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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met a barrage of UN and US criticism of his country’s new settlements in the Palestinian territories in tough talks in New York. Israel’s approval of 1300 more homes […] […]

ONE of the highest-ranking CIA officers ever convicted of espionage pleaded guilty overnight to fresh charges of spying for Russia from his jail cell after employing his son to do his dirty work. Harold Nicholson, […] […]

WASHINGTON — On a dark morning in March, two Armenians slipped aboard a train in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, unaware they were being watched. They removed a pack of Marlboro Reds hidden in a […] […]

When a defense attorney in a 2008 rape trial challenged a Santa Clara County prosecutor for dismissing all the prospective Vietnamese jurors, the prosecutor offered explanations the judge accepted as race-neutral. Now, however, an appellate […] […]

Must read CFB PETAWAWA – Cpl. Greg Linton has a bum shoulder and a noticeable limp. Cpl. Jordan Abraham would trade places with him in heartbeat. The two young men barely knew each other until […] […]

THE discovery of a militant training camp in Indonesia has increased US concerns that extremists are regrouping and eyeing Western targets. As President Barack Obama prepares to visit the world’s most populous Muslim country tomorrow, […] […]

THE US commander in Afghanistan has drawn up a colour-coded timetable for the handing over of control of its provinces to local security forces. A handful of areas in Afghanistan have been stamped “green”, signalling […] […]

WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Robert Gates is encouraging Congress to act before year’s end to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. It’s a position shared by his boss, the president. But his new […] […]

NEW DELHI—President Barack Obama appealed Sunday for India and Pakistan to resolve their conflict through dialogue, saying that regional instability will only serve to distract India in its rise as a global economic power. Answering […] […]

TENSIONS are emerging within the Republican Party after victory in last week’s US mid-term elections. Candidates backed by the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement have begun to flexing their newfound muscle. Republicans are being urged to […] […]