"Four people were killed and more than 20 others wounded Thursday in confrontation between protesters and security forces in the western Guatemalan province of Solola, authorities said. " Source: …
Jordan’s king dissolves parliament, elections next
"Jordan's royal palace says the king has dissolved his parliament, setting the stage for elections. Jordan's government has claimed that the elections emerge from reforms that spared Jordan the Arab …
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US Blacklists Firms over Russian Tech Spy Ring
"The United States Commerce Department has blacklisted 165 foreign companies and individuals in connection with the activies of several people from the former republics of the USSR suspected of spying …
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French spy, not lynch mob killed Gaddafi: Report
"A French secret serviceman shot dead Libya’s former strongman Col Muammar Gaddafi and not a lynch mob of rebels as he lay trapped and cornered in a sewage pipe in his home town of Sirte. In addition, …
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The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue
"Codes have always been primary espionage targets, but they have become more valuable as encryption programs have become both more common and more complex. Today, even the National Security Agency, …
Mole-in-Training: How China Tried to Infiltrate the CIA
"The case that confronted assistant US Attorney Stephen Campbell was unique in the annals of espionage: Never before had the Chinese government recruited an American citizen as a spy and then tried to …
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Obama waives sanctions on countries that use child soldiers
"Late Friday afternoon, Obama issued a presidential memorandum waiving penalties under the Child Soldiers Protection Act of 2008 for Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen, penalties that Congress put in place …
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Spain economic crisis fuels Catalan separatist sentiment
"Three weeks after a massive Catalan separatist march in Barcelona — the biggest since the 1970s — the independence flags still flutter from balconies across Spain's second largest city. Spain's …
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Syria: Al-Nusra Front ‘captures’ Yemen troops
"The al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group fighting government forces in Syria, has reportedly posted a video saying it has captured five Yemeni soldiers sent to help quell the uprising." Source: BBC …
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US to Iran: Stop shipping arms to Syria
"The United States warned Iran to stop providing arms to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad even as it announced millions of dollars in non-lethal support for the opposition attempting to oust the …
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