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U.S. probing if al Qaeda linked to airplane incident (Reuters)

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Daniel Larson sits on the floor as his mother Nancy, right, talks with a ticketing agent at the Delta Airlines counter in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009 in Romulus, Mich. The U.S. government tightened airline security as it searches for answers to how a 23-year-old Nigerian man eluded extensive systems intended to prevent attacks like his botched Christmas Day effort to blow up a Northwest flight from overseas. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Reuters - The United States is investigating whether al Qaeda was involved in a Christmas Day attempt to blow up a passenger jet, but there is no early evidence the Nigerian suspect in the case was part of a larger plot, the U.S. homeland security chief said on Sunday.


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Al Qaeda wing says will avenge Yemen raids: web (Reuters)

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Reuters - Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen said it would take revenge over raids against the group this month, which it said were carried out by U.S. jets and killed about 50 men, women and children, in an Internet statement on Sunday.
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Five die in Tehran pro-reform protests (Reuters)

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A Shi'ite woman takes part in a religious ceremony during Tasoua, a day ahead of Ashura, in Yazd, about 700 km (435 miles) south of Tehran, December 26, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza NikoubazlReuters - Five people died in Tehran on Sunday when pro-reform protesters clashed with security forces, police said, in the worst outbreak of violence since June's contested presidential election sparked political turmoil.


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Nigeria bomber’s home town blames foreign schooling (Reuters)

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Reuters - For residents in his home town, it was Umar Abdulmutallab's foreign education, not his roots in Muslim northern Nigeria, that radicalized him and led him to try to blow up a U.S. passenger plane.
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Mousavi nephew among five dead in Iran clashes: websites (AFP)

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Iranian security forces are kicked and pushed by opposition protesters during clashes in Tehran. Iranian reformist websites said security forces killed a nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on Sunday as police confirmed that five people died during anti-government rallies in Tehran.(AFP)AFP - Iranian reformist websites said security forces killed a nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on Sunday as police confirmed that five people died during anti-government rallies in Tehran.


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Families of Americans held in Iran hire Iranian lawyer (Reuters)

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Missing American hiker Sarah Shourd is seen here in this undated photo released by freethehikers.org, August 20, 2009. REUTERS/freethehikers.org/HandoutReuters - The families of three Americans charged with espionage in Iran after straying over the border from northern Iraq in July said on Sunday they have secured an Iranian lawyer to try to get them released.


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Pakistan’s embattled Zardari vows to defend democracy (Reuters)

December 27th, 2009 apasaja No comments

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, addresses a joint sitting of parliament (lower and upper house) in Islamabad March 28, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shi'ite Muslim hall in the Pakistani part of disputed Kashmir on Sunday, killing at least 5 people, police said.


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Hezbollah chief asks Egypt to stop Gaza border wall (Reuters)

December 27th, 2009 apasaja No comments

A boy waves a Palestinian flag in front of an Egyptian security forces building seen on the other side of the Gaza Strip border during a protest against the building of an underground steel barrier by Egyptian authorities to stop smuggling in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 26, 2009. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaReuters - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday called on Egypt to stop building a steel wall along the Gaza border that could obstruct tunnels which provide a lifeline for the blockaded enclave.


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