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		<title>Finland denies missing ship carries nuclear material</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PRAIA — Finnish authorities dismissed talk Sunday that the Arctic Sea was bearing a cargo of nuclear material, as Russia and NATO joined forces in an international hunt for the missing vessel.
Jukka Laaksonen, head of the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, said firefighters conducted radiation tests on the ship &#8212; last reported off Cape Verde &#8212; at a port in Finland before it began a voyage full of intrigue.
But he dismissed as &#34;stupid rumours&#34; reports in British and Finnish newspapers that the ship could be carrying a &#34;secret&#34; nuclear ...]]></description>
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		<title>Israel, Hezbollah threaten war &#8211; again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Khirbet Silm, south Lebanon &#8211; Israel and its arch foe Hezbollah are waging an increasingly heated war of words, fanning concerns about another bruising encounter between the two enemies who fought a devastating but inconclusive conflict in 2006.

In a keynote speech Friday night marking the third anniversary of that war&#8217;s end, Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah outlined his strategy for Lebanon to deter Israel from launching another offensive. Responding to Israeli threats to flatten southern Lebanese villages and infrastructure, he vowed to attack Tel Aviv if Israel targeted Beirut or ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb in Kabul targets NATO headquarters, near US Embassy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Militants managed to penetrate one of the safest nooks of Kabul to detonate a massive car bomb Saturday, shaking the confidence of voters just five days before presidential elections.
The powerful blast, for which the Taliban claimed responsibility, killed seven Afghan civilians and wounded 91 more. The bomb went off outside NATO headquarters just after 8:30 Saturday morning, the beginning of the Afghan workweek. It sent a plume of smoke visible around Kabul and knocked out glass windows more than 500 feet away.

The attackers managed to get past ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.war-news.net/eurasia/afghanistan-asia/bomb-in-kabul-targets-nato-headquarters-near-us-embassy/</link>
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		<title>Indonesian police examine remains for clues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indonesian police Saturday were studying DNA evidence from the remains of two suicide bombers who carried out twin attacks on luxury Jakarta hotels, as security was tightened across the country.
Suspected Islamist suicide bombers detonated powerful devices at the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels in an upmarket business district Friday, leaving nine dead and up to 50 injured including at least 18 foreigners.
A New Zealand businessman was confirmed dead and Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, who is due in Jakarta later Saturday, said he feared the worst for three missing Australians, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lankan civilian toll said up to 5,000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The civilian death toll during the final days of Sri Lanka&#8217;s civil war was between 3,000 and 5,000, a senior government official estimated Thursday.
Rajiva Wijesinha, permanent secretary in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, told a British newspaper, The Guardian, that earlier reports of many as 20,000 civilians being killed in the end stages of the years-long Tamil Tigers uprising were unverified and wrong.

&#8220;I would estimate it altogether at 3,000 to 5,000,&#8221; Wijesinha said, blaming the deaths on the rebels&#8217; use of refugees as human shields. &#8220;The ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.war-news.net/asia/sri-lanka/sri-lankan-civilian-toll-said-up-to-5000/</link>
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		<title>Palestinians differ on US promises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Palestinian Fatah has said it was &#8220;encouraged&#8221; by the meeting between Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and his US counterpart in the White House, while Hamas said the encounter would lead to nothing.
&#8220;Palestinians are encouraged by the commitment President Obama and his administration have shown to Middle East peace,&#8221; Saeb Erakat, a Fatah member and the Palestinians&#8217; top official said on Friday.

Erekat said the establishment of a viable Palestinian state and a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem would make the region more secure and stable.
But, he warned ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.war-news.net/conflicts/israeli%e2%80%93palestinian-conflict/palestinians-differ-on-us-promises/</link>
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		<title>Britain hopeful on U.N. action over North Korea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Britain said on Sunday it was hopeful the United Nations Security Council will deliver a resolution against North Korea that includes tougher financial sanctions, after the isolated state&#8217;s nuclear test last week.
&#8220;There is a genuine world concern, and hopefully a consensus will come from that,&#8221; Ann Taylor, British Minister for International Defense and Security, told Reuters in an interview on Sunday on the sidelines of a regional defense conference.

Britain joined the United States, Australia and East Asian defense ministers in condemning North Korea&#8217;s latest military moves at the Asia Security ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.war-news.net/asia/north-korea/britain-hopeful-on-un-action-over-north-korea/</link>
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		<title>Amnesty calls for probe of Sri Lanka civilian deaths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colombo &#8211; Amnesty International called Saturday for an independent probe into the number of civilians killed in the final weeks of Sri Lanka&#8217;s civil war and also urged the UN to reveal its own estimates.
The call by the rights group followed a report in the Times of London newspaper on Friday citing confidential UN reports that more than 20,000 civilians were killed by Sri Lankan army shelling.
The report followed weeks of allegations that large numbers of civilians had been killed as the army closed in on Tamil Tiger rebels to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.war-news.net/asia/sri-lanka/amnesty-calls-for-probe-of-sri-lanka-civilian-deaths/</link>
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		<title>Pakistan battles Taliban; Swat offensive near end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pakistani forces battled militants in South Waziristan on the Afghan border on Sunday as a government official said an offensive in the Swat valley could be over in two or three days.
Pakistani forces have undertaken their most concerted offensive against an expanding Taliban insurgency that has raised fears for the nuclear-armed U.S. ally&#8217;s stability and the safety of its nuclear arsenal.
The focus of the fighting has been the former tourist destination of Swat, 120 km (80 miles) northwest of Islamabad, which the Taliban virtually took as the government alternated ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.war-news.net/asia/pakistan/pakistan-battles-taliban-swat-offensive-near-end/</link>
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		<title>Bombs in Pakistan&#8217;s Peshawar, several casualties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Thursday for a suicide gun and bomb attack in the city of Lahore the previous day that killed 24 people and wounded nearly 300.
The government said the attack in a high-security area where a police headquarters, emergency services building and a military intelligence office are located, was revenge for an offensive against the Taliban in the Swat valley, northwest of Islamabad.

The army moved against the militants in the Swat region late last month after the Taliban had seized a district only 100 km (60 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.war-news.net/asia/pakistan/bombs-in-pakistans-peshawar-several-casualties/</link>
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