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Doku Umarov: The Man Behind Russia's Deadly Train Blast - TIMEWhen Illyas Musayev heard that the Neva Express train had been bombed on Nov. 27, killing 26 well-to-do Russians and injuring about 100 others, the Chechen separatist was incredulous. He didn't want to believe that his former comrade in arms Doku Umarov had kept the pledge he made in August to ...
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Russia shifts stance on Iran, Ahmadinejad defiant - Yahoo! NewsRussia will join any consensus on more sanctions against Iran, a senior Russian diplomatic source said on Tuesday after Tehran declared it would expand nuclear activity in defiance of a U.N. rebuke. It was a thinly veiled Russian warning to Iran of waning patience with its failure to allay ...
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Russian patriarch seeks "powerful reply" to train bomb - Yahoo! NewsThe head of Russia's Orthodox Church Sunday called on authorities to give a "powerful reply" to the people behind a train bombing that killed 25 people, as police probed whether Islamist rebels were involved. A blast derailed a high-speed Russian train Friday night on the main line between ...
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60 Years Later, Everyone's Still Loving the AK-47 | Like It or Not | Fast Company"Does this AK make my ass look big? As if!" Designed for soldiers wearing gloves in arctic cold, 60 years later the AK-47 is the brand of choice in deserts, the tropics, and urban jungles, too. It's one of the best tools ever manufactured, a masterpiece of the Industrial Age. My nephew, just ...
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What would happen if your town got nuked?The thermal effects of the 'Little Boy' nuclear bomb if it was dropped on New York City. Not that it's particularly likely, but as long as nuclear bombs exist, there's the chance - however slim - that one might go off somewhere near you. This little Google Maps overlay might be a bit morbid, ...
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World news Feed Article | World news | guardian.co.ukKyrgyzstan's parliament unanimously approved a deal Thursday allowing the U.S. to continue using an air base crucial to military operations in Afghanistan, sharply shifting course months after ordering American forces out by August. Lawmakers voted 75-0 to ratify the agreement, providing a ...
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Senate Panel Votes for More Stealth Jets, Defying Gates | Danger Room | Wired.comSenate Panel Votes for More Stealth Jets, Defying Gates The White House and the Pentagon leadership couldn’t be clearer: they don’t want any more of the controversial F-22 stealth fighters. But Congress now seems ready to pour billions into extra jets, anyway. The Senate Armed Services ...
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China dominates NSA-backed coding contestProgrammers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components. If you’re a hypermiler, or someone who simply wants to boost your fuel economy, Plug In Conversions has you covered there, too. Install the software kit ...
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China dominates NSA-backed coding contest | #Security, #Contest, #NSAProgrammers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components. Winner: Bin Jin, or 'crazyb0y.' Whether the outcome of this competition is another sign that math and science education in the U.S. needs ...
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Russia's cyber blockade of Georgia worked. Could it happen here?The Russian and Georgia war last August began in cyberspace with sporadic denial-of-service attacks, targeted primarily at news and government Web sites weeks before the shooting started. And at first, says Eka Tkeshelashvili, secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia, the government ...
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