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Deadly Karachi blast targets security forces
The Pakistani Taliban-orchestrated attack killed at least three in a residential quarters of paramilitary group.
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Attacks in Libya target security forces
Attacks in Benghazi and Tripoli leave at least eight wounded, including three policemen.
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Lebanon tense after bomb kills security chief
Prime minister says he will remain in his post, as protests over anti-Syrian official’s killing erupt in several cities.
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Top security official among 8 dead in Beirut blast
BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful car bomb tore through the heart of Beirut’s Christian sector Friday, killing a top security official and seven others in a devastating attack that threatened to bring the war in Syria directly to Lebanon’s doorstep.…
Senior security official killed in Lebanon bombing
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run media says a senior security official was killed in Friday’s car bomb attack in Beirut.
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Top security official killed in Lebanon blast
Head of information branch of the security services, Wissam al-Hassan, among eight dead in Beirut car bombing.
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Beirut car bomb kills top security official
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A huge car bomb explosion in Beirut on Friday killed a top Lebanese security official whose investigations implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri seven years ago.
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Rwanda admitted to UN Security Council
Victory comes despite claims by UN expert panel about the country’s involvement in a rebellion in neighbouring DR Congo.
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Clinton says consulate security her responsibility
LIMA, Peru (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking responsibility for security at the U.S. consulate in Libya where an attack by extremists last month killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
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Turkish premier slams Security Council over Syria
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end Syria’s civil war, as NATO ally Germany backed the Turkish interception of a Damascus-bound passenger jet…
Turkey hits at Security Council over Syria
Premier rebukes UN body and warns that its inaction risks repeating the mistakes that led to massacres of civilians in Bosnia in the 1990s
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US embassy security chief killed in Yemen
Qassem Aqlani, Yemeni head of security at the US embassy in Sanaa, shot dead on way to work by motorcycle gunman.
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Ex-head of military team in Libya: security weak
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former head of a 16-member U.S. military team in Libya said Wednesday the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, never had the forces it needed to protect itself.
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Tight Athens security for Merkel
Security levels are raised in the Greek capital ahead a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her first since the eurozone crisis erupted nearly three years ago.
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Egyptian security forces die in road accident
At least 21 police officers killed and 25 wounded after driver loses control of vehicle near Egyptian-Israeli border.
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US security warning over China telecom firms
House Intelligence Committee says US companies should avoid doing business with China’s two leading technology firms.
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US panel: China tech giants pose security threat
WASHINGTON (AP) — American companies should avoid doing business with China’s two leading technology firms because they pose a national security threat to the United States, the House Intelligence Committee is warning in a report to be issued Monday.
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Argentine security forces protest pay cuts
Thousands of coast guards and military police hold unprecedented protests across the country over severe pay cuts.
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US: Envoys’ security requests in Libya denied
Congress leaders say pleas for extra security for embassy staff in city of Benghazi were ignored by Washington.
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