Posts Tagged Military and defense

Homeland Security to up presence in Four Corners

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations in New Mexico said it plans to increase its presence in New Mexico’s Four Corners region to counter to growing influences of Mexican drug cartels in the area.

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US, NKorea to hold first post-Kim Jong Il talks

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Affairs Glyn Davies speaks to journalists upon arrival at a hotel in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. The U.S. and North Korea reopen nuclear talks Thursday that will provide a glimpse into where Pyongyang's opaque government is heading after Kim Jong Il's death and test its readiness to dismantle nuclear programs for much-needed aid. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. and North Korea reopen nuclear talks Thursday that will provide a glimpse into where Pyongyang’s opaque government is heading after Kim Jong Il’s death and test its readiness to dismantle nuclear programs for much-needed aid.

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Iran says UN nuke inspectors will not visit sites

VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency on Wednesday acknowledged its renewed failure in trying to probe suspicions that Tehran has worked secretly on atomic arms, in a statement issued shortly after an Iranian general warned of a pre-emptive strike against any nation that threatens Iran.

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Israelis fear homefront vulnerable to Iran attacks

In this Monday, May, 10, 2010 file photo, a view of Tel Aviv, Israel. Despite its confident saber-rattling, there are growing concerns in Israel that the country may be catastrophically vulnerable to counterstrike if it attacks Iran's nuclear program. A rocket-defense system is being thrown up in Tel Aviv, where Israel's sprawling military headquarters sits smack in the middle of office towers, art museums, nightlife districts and tourist hotels. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Despite its confident saber-rattling, Israel’s concern is growing that the country is vulnerable to a devastating counterstrike if it attacks Iran’s nuclear program.

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Israel top court takes Palestinian detainee appeal

A Palestinian woman participates in a protest in solidarity with Khader Adnan, 33, a senior member of Islamic Jihad jailed in Israel who has been on hunger strike for 65 days, and calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel, in  the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012.  Adnan, 33, is on a hunger strike to protest what he says is humiliation that he faces in Israel's military justice system. He is in poor condition and under guard at an Israeli hospital. He is being held in "administrative detention," under which an Israeli military judge can imprison Palestinians for six-month periods without charge.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has brought forward a hearing this week on the appeal of a Palestinian prisoner waging an unprecedented two-month hunger strike, court officials and his lawyers said Monday.

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