for the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the emirate’s police chief said today.
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Haiti
Joint Task Force Haiti has requested that the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team be allowed to start returning home, said Col. Gregory Kane, task force operations officer.
The task force made the request to U.S. Southern Command, and it will ultimately have to be approved by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
“There have been discussions [in [...]
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Gordon Brown pledges full probe into hit squad fake British passports
Joe Churcher, Independent
Gordon Brown today promised a “full investigation” into the use of faked British passports by a hit squad who assassinated a Hamas commander in Dubai.
The Prime Minister said: “We are looking at this at this very moment.”
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