Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
London, May 6 (ANI): Britain's MI5 secretly tried to hire British men held in Guantanamo Bay and other US prison camps by promising to protect them from their American captors and help secure their return home to the United Kingdom, The Independent has learnt.
One of the men, Richard Belmar, was ...
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Kuala Lumpur, May 1 (ANI): A Malaysian Sessions Court has dismissed Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) legal adviser P. Uthayakumar's application to drop the sedition charge against him.
Judge Sabariah Othman ruled ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Washington, May 1 (ANI): Ali Al-Marri, a Qatari man held without charge by the Bush administration for seven years on suspicion that he was an Al Qaeda sleeper agent, has admitted in a US District Court that he was a member of the terrorist outfit and provided material support to ...
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Pyongyang (North Korea), Apr.25 (ANI): The North Korean Government has that the two female American journalists it has arrested for allegedly crossing the Stalinist state's border with China face five years or more in a labour camp.
Euna ...
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
London, Apr.23 (ANI): The anti-terrorist operation that led to the resignation of a senior policeman, armed raids, the search of 14 properties but ultimately no charges, is to be the subject of an independent inquiry.
The Times quoted Lord Carlile of Berriew, ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
London, Apr 22 (ANI): A lawyer for the three Pakistani men facing deportation after being arrested in anti-terror raids earlier this month says his clients will fight to stay on in Britain.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Washington, Apr.22 (ANI): A senior White House adviser has claimed that the first 100 days of the Obama administration have been the most productive since the first 100 days of Roosevelt administration (1932-1945).
The senior official, a long-time adviser to Obama, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "You would be ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Lahore, Apr. 21 (ANI): Pakistan's civil liberties groups have urged the US Government to lessen the questions on Americans' political beliefs and religious practices of the travelers as part of screening rules on the border posts.
They have also demanded a process of clearing out the names of US citizens ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Lahore, Apr. 21 (ANI): Pakistan's civil liberties groups have urged the US Government to lessen the questions on Americans' political beliefs and religious practices of the travelers as part of screening rules on the border posts.
They have also demanded a process of clearing out the names of US citizens ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Islamabad - Pakistani authorities on Thursday freed the hard-line cleric at Islamabad's radical Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz, a day after the Supreme Court granted him bail.
Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Asadullah Faiz told German Press Agency dpa that police had been withdrawn from Aziz's residence in the garrison city of ...
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