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Apr 6 2009
A senior CSIS official has backpedalled on his admission that the spy agency uses information extracted through torture. In a letter to the Commons public safety committee Thursday, Geoffrey O’Brian of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...
Mar 3 2009
THESE DAYS newspapers, TV news channels, online news portals are filled with the keyword articles related to economic slowdown, recession, pink slips, job losses, etc. And this time small business owners are badly hit. To make your business successful,...
Feb 5 2009
US President Barack Obama came under pressure on Tuesday to resist protectionism in reaction to the global economic crisis as top companies announced massive lossesNYSE and protests broke out in Europe.
Feb 5 2009
The British government says that the United States threatened to withhold shared intelligence if evidence of the torture of a UK citizen at Guantanamo Bay is released. To the shock and horror of civil liberties watchdogs, the Obama administration later...
Jan 16 2009
Pakistan said on Thursday security forces had closed five training camps run by Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed for the Mumbai attack, and arrested 124Pakistani crackdown of its leaders and those of a related charity.
Jan 13 2009
As allegations of war crimes mount and anti-Israeli protests sweep across the globe, Israel appears to be losing its PR offensive against Hamas. Meanwhile, a new generation of Palestinians scarred by theGaza protests war will increasingly turn to...
Jan 8 2009
The United Nations has dismissed Israeli claims that its bloody attacks on schools were directed at killing Palestinians fighters.UN school deaths Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the UN refugee agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said with high...
Jan 7 2009
Hezbollah has stepped up security measures on the Lebanese border in response to the full-scale Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip.Citing an unnamed Lebanese official, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that the...
Jan 7 2009
Israeli tanks and troops blazed into towns across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday striking Hamas targets, but hits on three UN-run schools killed at least 48 people and sparked urgentIsraeli army artillery battery new ceasefire calls.
Jan 1 2009
Israel rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after Hamas rockets hit an Israeli town and Palestinians endured more air strikesIsraeli tanks on the last day of 2008.