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Finally, Obama breaks his silence on drones
Over the last four years, there has been a strange irony. One of the greatest speakers of our era has largely kept silent about one of the signature aspects of his presidency. Under President Obama's leadership, U.S. civilian intelligence agencies...
Tags: Brookings Institution, U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Central Intelligence Agency, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Roadside bomb kills 13 in southwest Pakistan
ReutersISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region's natural gas and other resources. There was no...Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Elections, Wars and Interventions, Bombings
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Bernanke and growth fears send shares lower, yen up
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Concerns over the future of the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus and weak Chinese factory data sent shares sharply lower and safe haven currencies like the yen higher on Thursday. The shift from riskier assets to safer...Tags: Bonds, Machine Manufacturing, Stamford, Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), North Sea
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EEUU admite haber matado a cuatro de sus ciudadanos en ataques en el exterior
ReutersWASHINGTON, 22 mayo (Reuters) - El Gobierno de Estados Unidos reconoció formalmente el miércoles por primera vez que mató a cuatro estadounidenses en operaciones contra el terrorismo en Yemen y Pakistán, donde Washington ha realizado ataques aéreos...Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, Barack Obama, Washington, DC
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Global Village: Spaniards Salivate Over Food Shows; France Debates Mobile Tax, More
VarietyCHINA "Django" Eventually Unchained Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" returned to Chinese multiplexes May 12 after being suddenly removed, in some cases midscreening, a month ago. The pic has been stripped of three minutes of nude scenes, but the...Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Eurovision Song Contest (tv program), Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Sports
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Lydia Davis wins Man Booker International Prize
Lydia Davis, known for writing powerful, compact short stories, was announced as the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday. The prize, which was presented at a ceremony in London, comes with an award worth more than $90,000....
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U.S. for first time acknowledges role in deaths of Americans in drone strikes
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one a senior leader of al-Qaida's Yemen-based affiliate and said...Tags: Career and Workplace, International Relations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Rights, Justice and Rights
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In Britain, terrorism suspected in man's hacking death
LONDON — As bystanders watched in horror, a man was hacked to death in broad daylight on a London street Wednesday and two suspects were shot and wounded by police, who are investigating the incident as a likely terrorist attack. The two...
Tags: Islam, Career and Workplace, Shootings, Riots, Boris Johnson
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Obama to lay out rationale for drone strikes in speech
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday in an effort to be more transparent about his counterterrorism policy, a White House official said. Obama has been pressured from both...Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, White House, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, U.S. Military
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Government killed four Americans in drone strikes
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government formally acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it had killed four Americans, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. Attorney General Eric Holder...Tags: U.S. Congress, Eric Holder, White House, Anwar al-Awlaki, U.S. Department of Defense
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: Military Equipment, U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts, University of Oxford
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U.S. military lawyers put more pressure on Guantanamo
ReutersMIAMI (Reuters) - Military and civilian lawyers for prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base urged U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to improve conditions for detainees, putting more pressure on the Obama administration to make good its promise to close...Tags: Career and Workplace, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Yemen, The Wall Street Journal, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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