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Indian lawmakers to meet on anti-terror measures (AP) Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:02 AM CST AP - India's upper house of Parliament met Thursday to consider anti-terror legislation drafted after the Mumbai attacks that would give police sweeping new powers and create an FBI-style national investigation agency.

White powder mailed to 16 U.S. embassies in Europe (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 04:32 PM CST Reuters - Envelopes containing white powder that later tested negative for toxins were mailed to 16 U.S. embassies in Europe this month, the State Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday.

'War on terror' a generational conflict, Bush says (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:32 PM CST AFP - The United States' "war on terror" will continue for many years to come, President George W. Bush said Wednesday in a speech on his national security legacy.

Some 11,000 US troops to work during inauguration (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:21 PM CST AP - More than 11,000 U.S. troops will provide air defenses and medical and other support in case of a terrorist attack during the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, the U.S. commander in charge of domestic defense said Wednesday.

Russian treason bill could target Kremlin critics (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 02:18 PM CST AP - Under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, people who fraternized with foreigners or criticized the Kremlin were "enemies of the people" and sent to the gulag. Now there's new legislation backed by Vladimir Putin's government that human rights activists say could throw Russia back to the days of the Great Terror.

Bush touts relations with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 01:52 PM CST Reuters - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he is leaving to his successor a stronger anti-terrorism partnership with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia forged in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

Germany's Islamic Terrorists: Echoes of Baader-Meinhoff (Time.com) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 01:50 PM CST Time.com - Today's extremists share common cause with the former left-wing Baader-Meinhoff group, and operate in strikingly similar ways

Bahrain arrests group suspected of planning attack (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 01:36 PM CST AFP - Several members of a group planning a terrorist attack in the Gulf state of Bahrain have been arrested, the state security authority said in a statement on Wednesday.

Pakistan demands India provide Mumbai evidence (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 12:59 PM CST AP - Pakistan sought to put some of the pressure over the Mumbai bloodshed on India, demanding Wednesday that its neighbor hand over "concrete evidence" against Pakistani citizens and groups allegedly involved in the terror attack.

Indian parliament agrees tough new anti-terror laws (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 11:33 AM CST AFP - The Indian parliament on Wednesday agreed tougher anti-terrorism laws in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, including the setting up of an FBI-style agency to plug gaping holes exposed by the atrocity.

US military mobilizes troops for inauguration (AFP) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 11:31 AM CST AFP - The US military plans to mobilize thousands of troops to protect Washington against potential terrorist attack during the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama, a senior US military commander said Wednesday.

Doctor gets 2 life sentences in UK bomb plot (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 08:34 AM CST AP - A doctor who led failed car bomb attacks in Britain in revenge for U.S.-led military action in his family's native Iraq was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

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