Police got tactics wrong: Cameron

1,300 Held For Rioting

UK RIOTS

London, Aug 11: Prime Minister David Cameron Thursday said police had admitted to getting their riot tactics wrong as over 1,300 people were arrested for the violence in which hooded youths looted shops and set buildings ablaze in parts of England earlier this week. Addressing the House of More

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Millionaire's daughter, postman among London looters

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London, Aug 11:  From a charity worker to a postman to a millionaire's daughter -- all appeared in courts in London to answer charges over the riots that have plagued parts of England this week, a media report said on Thursday.While the trouble has been largely blamed on teenagers, many of More

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Probe sought into White House role in Osama movie

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Washington, Aug 11: A top Republican lawmaker has demanded an investigation into a report that the White House is cooperating with a film on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. In a letter Wednesday to the defence department and the CIA, House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King More

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Syrian forces kill 17 in Homs as outrage mounts

Damascus, Aug 10: Syrian security forces shot dead 17 people in the protest hub of Homs today, while withdrawing from the city of Hama, as Washington turned up the heat on embattled President Bashar al-Assad. Yesterday, a defiant Assad had pledged to pursue a relentless battle against "terrorist More

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UK may intercept social media during crisis

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London, Aug 11: Britain is likely to assume powers to intercept messages through social media such as Blackberry Messenger, Facebook and Twitter during times of crisis so that such messages are disrupted. Setting out measures to prevent the kind of disturbances London and other cities witnessed More

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New software to access blocked websites

Washington, Aug 11: Scientists have developed a new system by which you will now be able to access blocked internet websites. This radical new approach could render internet virtually impervious to any kind of censorship by the government. The system, called Telex, is the brainchild of computer More

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Russia destroys half of its chemical weapons

Moscow, Aug 11: Russia has destroyed more than half of its stockpile of chemical weapons and the remainder would be gone by 2015, a senior official said Wednesday. Some 21,000 tonnes of chemical weapons have been destroyed, Vasily Bogomolov, deputy director of the Federal Special Construction More

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Israel to build 1,600 more settler homes

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Jerusalem, Aug 11: Israel's interior minister has given final approval for the construction of 1,600 new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem, his spokesman said. Eli Yishai will also approve 2,700 more homes shortly, Roei Lachmanovich, the spokesman, told the AFP news agency on Thursday More

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