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Washington Times: At her first opportunity to do so, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan banned military recruiters from campus during her tenure as dean of Harvard Law School, in protest over the Pentagon's policies on gays. Ms. Kagan's defenders insist the nominee was simply following the law as it worked its way through the courts, but Ms. ...
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BAGHDAD (AP) - Worries over increased violence fueled by Iraq's political instability have forced U.S. commanders to reconsider the pace of a major pullout this summer without overstepping a deadline to cut the military's presence by nearly half by the end of August. More than two months after parliamentary elections, the next government has still not ...
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Israeli Defense Minister: No Obama Threat To Nuclear Reactor, Israel To Maintain Nuclear “Ambiguity”
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Jerusalem Post: Defense Minister Ehud Barak stated Tuesday that there is no reason to fear any change in US policy regarding the Dimona reactor. When asked in an Army Radio interview if it was possible that Washington would agree to inspection of the reactor by International Atomic Energy Agency observers, Barak said that during his recent visit ...
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BBC News: The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan contains a facility for detainees that is distinct from its main prison, the Red Cross has confirmed to the BBC. Nine former prisoners have told the BBC that they were held in a separate building, and subjected to abuse. The US military says the main prison, now called the ...
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(Reuters) - Iran's military warned off a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft trying to approach Iranian naval maneuvers, Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday. The incident involving the two old foes happened on Monday, the semi-official news agency quoted the armed forces chief as saying. Iran's navy last week launched eight days of exercises in the Gulf and the ...
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Jerusalem Post: Jerusalem is increasingly jittery that cracks are appearing in the nearly half-century-old US policy of upholding Israel’s right to maintain its “nuclear ambiguity,†following reports that Israeli nuclear capabilities are, for the first time, scheduled to be on the agenda of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board meeting next month. One diplomatic official said ...
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Times Online: President Karzai arrives in Washington today for crucial talks to mend relations with the US as the Taleban threaten a new assault in Afghanistan. The four-day visit by Mr Karzai comes at a critical moment in his strained relationship with the Obama Administration and in the eight-year Afghan war. With a US-led military operation aimed at ...
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Washington (AP) - - Suspected US missiles struck a house in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing five people in the latest American strike targeting militant leaders, intelligence officials said. The strikes were in North Waziristan, a tribal region that has long been a haven for Taliban- and al-Qaida-linked militant networks battling American and NATO forces across ...
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(Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev struck a conciliatory note at Russia's Victory Day military parade on Sunday, urging world powers to unite for peace and defending his decision to invite NATO troops to march on Red Square. For the first time since Stalin began commemorating the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, serving U.S., British Polish ...
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NY Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Obama administration has delivered new and stiff warnings to Pakistan after the failed Times Square car bombing that it must urgently move against the nexus of Islamic militancy in the country’s lawless tribal regions, American and Pakistani officials said. The American military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, met with ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday called into question the Navy's heavy and expensive arsenal of ships and subs. In a speech before naval officers and contractors, Gates did not say he was planning to cut any programs or its budget. But he did say the military must rethink whether it can afford such ...
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HUTAL, Afghanistan (AP) — In the U.S. Army, Casey Thoreen is just a 30-year-old captain. Around here, he's known as the "King of Maiwand" district — testimony to the fact that without the young captain and a fat international wallet, local government here as in much of the insurgency-ravaged south could not function at all. Setting ...
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Washington Post; The Obama administration is likely to reveal a closely guarded secret -- the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile -- during a critical meeting starting Monday at which Washington will try to strengthen the global treaty that curbs the spread of nuclear weapons, several officials said. Various factions in the administration have debated for months ...
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EU Times: A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s largest offshore drilling contractor Transocean that was built and financed by South Korea’s Hyundai ...
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The Hill: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is pressing the House Armed Services Committee chairman to hold off on scrapping the ban on openly gay people serving in the military. In a letter to Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), Gates said that he believes “in the strongest possible terms†that Congress should not take any legislative action to ...
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Washington Times: The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from Iran sanctions to companies based in "cooperating countries," a move that likely would exempt Chinese and Russian concerns from penalties meant to discourage investment in Iran. The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act is in a House-Senate conference committee and is expected to ...
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Hackey ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud is now believed to have survived a U.S. missile strike earlier this year, but has lost clout within the militant network, a senior intelligence officials said Thursday. The revelation contradicts initial confidence among U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials that the brash militant leader had been killed in the mid-January ...
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters)- Iran and Egypt are gearing up for battle against the United States and its allies over Israel and developing countries' rights to atomic technology at a major meeting on the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to attend the conference, which opens on Monday and runs until May 28. He will ...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said. Egypt has been under pressure to seal off the hundreds of tunnels that are a key economic lifeline for the blockaded Palestinian territory but which are ...
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The Alamo Flag. This flag was used from 1824 until the 1830's. On March 6, 1836, the Mexican army under General Santa Anna breached the walls of the Alamo at San Antonio, Texas. 187 defenders died that morning. All were avenged six weeks later when Sam Houston, with the cry "Remember the Alamo," defeated Santa ...
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