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India special force to fight Maoists
Published: May 12, 2008 at 7:02 PM
NEW DELHI, May 12 (UPI) -- India's Interior Ministry is planning to set up a special action force to combat Maoist violence in the country. -
India border force foils infiltration bid
Published: May 12, 2008 at 4:21 PM
JAMMU, India, May 12 (UPI) -- Indian border guards say they killed two militants who crossed the border from Pakistan, took hostages and killed six people in a 13-hour shootout. -
Serbia backs pro-Western parties
Published: May 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM
BELGRADE, Serbia, May 12 (UPI) -- Western observers are relieved because of the victory of pro-EU parties in the general elections in Serbia.
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Atlantic Eye: Of kings and kingmakers
Published: May 12, 2008 at 3:05 PM
By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN
UPI International Columnist
BLOIS, France, May 12 (UPI) -- Lord Holme of Cheltenham was the former chairman of the British Liberal Party -- a classic European free-market oriented, centrist party. He was chair of the English College Foundation in Prague, where we became friends. To his enemies, he spent 30 years as the phantom behind the scenes, the kingmaker. A member of Global Panel America's Advisory Board, he lost his fight to brain cancer last week. -
Homeland security: The week ahead
Published: May 12, 2008 at 1:37 PM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- This week the continuing saga of the Democratic primaries means that presidential politics is likely to dominate the news agenda again. But there are some issues and events on the homeland and national security issue list that might make the inside pages. -
Analysis: Hezbollah guns mightier than pen
Published: May 12, 2008 at 12:25 PM
By CLAUDE SALHANI
UPI Contributing Editor
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- Lebanon has always been a country that has stood out from the rest of the Middle East for a number of reasons -- primarily because Lebanon consistently has been a country of many contradictions. -
Walker's World: Georgia on my mind
Published: May 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM
By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor Emeritus
FRANKFURT, Germany, May 12 (UPI) -- Russia's new leadership is bullying Georgia because the Europeans and Americans are at odds; at risk is the only pipeline from the vast Caspian oil basin that is not under Russia's control. -
Analysis: Terror lexicon reveals GOP split
Published: May 12, 2008 at 9:53 AM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- The leak of Bush administration guidelines urging U.S. officials to avoid using terms such as "jihadi" or "Islamic terrorists" to refer to al-Qaida and similar groups has exposed a fault line in Republican thinking about the U.S. war on terror. -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 9, 2008 at 7:59 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The Kurdish Al Ahali newspaper Friday carried an editorial with the title "Between the official delegations to Iran and the statements from the government's spokesman," by Heval Zakhori.
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Iraqi security forces arrest militants
Published: March 25, 2008 at 7:12 PM
BAGHDAD, March 25 (UPI) -- Iraqi and U.S.-led forces uncovered a large weapons cache and arrested several suspected militants in raids throughout the country.
An Iraqi police unit operating alongside U.S.-led forces arrested a suspect believed to be behind several roadside bombs in the city of Hashimiyah located roughly 120 miles south of Baghdad.
The U.S. military said in the release reporting the incident the cache contained several mortar rounds and rocket propelled grenades, 200 pounds of C-4 explosives and 20 Katyusha rockets.
A separate raid by Iraqi police operating in Karbala Tuesday resulted in the arrest of 15 suspects that local police officials said "fled Basra after waging the recent security plan," Voices of Iraq reported.
The Karbala police chief, Gen. Raed Jawdat, said his security forces stepped up security measures in the face of the outbreak of violence in southern Iraq.
Meanwhile, Iraqi security forces in Baghdad arrested 16 suspects and dismantled some 10 bombs under a security plan called Fardh al-Qanoon, which means "enforce the law" in Arabic.
Baghdad police officials told VOI several of the men were suspected gunmen.
An Iraqi police unit operating alongside U.S.-led forces arrested a suspect believed to be behind several roadside bombs in the city of Hashimiyah located roughly 120 miles south of Baghdad.
The U.S. military said in the release reporting the incident the cache contained several mortar rounds and rocket propelled grenades, 200 pounds of C-4 explosives and 20 Katyusha rockets.
A separate raid by Iraqi police operating in Karbala Tuesday resulted in the arrest of 15 suspects that local police officials said "fled Basra after waging the recent security plan," Voices of Iraq reported.
The Karbala police chief, Gen. Raed Jawdat, said his security forces stepped up security measures in the face of the outbreak of violence in southern Iraq.
Meanwhile, Iraqi security forces in Baghdad arrested 16 suspects and dismantled some 10 bombs under a security plan called Fardh al-Qanoon, which means "enforce the law" in Arabic.
Baghdad police officials told VOI several of the men were suspected gunmen.
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