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A deal to send 800 asylum seekers in Australia to Malaysia in exchange for 4,000 refugees is to be signed on Monday, a Malaysian official has said.The home ministry official said the one-off exchange of boat people would be formally agreed in Kuala Lumpur.Many refugee claimants held at Australia's Christmas...
Three people have been arrested in Norway on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks.Unnamed Norwegian and US officials told the Associated Press that the men were members of al-Qaeda and had been under surveillance for a year.They said it was not clear whether the men had selected a target, but they...
Suspended former Fifa presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam begins his attempt to clear his name of bribery allegations on Friday.Fifa's ethics committee has started a two-day hearing to rule on claims the Qatari tried to bribe Caribbean delegates to vote for him as president.Bin Hammam pulled out of...
Ray Dam (C) and Suos Saroeun (R) (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post) Dec 23, 2010DPAPhnom Penh - Police in Cambodia arrested a man claiming to be an adviser to US President Barack Obama and head of an international finance organization that stores its assets in caves and sunken ships. Ray Dam and associate...
Former Argentine general and dictator Jorge Rafael Videla (L) and former army general Luciano Benjamin Menendez await for their sentence in the trial for the murder of 31 political prisoners. (AFP/Getty Images) DECEMBER 23, 2010By MATT MOFFETT The Wall Street JournalBUENOS AIRES—Former Argentine...