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7 Navy SEALs punished for secrecy breach
Obama’s poll team says it won Florida
Iran implicitly confirms firing at US drone
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Ahead of Hina visit, B’desh jails editor who linked her to Bilawal Corruption scandal: Putin now sacks chief of armed forces
Pak to allow mobile services with India
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7 Navy SEALs punished for secrecy breach Washington, November 9 The seven members of the Navy SEAL, part of an elite force that operates in shadows, were sanctioned for dereliction of duty, disclosure of classified material and violating orders while serving as paid consultants for the development of the "Medal of Honor: Warfighter" video game, CBS news reported. They received a punitive letter of reprimand and forfeiture of a half month's pay for two months. Four other members of the team, who have since transferred out of the unit but are still on active duty, are under investigation. US broadcaster CBS said the SEALs are part of the famous SEAL Team Six, famed for carrying out the raid that killed Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011 in the garrison city of Abbottabad in Pakistan. The game, produced by Electronic Arts, does not recreate the Osama raid, but it does portray realistic missions, such as an attack on a pirates' den in Somalia. It is unclear what secrets members of the SEAL Team Six gave away, but while serving as consultants for the game for two days this spring and summer, they used classified material which had been given to them by the Navy. The deputy commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli, issued a statement acknowledging that nonjudicial punishments had been handed out for misconduct, but he did not offer any details. "We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy," Bonelli said. He alluded to the importance of honouring nondisclosure agreements that SEALs sign. The main complaints against the SEALs were that they did not seek the permission of their command to take part in the video project and that they showed the video designers some of their specially designed combat equipment unique to their unit, said a senior military official. — PTI ‘Spilled’ the beans
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Obama’s poll team says it won Florida Washington, November 9 Republican challenger Mitt Romney's campaign too conceded defeat in Florida, a key battleground state. With the win in Florida, 51-year-old Obama's tally reached 332 against Romney's 206. In the 2008 presidential elections, Obama, the first black American to occupy the White House, had secured 358 votes. In the state-by-state electoral college system, a candidate needs 270 votes for victory and Obama already had 303 before Florida was called. "On behalf of Florida Democrats, I wish President Barack Obama congratulations on his re-election and on winning Florida's 29 electoral college votes," Florida Democrats chair Rod Smith said in a statement. After the counting of votes, Florida was declared too close to call as Obama had received 49.9 per cent of the total votes as against 49.3 per cent of Romney, forcing election officials to count the thousands of provisional and absentee ballots. "We feel we will be the official winner in Florida," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina told the Miami Herald as the lion's share of the outstanding ballots came from the Democratic stronghold of the State. — PTI
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Iran implicitly confirms firing at US drone Washington, November 9 The November 1 intercept was the first time Tehran had fired at an unmanned American aircraft, in a stark reminder of how tensions between the United States and Iran could escalate quickly into violence. If Iran had hit the drone, as the Pentagon believes it was trying to do, it could have forced American retaliation - with the potential consequences that entails. According to the timeline provided by the Pentagon, two Iranian SU-25
"Frogfoot" aircraft intercepted the American drone at about 0850 GMT as it conducted a routine, but classified, surveillance mission over Gulf waters. — Reuters
Tehran’s warning
DUBAI: Iran said it would deal decisively with any foreign encroachment into its airspace, an apparent warning to the United States after one of its surveillance drones was targeted by Iranian warplanes last week.
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Ahead of Hina visit, B’desh jails editor who linked her to Bilawal Dhaka, November 9 "We arrested Salahuddin Shoeb Chowdhury two days ago and subsequently sent him to jail to face a charge of financial cheating in line with a court directive," Dhaka metropolitan police's deputy commissioner Masudur Rahman said. Rahman said Chowdhury, who runs online weekly Blitz, was arrested as a businessman named Sajjad Hossain filed a case accusing Shoaib of embezzling Taka 6.7 million. In 2003, Chowdhury had been arrested when he was charged with spying for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, while Bangladesh does not have diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv. The weekly two months ago created a stir when it claimed that Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's 24-year-old son Bilawal was romantically linked to Khar. Interestingly, the arrest of Chowdhury came a day before Khar's visit to Dhaka. Khar, 34, on brief visit to Bangladesh today, called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and main opposition BNP chief and ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia, held talks with her counterpart Dipu Moni. — PTI
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Corruption scandal: Putin now sacks chief of armed forces
Moscow, November 9 Putin removed General Nikolai Makarov as his top general and replaced him with General Valery Gerasimov, the commander of Russia's forces in the central military district who has served in the turbulent Chechnya region. Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was also abruptly dismissal on Tuesday. — Reuters
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Pak to allow mobile services with India Islamabad, November 9 The Standing Committee on Commerce of the National Assembly or lower house of parliament was told by officials of the Ministry of Information Technology yesterday about the move to allow mobile phone services between the two countries. — PTI
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Two days after he was re-elected President of the United States, Barack Obama's campaign said today he has won 29 electoral college votes in Florida, the only state which had not declared a winner on Election Day.
A controversial editor of a Bangladeshi online magazine, who had created a stir by alleging a romantic link between PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto and Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, has been jailed on charges of money embezzlement.
Seven members of the US Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in carrying out a raid that killed Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, have been reprimanded for allegedly divulging classified information for a video game, senior Navy officials said today.
