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Mideast Saudi Swine flu Hajj

AP News 6 hours ago

A Saudi Arabian Health Ministry employee, right, is administered a swine flu vaccine during the launch of a swine flu vaccine campaign in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Saudi Arabia's health minister said Saturday the kingdom will not ban anyone ...

Iran to reject UN-brokered nuclear plan: leading MP

AFP Global Edition 7 hours ago

Iran has decided to turn down proposals from the major powers for the supply of nuclear fuel, a leading member of parliament said on Saturday, in a serious setback for UN-brokered efforts to allay Western concerns about its ambitions. Under the plan ...

US: More foreign troops certain in new Afghan plan

AP News 7 hours ago

US defense official forecasts foreign troop increase in Afghanistan as new plan takes shape A top Pentagon official says President Barack Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan will be certain to include reinforcements of foreign troops from both the United States and allied ...

Analysis: 10 percent jobless is Obama's new world

AP News 7 hours ago

Analysis: New jobless threshold raises stakes for Obama, Democrats For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent. A year after his election Obama finds it increasingly ...

Russia's Medvedev leaves door open to Iran sanctions

Reuters US Online Report World News 7 hours ago

BERLIN (Reuters) - Sanctions against Iran should not be ruled out if it fails to agree to restrictions on its nuclear program, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told German weekly magazine Der Spiegel in an interview. Russia's ties with Iran, which include oil ...

UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan

AP News 7 hours ago

UN: Hundreds of staffers to temporarily leave Afghanistan, but exact number not determined The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct. 28 attack that killed five of its workers, but ...

Industry pioneers

SC Magazine 8 hours ago

There have been countless professionals who have helped shape the information security industry - whether through regulations, technological innovation, policy and standards creation and more. This is our (alphabetical) list of just some of those individuals who played crucial roles over these ...

Iran refuses to send enriched uranium abroad: MP

AFP Global Edition 9 hours ago

Iran is refusing to send its low-enriched uranium abroad for further processing, the influential head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee was quoted as saying on Saturday. "We do not want to give part of our 1,200 kilos of enriched ...

Iran lawmakers: No shipment of uranium abroad

AP Features 9 hours ago

Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether. Prominent conservative lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran won't ship its low enriched uranium abroad in ...

House poised for historic vote

Las Vegas Sun 10 hours ago

After six months of angry debate, one final bill ready for roll call WASHINGTON The long, national health care debate is about to come to an end, at least in one chamber of Congress. But it is not drawing to a close ...

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