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Reporter's Notebook: Weapons Galore

When I heard the news about some 380 tons of dangerous HMX and RDX explosivesdisappearing from theAl Qaqaa (search)military installation south of Baghdad I had just one reaction: Tell me something I don’t know. This being my fifth visit to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, I long ago …

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Maldives court sentences sacked defense minister to 11 years in prison for possessing firearm

MALE, Maldives – A court in Maldives has sentenced a former defense minister to 11 years in prison for importing and possessing a firearm. A criminal court in Male, the capital island of this Indian Ocean archipelago state, has passed the sentence against Mohamed Nazim Thursday night. The same court …

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UN mission says Libya talks will resume in Morocco this week

CAIRO – The United Nations mission in Libya says talks between the country’s rival factions will resume this week in Morocco. The U.N. and its envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, have been trying to help resolve the crisis in the North African country, now bitterly divided between two rival governments …

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