Featured Global Security News Stories
Americas
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Mexico
Today
The federal government would consider using "measured" force only as a last resort to end four months of unrest in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal said in comments published Thursday.
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East Asia / Pacific
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China
Today
Corrupt plunder of state assets was the worst threat facing China, the top national auditor said in a report today as Shanghai sought to recover from a corruption scandal that has shaken the financial hub.
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East Asia / Pacific
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Indonesia
Today
Factories that once produced watches and shoes lie under a sea of thick, stinking mud. Villagers stand on hastily constructed dams and gaze at the thousands of homes swallowed by brown sludge.
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East Asia / Pacific
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Vietnam
Today
Authorities in Vietnam prepared to evacuate coastal areas before the arrival of Typhoon Xangsane, which was gathering strength over the South China Sea after killing at least 16 people in the Philippines.
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Europe
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Spain
Today
Security services have found no evidence of any links between the Basque terrorist group ETA and the Madrid train bombings.
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Middle East / N. Africa
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Iraq
Today
Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader, in a chilling audiotape released Thursday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a blind Egyptian sheik who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison.
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Middle East / N. Africa
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Israel
Today
At least one person has died in a explosion in a car in the Israeli town of Rishon Letzion south of Tel Aviv, Israeli rescue services said. Several people were injured in the blast, ambulance services said.
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South / Central Asia
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Pakistan
Today
Pakistan has been accused of detaining hundreds of alleged terror suspects without legal process by human rights organisation Amnesty International.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
Today
Pressure is mounting on the European Union peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo to stay on well after an October 29 presidential run-off, to head off the risk of violence in the aftermath of the vote.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Today
Toxic waste has been discovered at 18 sites in Abidjan, but is not dangerous unless touched.
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