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Intelligence agencies spying on lawyers in sensitive security cases

The intelligence services have routinely been intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients in sensitive security cases, according to internal MI5, MI6 and GCHQ documents. The information obtained may even have been exploited unlawfully and used by the agencies in... read more »

Terror groups citing ISIS crusade to rec...

Terror groups citing ISIS crusade to recruit Indian youths

Terror groups are invoking the name of the Islamic State (IS) as a tool for recruiting youths in India. These youths can be trained in the lawless areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border for carrying out terror strikes in India, officials in the security establishment said. Intelligence... read more »

Unmasking Robert O’Neill, the US N...

Unmasking Robert O’Neill, the US Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden

A decorated ex-Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill has been unmasked as the man who pumped three shots to the head of elusive al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden during a top-secret 2011 raid on his hideout in Pakistan. The identity of Rob O’Neill, 38, was revealed by the special operations community... read more »

Obama defends Iranian nuclear deal against 'tough talk and bluster'
President Obama sent ‘secret lette...

President Obama sent ‘secret letter’ to leader of Iran

US President Barack Obama is said to have written a secret letter to Iran’s supreme leader describing a shared interest in fighting Islamic State. The letter, reported by the Wall Street Journal, urges Ayatollah Ali Khamenei toward a nuclear agreement. The US chief stresses any co-operation... read more »

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Iran can make N-bomb 'fairly quickly': Israeli intelligence

Iran can make N-bomb ‘fairly quickly’: Israeli intell...

Jerusalem – Iran could manufacture an atomic bomb ‘fairly quickly’ as there has been no change in its ‘nuclear vision’, Israel’s Military Intelligence chief Maj... read more »

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Ex-Thai PM to file lawsuit against public prosecut...

Bangkok – Former prime minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva Tuesday said he would file a lawsuit against the Office of Attorney General for... read more »

Tiananmen crash a suicide attack, 2 suspects identified...

China car attack likely work of discriminated community, not terrorists

Beijing – Islamic militants from the restive Xinginag region are suspected to be behind the deadly car crash in Tiananmen Square according to Chinese... read more »

Syria’s chemical attack ability `limited` after OPCW de...

Experts gather in Cyprus to remove Syria's chemical weapons

Washington – Syria’s ability to launch a large-scale chemical attack has been limited following destruction of all its key equipment and facilities by... read more »

Pak accountability court re-opens six corruption cases ...

Pak accountability court re-opens six corruption cases against Zardari

Islamabad – A Pakistani Accountability Court (AC) has re-opened six pending corruption cases against former President Asif Ali Zardari. The AC-1... read more »

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The Arabs are in. Turkey is on the fence. Britain, still smarting from an earlier Iraq war, is cautiously edging toward expanded action. Even Greece wants to help – if someone would... read more »

Air strikes in Syria hit Islamic State-held areas near Turkey border

BEIRUT – Air strikes overnight hit Islamic State-held territory in Syria near the Turkish border, an organisation that tracks violence in the Syrian war said on Wednesday. Rami... read more »

Ebola epidemic more deadly than all previous combined, report says

The Ebola epidemic has already killed more people than all previous outbreaks combined, and an alarming new analysis by the World Health Organization suggests it already may be too late to... read more »

In airstrikes, US targets terror cell said to be plotting an attack

WASHINGTON: US forces took advantage of the airstrikes against the Islamic State extremist group in Syria to try to simultaneously wipe out the leadership of an unrelated cell of veterans... read more »

Australian Police Kill ‘Known Terror Suspect’

Australian police have shot and killed a “known terror suspect” after he stabbed two officers outside a police station in Melbourne. The 18-year-old attacked the officers with a knife... read more »