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U.S. drone guidelines could reduce 'signature strikes'
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. guidelines for conducting armed drone operations overseas set a higher bar for attacking non-Americans and could reduce controversial "signature strikes" targeted at suspicious groups rather than individuals. But the drone...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Government, National Government, U.S. Department of Defense, George W. Bush
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Obama seeks end to perpetual U.S. 'war on terror'
ReutersBy Matt Spetalnick and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against...Tags: White House, Television Industry, Prisons, Central Intelligence Agency, Al-Qaeda
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Obama puts restrictions on drone program
WASHINGTON — Reining back the aggressive counter-terrorism strategy he has embraced for five years, President Obama declared clear, public restrictions for the first time on using unmanned aircraft to kill terrorists, a shift likely to significantly...
Tags: White House, International Military Interventions, Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union, Al-Qaeda
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WikiLeaks doc director on Julian Assange: 'The balls of this guy - I thought, 'wow.'
ReutersLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seemed like an intriguing topic for prolific documentarian Alex Gibney, but little did he know the rabbit hole of secrets, lies and hypocrisy he would find as he dug into his subject. Gibney'...Tags: Movies, Sexual Assault, Heroism, Sex Crimes, NPR
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Repatriating detainees to Yemen key to closing Guantanamo
ReutersWASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge on Thursday to lift a ban on transfers of detainees to Yemen from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, addresses one of the core obstacles to clearing out the detention camp. Of the 86 detainees...Tags: Prisons, Al-Qaeda, Government, National Government, U.S. Department of Defense
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Michael Lynton Resigns from Broadcasting Board of Governors
VarietySony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton informed President Obama on Thursday that he was stepping down from his seat on the Broadcasting Board of Governors, apparently over time commitments. In a letter to Obama, Lynton said that "circumstances kept me...Tags: Media Industry, John Kerry, White House, Chicago Sun-Times, Corporate Officers
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Foreign Service officer made millions in visa-for-money scam, feds charge
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON A State Department official "received several million dollars in bribes" from Vietnamese residents seeking visas, according to newly public court documents. In a previously undisclosed criminal complaint, Foreign Service officer Michael T....Tags: Corporate Crime, Immigration, Bribery, Computer Networking and Internet, Thailand
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COLUMN - Changing Assad's calculus
Reuters(David Rohde is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By David Rohde AMMAN, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and 10 European and Arab foreign ministers gathered in Amman, Jordan on Wednesday night to again talk about...Tags: Bashar Assad, International Military Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry, Qatar
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Quebec to do own review of Enbridge pipeline project
ReutersBy Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Quebec will announce within weeks that it will launch its own public review of a proposed pipeline that would deliver crude oil from western Canada to eastern markets, its environment minister said...Tags: Energy, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Government, National Government, Global Warming
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Kerry meets Israelis, Palestinians to revive talks
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials on Thursday and acknowledged there was considerable skepticism that the two sides would resume peace negotiations. There were no signs...Tags: Palestine, Government, John Kerry, Judaism, Peace Negotiations
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RPT-Switching from scandals, Obama to address drones and Guantanamo
Reuters(Repeats with no change in content) By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention away from a series of domestic scandals with a speech on Thursday that defends the U.S. use of drones abroad and lays out...Tags: White House, Prisons, Al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Government
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Iran pushes ahead with nuclear plant that worries West
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could eventually produce plutonium for a nuclear weapon if Tehran decides to make one, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday. In another...Tags: Nuclear Power, Weaponry, Iraq, Iran, Iran's Nuclear Program
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