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News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 45
CANADA: Hunt for Oil Patch Bomber Takes New Twist
- Inter Press Service
Looking increasingly desperate after a 15-month-long hunt for a saboteur who has blown up six natural gas installations in northern Canada, police arrested an outspoken oil industry critic and then set him free a day later without pressing charges.
POLITICS: U.S. Citizens View Obama as Strong on Security
- Inter Press Service
Opinion polls by two major U.S. television networks show that the majority of the country's citizens have faith in President Barack Obama's ability to protect them from 'future acts of terrorism'.
U.S.: World's Most Controversial Prison Enters Ninth Year
- Inter Press Service
As the world marked the beginning of the ninth year of detention at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on Monday, a leading legal advocacy group filed suit against the Library of Congress for firing Guantanamo's former chief prosecutor for writing articles criticising the use of military commissions to try suspected terrorists.
RIGHTS-US: Afghan Prisoners Challenge Indefinite Detention
- Inter Press Service
While the unsuccessful attempt to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas day captured the headlines and put major political roadblocks in the path of prisoner release from Guantanamo Bay, the courts — far more quietly - continued to play a major role in influencing the detention issue.
RIGHTS: Groups Protest 'Profiling' at U.S. Airports
- Inter Press Service
Civil liberties advocates and organisations representing Muslims believe the Barack Obama administration's decision to require extra scrutiny for travelers to the U.S. from 14 predominantly Islamic countries will lead to practices that are discriminatory and ineffective.
MEDIA-US: Afghanistan Dominated TV Foreign News in 2009
- Inter Press Service
Afghanistan and the U.S. military escalation in the civil war there dominated foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks in 2009, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
YEMEN: U.S. Poised to Increase Aid
- Inter Press Service
In the wake of a botched Christmas Day airliner bombing claimed by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the direction of what used to be called the 'global war on terror' settled on Yemen this week, with the United States slated to escalate economic and military assistance to the country's beleaguered government.
POLITICS: Russia, China Sustain Military Toehold in Yemen
- Inter Press Service
Russia has stolen a march over the United States in the multi-million-dollar arms market in cash-strapped Yemen, whose weapons purchases are being funded mostly by neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
RIGHTS-US: Yemeni Detainees Caught in Bomb Backlash
- Inter Press Service
In the wake of the failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas day, legal experts and human rights advocates are pushing back against calls from politicians to halt the planned release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to their home country, Yemen.
POLITICS: U.S. Arms Feed Yemen's Gun Culture
- Inter Press Service
When Yemen refused to vote in support of a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution against Iraq during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a visibly angry U.S. delegate turned to the Yemeni diplomat and said: 'That will be the last time you will ever vote against a U.S. resolution.'
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