Italy and France announced new security measures Friday designed to combat terrorism following the recent London bombings . Although neither nation has been the target of Islamic terrorists, both have tightened security on transit systems and are investigating ways to crack down on militants and gather information. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announced "an increase [...]

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Western intelligence security services believe that Ratko Mladic , who has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes, is still being protected by covert members of the Serbia-Montenegro army and is "running rings around" intelligence agencies seeking to capture him, UPI reported Friday. Eurofor , a NATO-supported group [...]

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California Superior Court Judge Gail Ohanesian removed Proposition 77 , a redistricting plan by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , from the November 7 state ballot Thursday, holding that supporters violated California's constitution by using two significantly different versions during the qualifying process. Attorney General Bill Lockyer told the court that the version used to gather voter [...]

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Leading Friday's international brief, the main political opposition party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance , has called on South African President Thabo Mbeki to reject a request by Zimbabwean officials for financial aid to support the rapidly collapsing Zimbabwean economy. DA officials also called on Mbeki to formally denounce Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and [...]

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Senior magistrates in Spain's Audiencia Nacional, the country's primary terrorist court, say that they are contemplating refusing to extradite Spanish nationals to Germany after German officials refused to extradite and later released Mamoun Darkazanli , a German national and suspected al-Qaeda financier wanted in Spain on terrorist charges. Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) ruled [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday denied an appeal from convicted spy Jonathan Pollard to reduce the life sentence he received for selling classified documents to Israel while working as a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy. The court ruled that Pollard should have contested his 1987 [...]

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