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| Gunmen seize Lebanese soldier in border town - source |
| Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:59 AM | |
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| BEIRUT (Reuters) - Gunmen seized a Lebanese soldier on Wednesday near a town at the border with Syria where Islamist insurgents took 19 soldiers captive in early August, a security source said. It was not immediately clear who had seized the soldier, who was identified by the source as a resident of the town of Arsal where he was taken on Wednesday. Two of the Lebanese soldiers taken from Arsal in early August have been beheaded by militants affiliated with Islamic State, one of the groups that took part in an incursion into the town that triggered five days of deadly battles with the army. ... |
| Chinese hacked U.S. military contractors, Senate panel finds |
| Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:14 AM | |
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| By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers associated with the Chinese government have repeatedly infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. airlines, technology companies and other contractors involved in the movement of U.S. troops and military equipment, a U.S. Senate panel has found. The Senate Armed Services Committee's year-long probe, concluded in March but made public on Wednesday, found the military's U.S. Transportation Command, or Transcom, was aware of only two out of at least 20 such cyber intrusions within a single year. ... |
| Singer Patti LaBelle takes stand in civil trial |
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 By Amanda Orr HOUSTON (Reuters) - Singer Patti LaBelle took the stand on Wednesday in a federal civil trial and denied telling her 400-pound bodyguard to attack a man standing too close to her luggage at the Houston airport in March 2011. The man, former West Point cadet Richard King, has sued LaBelle, her son, the bodyguard and an assistant over what his attorneys have said was an unprovoked attack that left King with brain damage and forced his withdrawal from the service academy. King arrived in Houston with a blood alcohol level of 0. ...
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| Australia police launch massive 'counter-terrorism' raids |
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| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of heavily armed police raided homes in Sydney and Brisbane before dawn on Thursday, launching a large-scale Australian "counter-terrorism operation" just days after the country raised its national terror threat level to high for the first time. Australian police said the raids were focused on a dozen suburbs in west Sydney, while local media said operations were also taking place in the Queensland city of Brisbane. ... |
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