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Iran defiant as US unleashes new sanctions
AFP, Published on 01/01/2012
» Iran defiantly announced on Sunday that it had tested a new missile and made an advance in its nuclear programme after the United States unleashed extra sanctions that sent its currency to a record low.
Romney on top of fluid Iowa race
AFP, Published on 01/01/2012
» Mitt Romney held a slim lead Sunday atop the field of Republican presidential hopefuls in Iowa, going into a two-day campaign blitz before the state casts the first votes of the US election season.
US opens 'virtual embassy' to enter Iran
AFP, Published on 07/12/2011
» The United States opened a virtual online embassy Tuesday to reach out to Iranians despite the absence of official ties, vowing to break through the Islamic regime's "electronic curtain."
Egyptian jailed for Facebook Islam insult
AFP, Published on 22/10/2011
» An Egyptian court sentenced a man to three years in jail with hard labour on Saturday for insulting Islam in postings on Facebook, the official MENA news agency reported.
Pentagon: All options on table in cyber-attack
AFP, Published on 01/06/2011
» The Pentagon said that it would consider all options if the United States were hit by a cyber-attack as it develops the first military guidelines for the age of Internet warfare.
(Thursday update) Osama bin Laden
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 05/05/2011
» It looks like the only photo of the dead Osama bin Laden to be released will be the faked photoshopped version we have already seen.
Turks defy book ban on Internet
AFP, Published on 01/04/2011
» A draft book banned as part of a controversial coup probe in Turkey has been published online, prompting a prosecutor to launch a fresh investigation, media reports said Friday.
Israel tested Stuxnet on Iran, with US help: report
AFP, Published on 17/01/2011
» US and Israeli intelligence services collaborated to develop a destructive computer worm to sabotage Iran's efforts to make a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Indonesians embrace new media for old debates
AFP, Published on 20/12/2010
» To most Indonesians, Ahmad Mustofa Bisri is an influential Muslim cleric and a respected figure from the country's biggest Islamic organisation, the moderate Nahdlatul Ulama.