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Iran triumphantly displayed one of America’s most advanced intelligence-gathering aircraft on Thursday after a spy drone crashed on its territory, leading Russia and China to ask to inspect its technology.

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A peon working in the city's municipal corporation was found to own assets worth around Rs.12 crore during a raid by the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta police, officials said.

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In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the heart of the capital city, is a secret the Romanian government has long tried to protect. For years, the CIA used a government building -- codenamed ''Bright Light'' -- as a makeshift prison for its most valuable detainees. There it held al-Qaida operatives Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, and others in a basement prison before they were ultimately transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006, according to former U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the location and inner workings of the prison.

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The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show. The landfill dumping was concealed from families who had authorized the military to dispose of the remains in a dignified and respectful manner, Air Force officials said. There are no plans, they said, to alert those families now.

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"Any actions organized by outside groups, including the proposed Dec. 12 shutdown of various terminals on the West Coast, have not been vetted by our union's democratically led process," the International Longshore and Warehouse Union said. "Any decisions made by groups outside of the union's democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent."

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DID ANYONE notice the irony that the day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Burma to preach to their country about respecting "democracy" and "human rights," the U.S. Senate voted 93-7 to allow Americans to be detained indefinitely without any charges? Hillary was quoted as saying "any political prisoner is one too many." But the U.S. Senate voted to allow any American vaguely accused of aiding "al-Qaeda" be able to be sent to a prison for life without ever having to go to trial.

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The U.S. Postal Service's announcement Monday that it plans to close 252 mail processing centers and trim 28,000 jobs to fend off possible bankruptcy is part of a growing trend of shrinking government employment opportunities. For its workforce, which is disproportionately composed of African-Americans, the news means a lot more than the prospect of slower mail delivery.

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A court in the southern Chinese port city of Shenzhen on Wednesday handed down lighter-than-expected sentences for the 22 Indian traders, detained on diamond smuggling charges since January 2010, bringing relief to their family members who have had to wait almost two years for the verdict.

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