BRITISH and US intelligence services are at loggerheads, with London rejecting claims that information about the Detroit bomber and other men considered to be terrorist risks was not sent to America.
In a break from protocol, the British Prime Minister's office publicly claimed that Britain had informed the US of the extremist links of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian man charged with attempting to blow up an American aircraft on Christmas Day.
The extremely unusual move could be seen as an attempt to rebuff criticism from senior US figures who claimed Britain had nurtured Islamist extremism.
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A SUICIDE bomber has killed at least 93 people after targeting a crowd gathered for a volleyball game in an attack on a community in north-western Pakistan that has repeatedly defied Taliban extremists.
Police speculated that the horrific bombing in the village of Shah Hassan Khel, in the Lakki Marwat district, was an act of reprisal against area leaders who last year formed private militias to oppose the Taliban and recently turned in a group of extremist fighters to the authorities.
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There are many a smirk as US President Barack Obama flies to Oslo to be crowned Peacenik of 2009, but it is the Russians who get the prize for taking the shine off Obama's trophy, notes Eric Walberg Obama desperately needed a new nuclear arms treaty to replace START I to provide some justification for the Nobel Committee's gamble. The award in the face of US imperial wars and hubris is proving to be extremely embarrassing to everyone, left and right. In awarding the Nobel Prize to Obama on 9 October, the selection committee “in particular looked at Obama’s vision and work toward a world without atomic weapons,” giving him an out, if he could at least bring a nuclear arms treaty with him. ...

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THE share market ended the day stronger after Australian investors shrugged off news of a much-expected interest rate... ...