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GCSB legislation could stop bombings
Opposition to the GSCB legislation rely on their traditional response that NZ will become a "national security state."…
Gillard urged to ease 'Orwellian' spy laws
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is coming under renewed pressure to ease the wave of draconian powers handed to Australia's…
Syria group blamed for Turkey blasts
In one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years, two car bombs exploded near the border with Syria on Saturday…
War
Attacks push Iraq closer to sectarian war
Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings…
NZ ready to aid Middle East deal
Foreign Minister Murray McCully will tomorrow offer the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, New Zealand's assistance in the…
Boston suspect burial appears to be legal
The burial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev appears to be legal, a law enforcement official said after…
Boston bombing suspect buried
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a rural cemetery in Virginia, infuriating some members…
Fears raised about anti-money laundering laws
New money laundering and terrorist financing laws coming into effect shortly could affect the ability of migrant workers…
Hunger strike reaches crisis point
Emaciated and frail, more than 100 men lie on concrete floors of freezing, solitary cells in Guantanamo, silently starving…
Terrorism
Struggling to find cemetery for Boston bombing suspect
A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and…
Remains of Boston Marathon bombing suspect claimed
The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was the subject of a massive manhunt and died after a…
Three more bomb suspects in custody
Three friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been arrested and accused of removing a backpack…
Landing gear from 767 jet used in 9/11
A rusted piece of landing gear wedged between a mosque and an apartment building has been confirmed as coming from the type…
Search on for human remains amid Sept 11 plane debris
The medical examiner's office plans to search for September 11 human remains in an alley behind a mosque…
Russia wiretapped Boston bomb suspect
US officials say Russian authorities secretly recorded a conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects…
Deadly twin blasts rock Karachi
Four people were killed and dozens were injured in two separate bombings of political targets in the southern city of Karachi…
Sept 11 plane's landing gear discovered
A piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the September 11 attacks has been discovered…
Russia detains 140 suspected Islamic extremists
Russian police and security agents detained 140 people at a mosque in Moscow on suspicion of involvement with Islamic extremism…
Homecoming an illusion for 'freed' detainee
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World
Brutal London attack leaves one dead near barracks
In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked…
Afghanistan
Shock and gore
Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant shawl. Hidden…
Iraq
Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover
Iraq's wave of bloodshed has sharply escalated with more than a dozen car bombings across the country.
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