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Relief agency: Morocco abandons migrants (AP)

September 30th, 2010

AP - Doctors Without Borders says Morocco has expelled hundreds of illegal immigrants, including women and children, to a no-man’s-land without food or water after violent raids in several cities…

Diplomats: Iran seeks seat on UN nuke agency board (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

The Bushehr nuclear reactor in southern Iran. The US and Iranian leaders have taken their rivalry to the UN General Assembly after six world powers said they were seeking an AP - Diplomats say Iran is seeking a seat on the decision-making board of the same U.N. nuclear agency probing its activities for evidence that Tehran may be interested in…

UN nuke agency warns monitoring of Iran hampered (AP)

September 6th, 2010

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.br /<br /></a> Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wait for his arrival at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport May 5, 2010. REUTERS/Morteza NikoubazlAP - In an unusually blunt warning, the U.N. atomic agency said Monday that its monitoring of Iran’s nuclear activities is being hampered because Tehran objects to giving some agency…

Russia grants more powers to KGB successor agency (AP)

July 29th, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (pictured) has signed into a law a bill expanding the powers of the successor to the Soviet-era KGB security service, the Kremlin said in a statement. The bill, criticised by rights groups, would allow the Federal Security Service to issue official warnings to individuals whose actions are deemed to be creating the conditions for crime.(AFP/File/Alexey Panov)AP - Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev.


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Medvedev widens powers of KGB successor agency (AP)

July 29th, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (pictured) has signed into a law a bill expanding the powers of the successor to the Soviet-era KGB security service, the Kremlin said in a statement. The bill, criticised by rights groups, would allow the Federal Security Service to issue official warnings to individuals whose actions are deemed to be creating the conditions for crime.(AFP/File/Alexey Panov)AP - Russia has broadened the authority of the Federal Security Service, the KGB’s main successor agency, giving it Soviet-style repressive powers in a move critics say could be used…

European Space Agency looking closely at asteroid (AP)

July 10th, 2010

Spacecraft Operations Manager Andrea Accomazzo controls the Rosetta asteroid mission at the Space Operations Centre of ESA (European Space Agency) in Darmstadt, Germany, on Saturday, July 10, 2010. ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser is on the way to its main target, the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, arriving in 2014. On this Saturday it will fly past the asteroid Lutetia, observing and sending data and pictures.  (AP  Photo/dapd/Mario Vedder)AP - The European Space Agency has taken the closest look yet at asteroid Lutetia in an extraordinary quest some 280 million miles in outer space between Mars and Jupiter.


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Dutch agency admits mistake in UN climate report (AP)

July 5th, 2010

An iron ore mine is seen in Australia's Pilbara region. Australian prime minister Julia Gillard's maiden speech as leader singled out the three issues likely to be election flashpoints: the mining tax, climate change and the steady flow of asylum-seekers from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Amy Coopes)AP - A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday…

Nuclear agency set to focus on Israel (AP)

May 8th, 2010

AP - Israel’s secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for…

APNewsBreak: Nuclear agency set to focus on Israel (AP)

May 7th, 2010

AP - Israel’s secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for…

UN food agency welcomes any probe into Somalia aid (AP)

March 11th, 2010

AP - A U.N. food agency said Thursday it will cooperate with any independent probe into its food operations in Somalia, after a report found that up to half the…