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Police arrested nine people and seized 300 firearms including assault rifles in a raid targeting an arms ring that allegedly sold weapons to Mexican drug traffickers authorities said on Thursday

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CEO said his company has seen no disruption in schedules to deliver Sandy Bridge based products to customers

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ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN A Pakistani court on Thursday gave the central government three more weeks to determine whether a U S official facing murder charges qualifies for diplomatic immunity.

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The Bahrain capital of Manama was rocked by sporadic clashes hours after riot police attacked a makeshift encampment of pro reform protesters in the centre of the city killing at least six and injuring dozens of others.

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Protests have been banned in Bahrain and the military has been ordered to tighten its grip after the violent removal of anti government demonstrators state TV reports

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Physicists have built the world s first device that can cancel out a laser beam a so called anti laser The device created by a team from Yale University is capable of absorbing an incoming laser beam entirely

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That old Africa oil chestnut is being discussed again is it a blessing or a curse

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An Ethiopian journalist says he was detained and harassed by federal police after comparing conditions in Ethiopia to those in North African states hit by people power protests Journalist Eskinder Nega says six heavily armed policemen jumped from a truck on a busy central Addis Ababa street last week grabbed him and whisked him away to federal police headquarters

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ibyan protesters seeking to oust longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi have defied a crackdown and taken to the streets on what activists have dubbed a day of rage There are reports that more than a dozen demonstrators have been killed in clashes with pro government groups

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Two people have been killed and 40 wounded after police shot at a crowd of protesters in Kurdistan northern Iraq

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The Bahrain military, backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers, took control of most of this capital on Thursday hours after hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers fired shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades to break up a pro-democracy camp inspired by the tumult swirling across the Middle East.