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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a “two-point...
Nov 3 2009
Iran’s leadership has once again equivocated after agreeing to a deal that would ease its nuclear standoff with the West. But this time, that may be as much a product of the nation’s smoldering political crisis as it is a negotiating tactic,...
Nov 3 2009
A Detroit-area man who prosecutors say tried to use HIV as a weapon when he bit through his neighbor’s lip will stand trial. Forty-four-year-old Daniel Allen of Clinton Township faces charges of assault with intent to maim, assault with intent to...
Nov 2 2009
Recently I received an email labeled “Strictly Confidential” from Dr. Bakare Tunde, who said he was astronautics project manager at Nigeria’s space agency. He also told me he was the cousin of the first African in space, Air Force Major...
Nov 2 2009
A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found six decomposing bodies at his home. Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Anthony Sowell was...
Oct 27 2009
A California high school student who police said was gang raped in a two-and-a-half-hour assault outside a homecoming dance remained hospitalized in stable condition Monday, two days after she was flown from the attack scene in critical condition. As...
Oct 27 2009
Before she appeared at the American Bankers Association annual convention today, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation head Sheila Bair addressed protesters at the conference. (Check out HuffPost’s coverage of the protests here.) Bair said she...
Oct 26 2009
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused to attend the start of his war crimes trial today saying he was not ready, and judges said they would impose a legal team on him if he failed to show up again. Karadzic, who has denied all 11 war...
Oct 20 2009
The Obama administration’s new policy toward Sudan, formally announced Monday, turns the spotlight back on where the troubled nation’s problems first began: the split between the Islamic north and the largely animist and Christian...
Oct 15 2009
Russia in a new review of its policy on use of nuclear weapons will reserve the right to undertake a pre-emptive strike if it feels its security is endangered, a senior Kremlin official told a Russian newspaper. Russian and U.S. negotiators are in...