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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Libyan NTC claims capture of Gaddafi's son

Mutassim Gaddafi, one of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons, has been arrested in Sirte, according to officials in Libya's National Transitional Council. He is currently being held in Benghazi, the NTC's eastern power base, after being arrested on Wednesday, NTC officials told the Reuters news agency. "He was arrested today in Sirte," Colonel...

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US imposes penalties on Iranian commercial airline The Guardian

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is penalizing an Iranian commercial airline that it says is helping Iran's feared special operations forces. The Treasury Department says Mahan Air provides financial, material and technological support to the Quds Force and to Hezbollah. A Treasury statement says the...

A farewell to nuclear arms Al Jazeera

Twenty-five years ago this month, I sat across from Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate a deal that would have reduced, and could have ultimately eliminated by 2000, the fearsome arsenals of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union. For all our differences, Reagan...

Iran dismisses US murder-plot claim Al Jazeera

Iran has vigorously rejected US allegations that it had backed a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador, with a senior official describing them as a "childish, amateur game". Ali Larijani, the parliament speaker, said on Wednesday the "fabricated allegations" aimed to divert attention from Arab...

Myanmar frees about 300 dissidents, many still in jail The Star

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar freed at least 300 political prisoners including several prominent dissidents on Wednesday, leaving as many as 2,000 behind bars, as one of the world's most reclusive states begins to open up after half a century of iron-fisted rule. Comedian, actor and political prisoner...

Not Only Simplistic But Superstitious and The Ordeal WorldNews.com

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal remarked at the Council on Foreign Relations that then-President George W. Bush and the United States began the war in Afghanistan with a "frighteningly simplistic" view of the country, he could have added...

Italy's president expresses concern about Berlusconi government Daily Press

ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano Wednesday expressed deep concern about whether the squabbling government of Silvio Berlusconi was capable of taking vital decisions for the country, including measures to combat an economic...

Bombs hit Iraqi police in Baghdad, 14 dead: sources The Star

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide car bombers and a car bomb hit police in separate districts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding around 60, interior ministry and police sources...

Bout trial: lawyers to present their case Independent online (SA)

New York - Opening arguments were due on Wednesday at the start of the New York trial of Viktor Bout, an alleged Russian arms dealer described by the United States as “one of the most dangerous men” in the world. The former Soviet military officer is accused of attempting to sell a huge...