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WikiLeaks founder says he’s been targeted by smear campaign

Source: CNN.com WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange said Swedish authorities reached "the height of irresponsibility" by issuing an arrest warrant alleging rape against him, then revoking it less than a day later. "It is clearly a smear campaign," Assange told Arabic news network Al-Jazeera in a live telephone interview Sunday. "… The only question [...]

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Spy links with CIA suicide bomber are problem for Jordan

Jordan is showing signs of deep embarrassment at revelations about the role of its intelligence service in “running” the al-Qaida triple agent who killed seven CIA officers and his own handler in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan last week.

Last weekend, King Abdullah and his wife Rania attended the funeral of Captain Ali Bin Zeid, the case [...]

Jordanian double-agent killed CIA officers

The suicide bombing on a CIA base in Afghanistan last week was carried out by a Jordanian doctor who was an al-Qaida double agent, Western intelligence officials told NBC News.

Initial reports said that the attack, which killed seven CIA officers, was carried out by a member of the Afghan National Army.

According to Western intelligence officials, the [...]

Leaders meet to elect EU president

Experts have said the president should be a technocrat who can provide unity and build consensus among the EU’s main institutions – the council of nations for the 27 member states, the European Commission and the European parliament.

Glyn Ford, a former Labour MEP, told Al Jazeera that building a political presence in Europe was one of [...]

Israel launches deadly Gaza attacks

Source: guardian.co.uk
Scores of Palestinians have been killed and hundreds of others injured in a series of Israeli missile attacks on targets in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
More than 120 people were killed and 200 wounded in the air strikes, the head of the Gaza ambulance service was quoted as saying by al-Jazeera television.
Television footage showed [...]