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Senate committee cuts Pakistan aid over doctor's conviction

Articles: 67, Last update: May 24, 2012 11:18:00 PM, Start: May 24, 2012 11:55:00 AM

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Grenade attack wounds three in Kenya refugee camp

Articles: 5, Last update: May 24, 2012 11:17:00 PM, Start: May 24, 2012 8:53:00 PM

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US targeting Al-Qaeda websites to subvert propaganda

Articles: 4, Last update: May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM, Start: May 24, 2012 8:54:00 PM

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INTERVIEW-Freed Islamist says Lebanon can't snub Sunnis over Syria

Articles: 3, Last update: May 24, 2012 8:52:00 PM, Start: May 24, 2012 8:15:00 PM

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Yemeni army kills 33 militants in south

Articles: 25, Last update: May 24, 2012 11:11:00 PM, Start: May 24, 2012 2:53:00 PM

Sources: 18 , Peak: 13, Current rank: 150, Previous rank: 151, Change: +1150%

Articles published more than 10 minutes ago

El municipio de Nerva, en Huelva, lucha contra el fuego

Source country antena3noticias Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:30:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] autobomba[1];

Other categories:

Por el momento se desconocen las causas de este incendio, que ha requerido la movilización de más de 70 especialistas, cinco vehículos autobomba, así como un total de 11 medios aéreos desplazados....

Suriye'deki olaylarda ölü sayısı 41'e çıktı

Source country haber7 Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:30:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] ölümüne[1]; silahlı[1]; öldürdü[1]; örgüt[1]; ölenlerin[1]; bombalı[1]; saldırılar[1];

Entities: Ez Zor[1];

Other categories: Security; Manmade Disasters; Conflict;

Suriye İnsan Hakları İzleme Örgütü, ülkenin çeşitli kentlerinde ordunun yönetim karşıtlarına karşı düzenlediği operasyonlarda ölenlerin sayısının 41'e yükseldiğini duyurdu....

Uludere test case for Turkey’s Kurdish problem

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] PKK[3]; killed[2]; militants[1]; acted[1]; attack[1]; attacks[2];

Entities: Murat Yetkin[1]; Huseyin Celik[1]; Naim Şahin[1]; Recep Tayyip Erdogan[3]; İdris Naim Şahin[1];

Other categories: Security; Conflict;

Any Turkish journalist would admit that Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin is like a gold mine when it comes to striking quotes ......

No approval for Şahin, but debate over, premier says

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] PKK[4]; killed[1]; deaths[2]; militants[1]; attack[1]; air raid[1];

Entities: Abdullah Ocalan[1]; Huseyin Celik[1]; Metehan Demir[1]; Naim Şahin[1]; İdris Naim Şahin[1]; Recep Tayyip Erdogan[3];

Other categories: Security; Conflict;

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “The terror organization always likes to be promoted, we will not do that,”

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan offered no support yesterday for Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin’s contentious comments on last year’s Uludere raid....

Tensions in commission over botched air raid

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] air raid[2];

Entities: Sezgin Tanrıkulu[1]; Ayhan Sefer Üstün[1];

Other categories: Society; Conflict;

The simmering controversy over last year’s botched Uludere air raid stoked more political tensions....

Back to 1990s on Kurdish woe

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] PKK[11]; deaths[1]; militants[1]; killings[2]; terrorist[1]; attacked[1]; attack[1]; group[1]; attacks[6]; killing[4]; air raid[1];

Entities: Nouri al-Maliki[1];

Other categories: EU-USA; Conflict;

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) recent attacks against civilians in East and Southeast Anatolia points to a return to Turkey’s dark 1990s era....

Interior Minister Şahin under fire from all sides

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] terrorists[1]; PKK[9]; killed[2]; militants[1]; terrorist[1]; bombing[1];

Entities: Huseyin Celik[1]; Naim Şahin[1]; Recep Tayyip Erdogan[3]; İdris Naim Şahin[1];

Other categories: Security; Conflict;

Turkey’s interior minister comes under fire from even his own party after dubbing villagers killed in a raid last year to be terrorist ‘extras.'...

The Uludere raid and pickled cabbage

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] PKK[1]; killed[4]; kill[1]; Massacre[1]; terrorist[1]; group[2]; dead[1]; air raid[1];

Entities: Francis J Ricciardone[1]; Ahmet Şık[1]; Yousaf Raza Gillani[2]; Naim Şahin[1];

Other categories: Conflict;

Quotes in this article

Naim Şahin said: “they had lost their lives while involved in smuggling,”

The American Ambassador to Ankara, Francis J. Ricciardone, made the headlines in Turkey, shortly after taking up his post in Ankara ......

The US must apologize, but we are not required to

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] PKK[4]; killed[1]; militants[1]; attacks[1]; killing[2];

Entities: Naim Şahin[1]; Recep Tayyip Erdogan[3]; Sedat Ergin[2];

Other categories: Fight against Fraud; Conflict; Air Transport - Aviation Safety;

Quotes in this article

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “I need to remind you here of the apology declaration the United States [made] because of our martyrs in Pakistan. Because there was a very clear, a very open incident there,”

“I need to remind you here of the apology declaration the United States [made] because of our martyrs in Pakistan......

Obama firm on foreign policy

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] killed[1]; bin Laden[1];

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Mitt Romney[1]; Osama bin Laden[2];

Other categories: Conflict;

U.S. President Barack Obama on May 23 staunchly defended his foreign policy record against Republican election-year criticism that he has overseen a decline in American power in the world....

Amnesty slams UN for leadership failure

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] al-Qaeda[2]; killed[1]; bin Laden[3]; group[4]; killing[2];

Entities: Anwar al Awlaki[1]; Samir Khan[1]; Salil Shetty[1]; Bashar Assad[1]; Osama bin Laden[4];

Other categories: Security Council; Conflict; UN Bodies;

Quotes in this article

Salil Shetty said: “The determination of some U.N. Security Council members to shield Syria at any cost leaves accountability for these crimes elusive and is a betrayal of the Syrian people,”

Salil Shetty said: “In the last year it has all too often become clear that opportunistic alliances and financial interests have trumped human rights as global powers jockey for influence in the Middle East and North Africa,”

Amnesty International has accused the U.N. Security Council of shortcomings in its 50th annual report, saying it has failed to match the courage shown by protesters around the world and is increasingly “unfit” to fulfill its duties....

US starts hacking game with Yemen’s al-Qaeda

Source country hurriyetdailynews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:24:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] terrorism[1]; al-Qaeda[10]; killed[2]; bin Laden[1]; attack[4]; group[3]; attacks[4]; killing[1];

Entities: Abdo Raboo Mansour Hadi[2]; Ali Abdullah Saleh[2]; Abed Rabbo[1]; Hillary Rodham Clinton[1]; Osama bin Laden[2];

Other categories:

Quotes in this article

Hillary Rodham Clinton said: “Our team plastered the same sites with altered versions of the ads that showed the toll al-Qaeda attacks have taken on the Yemeni people,”

The US starts an online cat-and-mouse game with al-Qaeda in Yemen as part of a larger, multipronged attack on terrorism, Secretary of State Clinton says...

Articles published more than 20 minutes ago

Hund verursacht tödlichen Sturz - Besitzerin zu Geldstrafe verurteilt

Source country Tagespiegel Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:19:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] Tötung[2];

Other categories:

Es war eine Verkettung „ganz unglücklicher Umstände“, so die Anklägerin. Boxermischling Lotte rannte einen Radfahrer um. Der starb zwei Tage später im Krankenhaus. Nun wurde die Hundebesitzerin wegen fahrlässiger Tötung verurteilt. Mehr zum Thema Bauplaner überwachten sich selbst Airlines fordern.......

Syrian general urges intervention

Source country bbc Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:19:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] Air strikes[1]; air strikes[1]; killed[2]; death[1]; rebel[1]; killing[1];

Entities: Henry Jackson[1];

Other categories: Security; Conflict;

A former Syrian army general calls for foreign intervention in his country to end the "barbaric genocide" being committed by the regime....

U.S. drone strike in Pakistan kills 10 suspected militants

Source country WashingtonPost Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:18:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] terrorists[1]; al-Qaeda[1]; killed[2]; death[1]; airstrike[1]; bin Laden[3]; militants[2]; kills[1]; terrorist[1];

Entities: John Kerry[1]; Shakil Afridi[1]; Osama bin Laden[5]; Lindsey Graham[1];

Other categories: Conflict;

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Ten suspected militants were killed in a pre-dawn drone strike on a compound in a tribal district in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, a local tribesman and security official said. Read full article >>...

Norvegia, Breivik non farà appello contro il verdetto del tribunale se riconosciuto sano di mente

Source country ruvr-it Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:16:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] terroristico[1]; terrorista[1]; attacco[2];

Entities: Anders Behring Breivik[1];

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Il terrorista norvegese Anders Breivik, accusato del duplice attacco del 22 luglio, ha dichiarato oggi nel tribunale di Oslo che non ha intenzione di impugnare la sentenza se sarà riconosciuto sano di mente, riferiscono i media norvegesi. Come riferito dall'accusato sta cercando di presentare tutte.......

Articles published more than 30 minutes ago

Yemeni army kills 33 militants in south

Source country ynetnews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:09:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] Islamist[1]; al Qaeda[1]; killed[1]; insurgents[1]; militants[3]; kills[1]; dead[1];

Other categories: Conflict;

Yemeni troops fought Islamist militants in southern cities on Thursday, as the government pressed ahead with a US-backed offensive to help stabilise the impoverished Arab state that has turned into a base for al Qaeda. At least 33 militants were killed in heavy fighting with the Yemeni army on the.......

Islamabad seeks face-saving formula

Source country gulfnews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:08:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] air attack[1]; attack[1]; killing[1];

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Islamabad: Pakistan is unlikely to re-open supply routes to Nato troops in Afghanistan unless the United States offers a politically acceptable formula in talks on ending a six-month standoff on the issue, a Pakistani official said yesterday. The official said the ruling Pakistan People's Party.......

Islamabad seeks face-saving formula

Islamabad: Pakistan is unlikely to re-open supply routes to Nato troops in Afghanistan unless the United States offers a politically acceptable formula in talks on ending a six-month standoff on the issue, a Pakistani, official said on. The, official said the ruling Pakistan People's Party. ...

Pentagon let Hollywood in on Bin Laden sting, documents claim

Source country gulfnews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:08:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] killed[1]; group[1]; Bin Laden[3];

Entities: Peter T King[1]; George Little[1]; Hurt Locker[1]; Mark Boal[1]; James Gregory[1]; Osama bin Laden[8]; Tom Fitton[1]; Kathryn Bigelow[1];

Other categories: Security; Protected species;

Washington: In the months after the US military mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, Pentagon officials met with Hollywood filmmakers and gave them special access in an effort to influence the creation of a film about the operation, newly released documents show....

Pentagon Hollywood let in on Bin Laden sting, documents claim

Washington: In the months after the US military mission that is Osama Bin Laden, Pentagon officials met with Hollywood filmmakers and gave special tour packages access in an an every effort to influence the jurists a film about the operation, newly released documents show.

Terrorism tops agenda in Islamabad, Delhi talks

Source country gulfnews Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:08:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] terrorism[3]; Terrorism[1]; militants[1]; terrorist[1]; attack[3]; bombing[2]; attacks[1];

Entities: Saeed Ahmed[1]; Hafiz Saeed[1];

Other categories: Conflict;

Islamabad: Pakistani and Indian authorities began a two-day meeting here yesterday to discuss cooperation between the two neighbours on security and drug trafficking issues, officials said. The host country's delegation was led by Interior Secretary Seddiqi Akbar Khwaja whereas his counterpart R.K. Singh headed the Indian team....

Deputy FM meets US Congress delegation

Source country sabanews-en Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:08:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] terrorism[1]; terrorist attack[1]; terrorist[1]; attack[1];

Entities: Steve Chabot[1]; Ali Muthanna[1];

Other categories:

SANA'A, May 24 (Saba) – Deputy Foreign Ministry Ali Muthana met here on Thursday with the U.S. Congress delegation headed by Steve Chabot Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia....

PKK'nın Varto sorumlusu öldürüldü

Source country radikal Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:06:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] PKK[2]; öldürüldü[1]; terörist[1];

Entities: Ali Cinar[1];

Other categories: Security; Conflict;

Varto'da başlatılan operasyonlarda, aralarında Varto bölge sorumlusunun da bulunduğu 3 PKK'lı öldürüldü....

Iran, big powers agree to another round of nuclear talks

Source country msnbc Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:05:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] air strikes[1]; mortal[1]; Group[1];

Entities: Trita Parsi[1];

Other categories: EU-USA; Security; Imports Exports; EU-Asia; External Relations;

Quotes in this article

Trita Parsi wrote: "All parties should be commended for returning to the negotiating table. Obama should be commended for having turned diplomacy into a process rather than the one-off meetings that existed in the past,"

Iran and world powers agreed to meet again in Moscow next month for more talks to try to end the long-running dispute over Tehran's nuclear program....

Norvegia, Breivik rinuncerà ad appello se condannato

Source country euronews-it Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:05:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] attentatore[1]; strage[1]; estremista[1];

Entities: Anders Behring Breivik[1];

Other categories:

Giunto al 24esimo giorno il processo contro l'attentatore norvegese Anders Breivik. L'estremista di destra autore della strage nell'isola di Utoya lo…...

Senate committee cuts Pakistan aid over doctor's conviction

Source country csmonitor Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:03:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] terrorists[1]; terrorism[1]; killed[3]; al-Qaida[1]; bin Laden[4]; attack[2]; group[1]; Al Qaeda[1]; attacks[1];

Entities: Mark Kirk[1]; Donna Cassata[1]; Sam Lahood[1]; Dianne Feinstein[1]; Shakil Afridi[1]; Osama bin Laden[6]; Lindsey Graham[1]; Patrick Leahy[1];

Other categories: EuropeAid Co-operation Office; UN Bodies;

Quotes in this article

Lindsey Graham said (about Osama bin Laden) : "We need Pakistan, Pakistan needs us, but we don't need Pakistan double-dealing and not seeing the justice in bringing Osama bin Laden to an end,"

Patrick Leahy said: "It's Alice in Wonderland at best,"

After a Pakistani court sentenced the doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden to 33 years for treason, a US Senate panel voted Thursday to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million....

US cuts Pakistan's aid in protest at jail for doctor who helped find Bin Laden

Source country guardian Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:03:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] killed[3]; al-Qaida[1]; Taliban[1]; bin Laden[1]; terrorist[1]; attacks[1]; Bin Laden[8];

Entities: Dana Rohrabacher[1]; Shaukat Qadir[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Dianne Feinstein[1]; Pete King[1]; Leon Panetta[1]; Shakil Afridi[3]; Osama bin Laden[18]; Lindsey Graham[1];

Other categories: EuropeAid Co-operation Office;

Quotes in this article

Lindsey Graham said: "We need Pakistan. Pakistan needs us,"

Shaukat Qadir wrote (about Shakil Afridi) : "Shakil [Afridi] had no idea of whom or what he was looking for. He was merely paid to follow instructions,"

Senate committee votes to slash Pakistan's aid by $1m for each of the years Shakil Afridi, who ran fake CIA vaccine, is in prison A US senate committee has voted to cut Pakistan's aid by $1m for each of the 33 years of a prison sentence given to a doctor for helping the CIA to track down Osama bin Laden....

Articles published more than 40 minutes ago

US targeting Al-Qaeda websites to subvert propaganda

Source country news-yahoo Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:59:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] terrorists[1]; Al-Qaeda[10]; militants[1]; group[2]; attacks[1]; killing[1];

Entities: Hillary Rodham Clinton[1]; Victoria Nuland[1]; Barack Obama[1];

Other categories: Security; Conflict;

Quotes in this article

Victoria Nuland added: "to indicate that it is Yemenis who are dying at the hands of Al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen,"

Experts waging a beefed-up US cyberwarfare campaign against extremist militants targeted websites run by Al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch and changed the message to subvert their propaganda, US officials say....

Syrie: le régime accusé par l'ONU, le chef démissionnaire du CNS dénonce sa lenteur

Source country normandie Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:58:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [TerroristAttack] attachement[1]; islamistes[3]; militants[1]; bombardements[1]; terrorisme[1]; attaques[1];

Entities: Bourhan Ghalioun[1]; Kofi Annan[1]; Bashar Assad[1];

Other categories: Conflict; UN Bodies;

L'armée syrienne a bombardé mercredi les villes de Rastane et d'Idleb, défendues farouchement par les rebelles, malgré le déploiement des observateurs de l'ONU jusqu'à présent incapables de stopper l'engrenage de la violence....

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