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Tokyo stages anti-terror exercise in Olympic bid (Reuters) Posted: 07 Nov 2008 12:14 AM CST Reuters - Tokyo staged its biggest ever anti-terrorism exercise on Friday, in an attempt to prove its credentials for staging the 2016 Olympic Games, days after Barack Obama's U.S. election victory boosted rival Chicago's hopes.

Guantanamo detainees deny they planned to fight US (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 07:24 PM CST AP - Seven years after their capture, six Algerian men denied Thursday they planned to fight with al-Qaida and asked to be released from prison in the first case of suspected terrorists challenging their detention at Guantanamo Bay.

Guantanamo inmates challenge detention in US court (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 05:37 PM CST AFP - Hearings began Thursday for six Algerians who are fighting their detention at Guantanamo Bay -- the first such challenge in a federal court since the war-on-terror US prison opened in 2002.

UK police: man charged with having IEDs, Nazi book (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 04:32 PM CST AP - British police charged a 43-year-old man Thursday with plotting an act of terrorism and having two improvised explosive devices, chemicals, timers, and a Nazi-themed handbook.

US condemns attack in North Ossetia (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 12:12 PM CST AFP - The United States condemned as a "heinous act of terrorism" a deadly explosion Thursday on a minibus in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz.

Blast in Russia's North Ossetia province kills 11 (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 10:49 AM CST AP - An explosion hit a minibus unloading passengers in the capital of Russia's North Ossetia province Thursday, and officials said 11 people were killed in what they called a terrorist attack.

Eleven dead in southern Russia blast: report (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 08:35 AM CST AFP - Eleven people were killed by a suspected terrorist blast that ripped through a minibus in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, security forces were quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.

Pakistan sets death penalty for "cyber terrorism" (Reuters) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 07:03 AM CST Reuters - Causing death through "cyber terrorism" will be punishable by death in Pakistan, according to a decree issued by President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday.

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