U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
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The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
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Around 100-thousand armed security personnel, including 27-thousand foreign troops from a US-led coalition and NATO, have been deployed to protect more than 10 million registered voters.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Wednesday promised tougher controls on guns flowing illegally over the U.S. border to Mexico, where drug cartels have murdered 115 people already this month.
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The United States has overtaken France as the country with the highest number of asylum applications, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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During a one-day stop here in a country where the United States once shipped millions of dollars worth of weaponry, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came with a message of disarmament.
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More than half of Americans, 54 percent, continue to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or a program to develop them before the United States invaded last year, according to a poll released Friday.
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SAQLAWIYA, Iraq -- The police outpost here is supposed to house 90 armed members of Iraq's National Guard. Their job is to keep watch over a stretch of six-lane highway, deterring insurgents from laying roadside bombs and trying to blow up a bridge over the nearby Tharthar Canal.
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Note to delegates and other convention attendees: Leave your guns at home. As New York increases security for the Republican National Convention, the event's organizers are making sure nothing's left unsaid. That's why "weapons" topped a list of prohibited items sent out in advance.
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Forced labor in the US, background checks for guns, and Turkey's human rights record.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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The U.S. Navy said it generated on Thursday the strongest-ever force of its kind used to fire a futuristic weapon designed to boost naval gunfire range more than 10 times by 2020.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - For the first time,  all of the militia fighters in an Afghan region have been  disarmed as fighters loyal to two northern commanders gave up  their guns under a U.N.-run drive to demilitarize the country.
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A report found an average of almost 960 attacks on U.S. and Iraqi targets every week from early August to early November.
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A long-term study of the health and development of children in the United States will include about 100,000 children and their families in 96 counties in 36 states.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: To arm Sunni gangs smacks of desperation. America seems not yet to have learned that it will never win by arms alone.
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South African civilians own more guns than the police and military combined, a study finds.