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December 18th, 2013

Guantánamo Skipper Orders Nativity Scenes That Stirred Controversy Moved to Base Chapel Canada: Retired Generals Take Aim at Ottawa's Handling of Defense Cuts
Iran's Khatami: Everyone Feels Heavily Bugged Senate Debates US Defense Policy Bill Amid Rift Over Amendments
Kerry Expresses Regret to India Over Diplomat Case Senate Panel Approves Bill Keeping Aid Flowing to Military Governments
Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Accused of Torture in Areas of Syria It Controls Omar Khadr Condemns His Guantánamo Plea Deal, as Canada Concedes He Is Not a 'Maximum-Security Threat'
Senators: CIA 'Misleading' Public Over Secret Torture Report Syrian Air Raids Exact High Toll on Aleppo
US Close to Bipartisan Deal to Allow Release of Some Guantanamo Detainees US Urges UN to Express Outrage at Syria Airstrikes
Britain's MI6 Linked to Libya Torture Scandal Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills Five Troops at North Waziristan Mosque
Feds: Man Held in Reno Supported India Terrorism Worry in Tunisia Over Youths Who Turn to Jihad
Lebanese From Syria Displaced Twice Over South Sudan: Mutiny Forces Attack Jonglei Military Camps
Hunting for US Arms Technology, China Enlists a Legion of Amateurs The Children Who Join the Cubs... and Learn to Kill People: Al-Qaeda-Led Factions in Syria Are Training Boys as Young as 10 to Become Rebel Fighters
Saudi Envoy: West Put Mideast at Risk by Not Invading Syria UN General Assembly Condemns Syria, Iran, North Korea for Rights Abuses
India Vows to 'Restore Dignity' of Diplomat Stripped in US Three Iranian Guards Killed in Roadside Bombing
Presidential Panel to NSA: Stop Undermining Encryption Turkish Police Chiefs Sacked After Detaining Ministers' Family Members in Fraud Probe
Attacks Across Iraq Kill at Least 11 Protests Rage in India Over Arrest, Strip Search of Diplomat Devyani Khobragade in New York
Three Pakistanis Killed in Iraq Attack In Hardscrabble Villages, Bedouin Want Recognition, Not Relocation
Meeting With Chinese Fm, Netanyahu Stumps for Firm Stance Against Iran Hamas Man Killed, 6 Injured, in Jenin Firefight With Israeli Troops
In Texas, Search Warrants Can Now Be Based on a 'Prediction of a Future Crime' NDAA 2014 Clears Final Hurdle; Final Vote This Week
Strip NSA of Power to Collect Phone Data Records, Obama Review Panel Says Delayed Decision on Likud-Yisrael Beytenu Split Boosts Netanyahu
Report: Dozens of Gazans Fighting With Jihadi Groups in Syria Egypt: Morsi to Face Trial for Cooperating With Hamas, Hezbollah
Israeli Forces Kill One Palestinian, Wound Several Others in Jenin Clashes Review: NSA Snooping Program Should Stay in Place
NSA Panel Recommends Sweeping Changes to Surveillance Program Saab Wins Brazil Jets Deal After NSA Spying Sours Boeing Bid
Uk's Top Soldier Laments Britons' Waning Appetite for Wars Kirk-Menendez-Schumer Wag the Dog Act of 2014
Navy Investigator Traded Confidential Information for Prostitutes, Luxury Travel Report and Recommendations of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies
Presidential Advisory Committee's Recommendations for NSA Larry Klayman: the Tea Party 'Gadfly' Who Took on the NSA
Transferred India Diplomat Blasts Harsh US Treatment Record High in US Say Big Government Greatest Threat
NSA's Bid for a 6-Month Delay in Protecting Larry Klayman's Phone Records Afghan Taliban Torch US Vehicles at Pakistan Border
A Local Peace Accord Is Reached in Afghanistan. Then the Arguing Starts. Guantanamo Prison Commander Previously Ran US Detention in Somalia
NSA Review Panel Releases Findings on US Surveillance Practices Predator and Reaper Drones Are Misunderstood, Says Manufacturer
US Diplomat Kills Man in Car Crash, Flees Kenya Feinstein's NSA Bill Is Officially on Life Support
US Pressuring Israel Not to Announce New Settlement Construction Sao Paulo: Brazilian Senator Urges Asylum for Snowden
New Delhi: India Diplomat Says She Faced Cavity Search in NYC Egypt's Morsi to Face New Trial on Terror Charges
NSA Shouldn't Keep Phone Database, Review Board Recommends EPA Official, Who Pretended to Work for CIA, Sentenced to 32 Months
Iraq Police Hero Sacrifices Himself to Save Pilgrims Army Defections as South Sudan Violence Spreads
Guantanamo Prisoner Again Ejected From Hearing US Ambassador Says Syria's Islamic Front Rejects Talks
UN Will Send Troops to Scene of Congo Massacre Syria's Islamic Front Spurns Talks With US: Diplomat
Pentagon Evacuates Diplomats, Allies From Sudan North Korea: Jang Song Thaek Airbrushed Out of Kim Jong UN Images
Saudi Ready to Act Alone on Iran, Syria: Ambassador Group: Turkey Jails Most Journalists for 2nd Year
Indian Diplomat's Letter to Her Colleagues Iran Guards 'Killed in Sistan Baluchistan Blast'
Kenya Media: President Kenyatta Signs 'Draconian' Bill Russian Lorries to Transport Syria Chemical Weapons
Mohammed Morsi Faces Egypt Terrorism Charges Russia Parliament Approves Amnesty for Prisoners
South Sudan Opposition Head Riek Machar Denies Coup Bid Pussy Riot, Greenpeace Activists Granted Amnesty as Russian Duma Passes Bill
China Confirms US Warship Near-Collision Masked Army: Shadowy Jihadist Group Expands Rapidly in Syria
Iran Says Nuclear Talks With World Powers to Resume on Thursday Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Are Hunting and Killing Moderate Syrian Rebels
AP Poll: 57 Percent of US Says Going to War in Afghanistan Was 'Wrong Thing to Do' Israeli General Says 'Prawer Plan' Still on the Table
Britain Pulls Out Embassy Staff From South Sudan Ex-CIA Director Calls for Snowden to Be 'Hanged by His Neck Until He Is Dead'
This Congressman Kept the US and China From Exploring Space Together 'Syrian and Somali Doctors' Shot Dead Near Mogadishu
India Freezes Duty-Free Alcohol in Row With US Over Diplomat's Arrest

December 17th, 2013

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