Syrian troops have pounded Aleppo to thwart a rebel advance in Syria’s second city as actress Angelina Jolie visited a Jordanian camp for refugees.
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/ 30 January 2012
A French project featuring a range of anti-piracy features, including sound blasts, has been unveiled at a shipping security forum in Nantes.
Gadaffi’s forces shelled Ajdabiya in Libya on Friday, as Nato expressed regret at the deaths caused by an alliance air strike on rebel tank
In the barren, rocky landscape of the West Bank in the northern Jordan Valley, Yossi Hazut and his family, expelled from Israeli settlements in Gaza, dream of reconstructing their Zionist dream. Last week, the Israeli government approved this site at Maskiot to become the first new Israeli settlement to be authorised in the occupied Palestinian territories since 1992.
It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts. The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced, widely available — and, experts say, virtually unstoppable.
In his office in Peshawar’s historic Mohabat Khan mosque, prayer leader Maulana Yousaf Qureshi smoothes his beard from the white roots to the henna-orange tips. "There’s no time limit. If someone kills the cartoonist in 50 years he will still get the million dollars," he says.
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/ 13 January 2006
The far-flung jihadist movement, much like the United States-led world economy it seeks to disrupt, is undergoing a rapid globalisation, evolving into a nebulous and loosely knit network more dangerous than what remains of al-Qaeda, international security experts say.