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Internet spying helped foil terror plots: NSA chief
Director of the National Security Agency General Keith Alexander in Washington, DC, on Wednesday . — AFP
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Musharraf arrested; sent to 14-day judicial custody
Hardliners still split as Iran election campaigning ends
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Internet spying helped foil terror plots: NSA chief
Washington, June 13 "It's dozens of terrorist events that these have helped prevent, from my perspective," Gen Keith Alexander, commander of the US Cyber Commander and Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), told Senators during a Congressional hearing. Responding to questions from Senator Pat Leahy, Alexander yesterday said the NSA collects millions and millions of records and of them dozens of them have proved critical. This includes both domestic and foreign terrorist plots, he said, but refrained from elaborating further. “I want the American people to know that we're trying to be transparent here, protect civil liberties and privacy and also the security of this country. On the New York City, the Zazi case, it started with a 702 set of information based on operatives overseas. We saw connections in it to a person in Colorado. That was passed to the FBI. The FBI determined who that was, Zazi, and phone numbers that went to that,” he said. "The phone numbers on Zazi were the things that then allowed us to use the business records, to go and find out connections from Zazi to other players throughout communities, specifically in New York City," he said. He also said David Headley, the Mumbai terrorist attack convict, was nabbed through this process.— PTI \ I want the American people to know that we're trying to be transparent here, protect civil liberties and privacy and also the security of this country. — Gen Keith Alexander, NSA Director
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China accuses US of double standards
Beijing, June 13 “Unfortunately, I have no information right now to provide to you,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying told a packed media briefing here today declining to reveal how Beijing plans to deal with Snowden. Snowden, who exposed massive US phone and Internet spying, has delivered a propaganda coup of sorts for China to counter US' persistent allegations of Chinese hacking attacks. “On Snowden's case, we have noticed relevant report but unfortunately we have no information to offer,” she said.— PTI
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93,000 killed in Syrian conflict: UN
Geneva, June 13 The analysis found 92,901 documented killings in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2013, said the UN's top human rights official, Navi Pillay, but she acknowledged that it was impossible to put an exact figure on the death toll from Syria's upward spiral of violence. The last such analysis, in January, had documented nearly 60,000 killings through the end of November. The latest figures add more killings to that time period, plus some 27,000 more between December and April. "The constant flow of killings continues at shockingly high levels, with more than 5,000 killings documented every month since last July," said Pillay. — AP |
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Musharraf arrested; sent to 14-day judicial custody
Islamabad, June 13 Musharraf (69) was arrested by a team from the Crime Branch of the Balochistan Police. The team was sent from Quetta to Islamabad yesterday after an anti-terrorism court in Balochistan rejected Musharraf's bail application and ordered his arrest. Acting on a request from the Balochistan Police team, an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad subsequently remanded Musharraf in judicial custody for 14 days so that he could be questioned over the killing of Bugti. Officials said Musharraf will continue to be held at his farmhouse at Chak Shahzad on the outskirts of Islamabad for security reasons. The villa was declared a "sub-jail" shortly after Musharraf was first arrested in April. Bugti was killed in August 2006 during a military operation ordered by Musharraf, who was President and army chief at the time. Bugti headed an armed insurgency to press for provincial autonomy and a greater share of profits from Balochistan’s natural resources. His death triggered angry protests in Balochistan. — PTI
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Hardliners still split as Iran election campaigning ends
Dubai, June 13 Hardliners have failed to agree on a unity candidate, potentially splitting their vote and improving the chances of moderate cleric Hassan Rohani to progress to a run-off poll. The next president is not expected to produce any major policy shift on Iran's disputed nuclear programme or its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls all the shots on the big issues. Yet all but one of the candidates - chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili - has advocated a less intransigent approach to nuclear talks with world powers. The president can influence the tone of Iran's foreign policy with his choice of trips abroad. — Reuters
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Nepal Constituent Assembly polls to be held on Nov 19 Kathmandu, June 13 A meeting of the Council of Ministers held at the Singh Durbar secretariat decided to hold the elections to the 491-member Constituent Assembly on November 19, an official press release said. The cabinet meeting has also endorsed the ordinances related to the elections. "Constituent Assembly election provides an opportunity to the people to make their own Constitution through the exercise of the sovereign power vested upon them," the release said. “As the representative body to be formed by the Constituent Assembly elections will not only draft the Constitution but it will also resolve the current political impasse," it adds. — PTI
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Turkish PM’s last warning to protesters
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A top American intelligence official has defended the Internet spying programme of the Obama administration, saying it has helped abort several terrorist plots and saved thousands of lives.
Islamabad, June 13
Campaigning in Iran's presidential election ended on Thursday, a day before the vote in which the sole moderate candidate has an unlikely chance to steal victory from his hardline rivals.
Hardliners have failed to agree on a unity candidate, potentially splitting their vote and improving the chances of moderate cleric Hassan Rohani to progress to a run-off poll.
