Egypt TV show stirs debate over Muslim Brotherhood (AP)

In this Dec.10, 2006 picture masked Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood students perform a military show inside their al-Azhar university campus in Cairo, Egypt. Centered on a 2009 court case in which the Brotherhood was accused of setting up a student militia, a TV miniseries airing in Egypt that casts a harsh light on the country's largest opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, plot weaves through in flashbacks decades long confrontations between Egypt's various governments and the group. Arabic on their masks read 'We're holding on'. (AP Photo)AP - The bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyles and values. His followers beat up an opponent.


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US, SKorea to hold further naval drills (AP)

South Korean and US national flags are seen aboard the flight deck of the Nimitz-class USS George Washington for joint military exercises between the US and South Korea in July, 2010. About ten warships or submarines will join upcoming naval exercises between the two nations aimed at deterring North Korea following its alleged attack on a Seoul corvette, officials have said.(AFP/Pool/File/Lee Jin-Man)AP - South Korea and the United States will hold joint anti-submarine exercises in another show of force against North Korea, officials said Friday, as Pyongyang renewed threats against the drills.


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Mexican army kills 25 drug suspects near U.S. border

Soldiers stand next to weapons seized at a warehouse after a gunfight Thursday with purported drug gang members at a northeastern Mexico ranch near the U.S. border.At least 25 drug suspects were killed Thursday in a gunfight with the Mexican army near the U.S. border, military sources said.


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Mexican Soldiers Kill 25 In Gunbattle Near Border

Troops were patrolling in the town of General Trevino around noon when they came under fire from a ranch allegedly controlled by the Zetas drug gang, according to a military spokesman who was not authorized to be quoted by name.

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Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in gunbattle near border (AP)

AP - A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug cartel members in northeastern Mexico left 25 purported gunmen dead Thursday, the military said.
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Army: Chaplain is 1st killed in action since ’70

The first Army chaplain to be killed in action since Vietnam, died this week in Afghanistan, military officials said Thursday.
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News of the World faces fresh phone hacking charge

Source: The Guardian

The government tonight came under pressure to set up a judicial inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World after the paper confirmed that it has suspended a journalist while it investigates new allegations of the unlawful of voicemail.

The prime minister’s , Andy Coulson, has denied a report in the which claimed he freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques when he was editing the paper and “actively encouraged” a named reporter to engage in illegal of voicemail messages. Coulson has always denied knowing of any illegal activity by his journalists.

Scotland Yard, too, found itself in the firing line after the quoted unnamed detectives alleging they had cut short their investigation because of their close relationship with the News of the World. A group of four public figures, including former deputy prime minister John Prescott, is poised to sue police over a failure to warn them they had been targeted by the at the centre of the scandal, Glenn Mulcaire.

The Guardian has learned that the Metropolitan at the time of the original investigation, Sir Ian Blair, was among those whose names were found in material seized from Mulcaire, raising questions about whether officers who were directly involved in the investigation had discovered that they, too, had been targets of the newspaper.

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Russia reveals blow-up army

CNN's Matthew Chance reports on why the Russian military is blowing up its own tanks.
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Gates: Taliban reconciliation holds promise

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan Thursday to consult with political and military officials.
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Gen. Petraeus calls relationship with Karzai sound (AP)

A U.S. Air Force ground staff member signals to the pilot of an A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter-jet from the 81st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron before take-off for a mission over Kandahar province, Kandahar Air Field, September 2, 2010. REUTERS/Oleg Popov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY)AP - The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the sometimes strained relationship between the US and Afghan President Hamid Karzai is solid.


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