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The US military is transferring Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, from the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay to his home country of Yemen, The Washington Post has reported citing two government officials.
25/11/2008
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A US court has convicted a Muslim charity and five of its former leaders on 108 charges in the largest "terrorism" financing trial in US history.
25/11/2008
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Pakistani television channels have reported that Rashid Rauf, a British national with al-Qaeda links, has been killed by a US missile attack in the North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan.
22/11/2008
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US economic and political power is set to decline over the next two decades and the world will grow more dangerous as the battle for scarce resources intensifies, a report by US intelligence agencies has predicted.
21/11/2008
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The US attorney-general Michael Mukasey, has collapsed while making a speech in Washington DC.
21/11/2008
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A US court has convicted a Syrian-born arms dealer for plotting to sell arms, including anti-aircraft rockets, to Colombian rebels.
21/11/2008
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The three biggest US car makers have pleaded with congress for $25 billion in aid to save their businesses, warning that their collapse would further damage the ailing US economy.
19/11/2008
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A Chinese-born US physicist has pleaded guilty to illegally exporting information on space launches to China and offering bribes to Chinese officials to win a contract, US officials have said.
18/11/2008
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The United Nations highest court will hear a genocide claim lodged against Serbia by neighbouring Croatia for alleged ethnic cleansing committed during the conflict in the region in the early 1990s.
18/11/2008
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An doctor accused of plotting car bomb attacks in London and Scotland has admitted he was a "terrorist" according to British law but said that he had not planned to kill or injure anyone.
18/11/2008
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The US military in Afghanistan says its troops have killed 10 suspected fighters at a base belonging to a group believed to be linked to al-Qaeda.
15/11/2008
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The US government has authorised secret military attacks on al-Qaeda fighters and other targets in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to a report in The New York Times newspaper.
11/11/2008
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The British government has revoked the tourist visas of Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister of Thailand, and his wife, the Bangkok Post newapaper says, quoting airline employees.
08/11/2008
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The US has halted aid to three Colombian army units after officers and soldiers were implicated in the killing of civilians, a senior US official has said.
08/11/2008
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The US military says that Taliban fighters prevented civilians from fleeing clashes in southern Afghanistan, leading to the death of about 40 people who were believed to have been attending a wedding ceremony.
06/11/2008
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