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BY: Michael Theodoulou | The National
Iran’s armed forces last night accused the United States and Britain of involvement in the worst terrorist attack in the Islamic republic in many years and warned of revenge after a suicide bomber assassinated five senior Revolutionary Guards commanders and killed at least 37 other people.
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BY: Craig Whitlock | The Washington Post
U.S. and European counterterrorism officials say a rising number of Western recruits -- including Americans -- are traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to attend paramilitary training camps. The flow of recruits has continued unabated, officials said, in spite of an intensified campaign over the past year by the CIA to eliminate al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders in drone missile attacks.
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BY: Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, | Ha'aretz
Sultan Abu al-Ghneim, who represents Fatah in the refugee camps of Lebanon, gave a speech last week at a Ramallah rally and called on Fatah to resume suicide bombings against Israel, according to the report in the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi. But how reliable the report is remains unclear.
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BY: Barbara Surk | Associated Press
A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck destroyed a key bridge Saturday on a highway used by the departing U.S. military, while separate attacks killed nine Iraqis, most of them security force members, police said.
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BY: Ned Parker | Los Angeles Times
Mustafa Kamal Shibeeb is both a powerful local leader and a wanted murder suspect who is caught up in political and tribal battles and score-settling that risk igniting new violence.
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BY: Julius Cavendish | The Independent
Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, has threatened to ignore findings by a UN-backed watchdog that hundreds of thousands of votes cast in August's presidential election were fraudulent.
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BY: Kaveh Afrasiabi | World Politics Review
On Oct. 19, at a multilateral meeting in Vienna focused on nuclear transparency, U.S. and Iranian representatives will meet for the second time in a month in the hopes of working out the modality by which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will inspect Iran's newly revealed enrichment facility known as Fardo, near the holy city of Qom.
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BY: Najmeh Bozorgmehr | The Washington Post
At least five senior commanders in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps and more than 20 tribal leaders and others were killed by a suicide bomber Sunday in the deadliest attack against the Islamic regime in more than two decades.
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BY: Celia W. Dugger | The New York Times
The spokesman for President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe dismissed the decision made by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party to boycott cabinet meetings as “a non-event” and declared that the cabinet would meet Tuesday as scheduled, the state-owned Sunday Mail newspaper reported.
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BY: Ewan MacAskill | The Guardian
The Obama administration will tomorrow roll out a new policy aimed at resolving the Darfur crisis in Sudan, a much softer and more conciliatory line than the president promised during his election campaign.
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BY: Nicholas Birch | Eurasianet
Rapprochement was certainly the aim of the man who dreamed the statue up, former Kars mayor Naif Alibeyoglu. First elected in 1999, he invited Azeri and Armenian artists to Kars, signed sister city agreements across the region, and campaigned in 2005 to end a 16-year Turkish embargo on Armenia.
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BY: Andrew Rettman and Ekrem Krasniqi | EU Observer
Three EU states will in a UN court case in December argue that Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence was illegal. But EU officials say the judges' decision will not impact Kosovo's "irreversible" new status.
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BY: Erlend Paasche | ISN Security Watch
One may be forgiven for discarding the Council of Europe as just another ingredient in the alphabet soup of Europe, but in its low-key way it remains a major player – albeit, one in desperate need of reform.
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BY: Andrea Dudikova and Douglas Lytle | Bloomberg News
Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the only European Union leader who hasn’t signed the Lisbon Treaty, may be forging an exit-strategy from his standoff with Brussels, allowing a resumption of the bloc’s biggest overhaul in decades.
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BY: Pavel Felgenhauer | Eurasia Daily Monitor
The timing of Clinton’s visit was unfortunate, since it coincided with the announcement of the results of the shamelessly rigged local government elections on October 11, held in 75 regions of Russia. In these elections, opposition candidates were refused registration, while independent observers reported massive vote rigging and ballot box stuffing.
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BY: Jane Perlez | The New York Times
The Pakistani military moved deeper into South Waziristan on Sunday, hitting Taliban targets with F-16 fighter jets, as troops supported by helicopter gunships climbed higher into the mountainous terrain, according to military personnel and a spokesman for the militants.
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BY: Greg Miller | Los Angeles Times
Some are skeptical that Al Qaeda would return to Afghanistan, even in the event of a substantial U.S. military drawdown. Doing so would mean leaving a sanctuary in Pakistan that has afforded significant protection for eight years, despite a barrage of U.S. Predator drone strikes.
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BY: Bryony Taylor | Asia Sentinel
After escorting United Nations officials out of the National Assembly, Cambodia's ruling party last week pushed through a draft criminal code that is regarded as yet another barrier to freedom of speech in a country becoming infamous for silencing opposition members and journalists.
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The London Times
Officials have moved to seize two of Venezuela’s prime courses, at Caraballeda and Maracay. However, the move has divided local supporters of the President, with many warning of a detrimental impact on surrounding communities.
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BY: Shawn Woodley | Diplomatic Courier
The United States faces mounting insecurity in cyberspace where foreign intelligence services, criminal organizations, and publics are able to penetrate and compromise sensitive government and corporate networks.