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SECURITY DEVICE NEWS
Democrats hope the GOP's privatization fixation will become a cutting issue in 2010
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NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's flagship outsourcing industry reacted angrily Saturday to a new US law tightening security at the Mexico border with measures paid for by steep hikes in American work visa fees.
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India's flagship outsourcing industry reacted angrily Saturday to a new US law tightening security at the Mexico border with measures paid for by steep hikes in American work visa fees.The 600-million-dollar legislation, signed into law Friday by US President Barack Obama, will nearly double visa fees for some Indian information technology workers entering the United States.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces killed a suspected leader of the militant group Fatah al-Islam on Saturday in a shootout near the border with Syria, security sources said.
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CQPolitics.com - Dovetailing their efforts with the Democratic Party's midterm elections strategy, Americans United for Change is dispatching staff and resources to battleground states in what appears to be a shoestring effort to paint Republicans as seeking to destroy Social Security and Medicare.
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Gunmen killed a Yemeni intelligence officer in the flashpoint southern province of Lahij, a security official said on Saturday."Armed men ambushed the chief of the Lahij intelligence service's investigations department, Colonel Ali Abdul Kareem al-Ban, who was killed in a hail of bullets," the official told AFP.The attack took place on Friday evening in Hamra village near the town of Hutah where security forces were swiftly deployed, witnesses said.
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There has been an explosion in a bin during a security alert in Lurgan, County Armagh.
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There has been an explosion in a bin during a security alert in Lurgan, County Armagh.
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Nationalist protests have been staged as a loyal order parade passed a sectarian trouble spot in Belfast.
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Smugglers and Egyptian police have shot dead six Eritrean migrants in incidents near the border with Israel, a security official in Egypt said on Saturday.The deadly clashes took place late on Friday after the migrants seized the weapons of the people traffickers in a bid to escape, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.He said four Eritreans -- three men and a woman -- were killed in an exchange of fire between the migrants and smugglers, and police shot dead two Eritreans from the same group as they tried to cross illegally into Israel.
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There have been nationalist protests as a loyal order parade passed a sectarian flashpoint in Belfast.
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Petrol bombs are thrown at police officers investigating a security alert in Londonderry in the early hours of Saturday.
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AP - President Barack Obama used the anniversary of Social Security to trumpet Democrats' support for the popular program and accuse Republicans of trying to destroy it.
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Tens of thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers patrolled the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir as security was tightened across most parts of the region today a day after government forces killed four people during protests against Indian rule.
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AP - President Barack Obama is using the anniversary of Social Security to trumpet Democrats' support for the popular program and accuse Republicans of trying to destroy it.
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Five homes are evacuated in Dunmurry as army bomb experts investigate a suspicious object after a bomb warning.
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Petrol bombs have been thrown at police officers investigating a security alert in Londonderry in the early hours of Saturday.
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A bomb found by a gas station near the Ankara Police Department’s riot division on Friday was defused by a bomb squad right before it was set to explode.
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Two policemen were shot dead and their bodies set ablaze at a Baghdad checkpoint on Saturday while two of their colleagues and an anti-Qaeda fighter were also killed, an interior ministry official said.Insurgents shot the two policemen as they sat in their car in eastern Baghdad, the official said, and then set it on fire, while two others were killed by silenced pistols at a checkpoint in the west of the Iraqi capital.Saturday's incident was the third time in two weeks that members of the security forces' bodies have been burned after being killed by insurgents.
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Concern is growing about President Hamid Karzai’s ability to deliver a credible election in September, a crucial sign of security and a legitimate government.
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