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How Japanese-Americans were interned during the World War II is widely known, but few Americans realise hundreds of Alaskan natives suffered a similar fate, being forced from homes on the Aleutian and Pribilof islands when Japan's forces invaded
The official Xinhua news agency said police fired into a mob of explosives-lobbing protesters after being blockaded near Shanwei city. Hundreds of armed villagers had earlier attacked them in a "serious violation of the law"
Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, has died. Murtha reloaded?
Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
Allows law enforcement to continue access to a wealth of personal data, including library and medical records, ability to conduct warantless roving wiretaps involving multiple phones, to get access to many personal records, sneek in search warrants
ACLU: "This kind of surveillance of First Amendment activities has serious consequences. Law-abiding Americans may be reluctant to speak out when doing so means that their names will wind up in an FBI file."
Assuming that McClellan's assessment is correct, and the summary execution of Mr. Alpizar by the tax-fattened drones grandly styled “air marshals” was carried out according to federal “protocols,” we no longer need to wonder whether terrorist sle
While some Europeans are lobbing hard questions at Condoleeza Rice about secret interrogations of terror suspects, their own governments may not want to push the issue too far. Some European governments were informed of the CIA flight operations befo
A United Nations official has said a U.S. military base in the Kosovo region is the site of a secret prison. Talking about Camp Bondsteel in eastern Kosovo, U.N. Ombudsman Marek Nowicki told the German daily Berliner Zeitung
Before Sept. 11, bin Laden’s speeches were not hard to find, but fear of being labeled pro-terrorist have kept many Islamic and Arab scholars from publishing his words in recent years. "if you want to reflect on the chilling effect that we are n
Iran's top nuclear official said that his country will enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel despite the U.S.-led international campaign to persuade it to abandon such ambitions.
Residents of a southern Chinese village near Hong Kong where police opened fire on demonstrators described a tense standoff in the area with thousands of armed troops patrolling the perimeter and blocking anyone from leaving.
Most Americans carry cellphones, but many may not know that government agencies can track their movements through the signals emanating from the handset.
The U.S. government, in an unusual retreat, urged a federal appeals court on Friday to set aside its ruling that allowed the United States to hold an American citizen as an enemy combatant without being charged.
The government has been accused of covering up the sale of 20 tonnes of heavy water to Israel for its nuclear programme in the early 1950s. The UK knew the ingredient it sold to Norway would be subsequently sold on to Israel for nuclear weapons.
Running battles at dozens of polling places were waged between voters and tens of thousands of riot police deployed to deter them. Riot police firing rubber bullets and tear gas, and beating voters, as civilians threw rocks in response
Although security forces often use tear gas and truncheons to disperse demonstrators, it is extremely rare for them to fire into a crowd — as they did in putting down pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 near Tiananmen Square. Hundreds, if not thousa
"The first time I heard the word 'bomb' was when I was interviewed by the FBI," McAlhany said. "They kept asking if I heard him say the B-word. And I said, 'What is the B-word?' And they were like, 'Bomb.' I sa
The United States told Saudi Arabia more than three years before the September 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden might be targeting civilian airplanes, according to a newly declassified State Department cable.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said the international community was losing patience with Iran over its nuclear program but cautioned against using military action.
Yahoo! is offering free PC-to-PC calls among Yahoo users in 180 countries. This offering will link with existing Yahoo e-mail and instant messaging features.
Officers involved in the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube could face charges. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it was "likely" to send its report to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider.
A U.S. investigation into allegations that the American military is buying positive coverage in the Iraqi media has expanded to examine a press club founded and financed by the U.S. Army.
Gen. Hugh Shelton has confirmed that four years before the 2001 attacks, he authorized a secret computer data-mining initiative to track down Osama bin Laden and operatives in al-Qaida.
Framed as if on a movie screen by the outline of a sport-utility vehicle's rear window, those scenes and others show what appear to be private security contractors firing on Iraqi civilians. The video footage has prompted an investigation by the
Poland was the heart of the CIA's secret detention network in Europe, with bases there until recently holding a quarter of the 100 detainees estimated held in such camps worldwide, a human rights group said.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado said it will release documents today that show FBI agents improperly spied on peaceful protesters in Colorado Springs in the name of combating terrorism.
Federal authorities hit with a stunning defeat in a terrorism case against an acquitted former Florida college professor are considering deporting him instead of retrying him. Al-Arian, 47, remains in jail, where he has been since his 2003 indictment
Iraqis are coming to fear those bands of men in masks who seem to operate with the Iraqi police. Omar Ahmed's family learned what it can mean to run into the police, their supposed protectors.
