Papers shed light on envoy's '73 killing
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In the early morning of July 1, 1973, Col. Yosef Alon &#151; a charismatic former fighter pilot who helped establish the Israeli Air Force &#151; was gunned down in his suburban Maryland driveway. Thirty-four years later, the case is unsolved.
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The path to uncovering the life and death of Cornelis Marinus Brouwenstijn begins with a plain manila envelope containing a purse, an ID booklet, a cracked leather wallet, a slew of family snapshots, and a ...Comment
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Russia has declassified documents on millions of victims of Soviet-era repression, allowing relatives to request information about those who were executed or died of disease and starvation in prison, the top security agency said Sunday.
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A leading US newspaper carried areport on Sunday describing in details how the White House embraced suspect intelligence on Iraq&#39;s alleged illicit weapons inthe run-up to the Iraq war in March 2003.
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The "classified report" about the alleged influence of Russian gas companies on Lithuanian politicians was written by Keith C. Smith, former US ambassador to Lithuania.
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Police investigating the deadly suicide attack on Australiaâs embassy in Jakarta have found the chassis number of the van that carried the bomb, a key piece of evidence in their hunt for the killers.
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The CIA worked with three American mobsters in a botched "gangster-type" attempt to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA on Tuesday.
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Foreign Office official accused of leaking documents to the New Statesman and the Observer cleared
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 21 -- Mexican authorities have quietly released an 859-page report that describes how three Mexican governments killed, tortured and disappeared dissidents and political opponents from the late 1960s until 1982.
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A new report shows that controversial interrogation techniques were drawn from enemy tactics during the Cold War
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Long-hidden items and documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were revealed for the first time Monday, after spending nearly two decades locked inside a courthouse safe.
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For the first time, U.S. journalists saw evidence of the places where hostages may have been imprisoned or killed.
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A message attributing a U.S. diplomat's slaying in Sudan to a previously unknown militant group has been posted in the chat room of a Web site used by militants, a group that monitors such sites said Friday.
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THE HAGUE -- A letter left on the body of a Dutch filmmaker killed in Amsterdam contained death threats against a politician and was signed by a suspected terrorist group, the justice minister said yesterday, as police pressed an investigation into radical Islamic groups.
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The papers try to assess the potential political fall-out from the murder of British hostage Ken Bigley in Iraq.
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GAZA -- Palestinian security forces know who was behind the killing of three Americans in Gaza nearly a year ago but cannot act against the factions while fighting with Israel continues, a top Palestinian security official said.
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The body of an American diplomat gunned down in Khartoum was placed aboard a jet Thursday for a flight out of the country, and FBI agents arrived to investigate his slaying, U.S. Embassy officials said.