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Leading U.S. Government and defence consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has confirmed a breach in its cyber security, adding credence to Anonymous hackers previous claims.

Israeli soldiers Wednesday killed a young Palestinian man while looking for an activist of the Islamic Jihad Movement at a refugee camp in the West Bank's north, Palestinian security sources told the Associated Press.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has led mourners at the funeral of Ahmed Wali Karzai, his influential younger half-brother, who was assassinated on Tuesday afternoon in Kandahar by a member of his own security team.

Jack Crabtree, a retired wildlife biologist from Lake Jackson, Texas, reportedly spotted the mythical Chupacabra near his home.Crabtree and his wife told ABC News that On July 4 they saw the hairless animal around a creek in the back of their house.

According to U.S officials, rebel forces that captured towns from Nalut to Kikla in Libya's western Nafusa Mountains managed to cut a vital crude oil pipeline that feeds one of the government's major refineries in the town of al-Zawiya, greatly impeding the Libyan government's ability to continue fighting the rebels.

After releasing 90,000 of military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton's email addresses and passwords, hacker collective Anonymous has revealed the latest step in its AntiSec campaign, Operation Green Rights.

Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, the country's defence minister, said without it Pakistan could not afford to keep troops at 1,100 checkpoints near the mountainous border.

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U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has lost the legitimacy to rule after pro-government demonstrators stormed Washington's embassy in Damascus.

The western population of gray (or grey) whales is one of the most threatened group of cetaceans on the planet, with only about 130 remaining, including an estimated 26 breeding females, and a small area near the Sakhalin coast is their only known feeding ground but efforts to protect are still insufficient, scientists warn.

On Monday, The Guardian newspaper said that the CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family.

Apple's chief patent lawyer is reportedly set to leave the company just as it mounts a fresh legal assault on Desire and Galaxy S2 smartphone makers HTC and Samsung.

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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he regrets the U.S. decision to stop $800 million in military aid to Pakistan.

As a part of its ongoing AntiSec campaign, the hacking collective Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a new attack on defense company Booz Allen Hamilton, releasing the details of several of its contracts with the U.S. Military.

France acknowledges that it is growing impatient with the lack of progress on reaching a political solution to the crisis in Libya, but officials denied Paris is in talks with Gaddafi's government or could consider him not quitting power.

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An Afghan official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother has been killed in southern Afghanistan the Associated Press reported. Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, says that Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday.

Dozens of containers of gunpowder seized from an Iranian cargo ship in 2009 exploded on Cyprus' main naval base Monday in a massive blast that killed 12 people, wounded 62 and wrecked a major power station, causing extensive blackouts.

Astronauts continued organizing the unloading of a year's worth of supplies at the International Space Station after NASA said on Monday that a piece of Soviet space debris was unlikely to collide with orbiting lab.

While its legal para-troopers continue their assault on Samsung's gates, iPhone maker Apple has opened up a new front, hitting the ITC with yet another complaint, this time about HTC.

Following a surge of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, British army and commanders have said that despite the insurgents' attempt to sabotage the security handover in the southern Helmand province, Afghan police and troops can protect the area after a year of preparation, and training.

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Greece is due to send a team of military experts to Cyprus on Monday to assist local authorities in search operations following a massive explosion at a naval base in Zygi, which has caused an undetermined number of casualties.

Recent reports from Syria allege that security guards at the French Embassy have fired into the air to drive back protesters taking part in demonstrations outside the French and American embassies in Damascus.

Just as Google begins opening up its new Google+ social networking service asking individuals to share their personal data, Eric Schmidt has been ordered to appear before the U.S Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee.

Sarah Palin has dropped her biggest hint yet that she will run for the Republican nomination and fight President Obama in a national election in November 2012.

China has recently been at the forefront of the International scene as it leads a diplomatic offensive which proves that it wants to enlarge its sphere of influence further away from the Asian pacific zone.With the Libyan conflict, China has broken away from one of its golden rule by formally recognizing the rebels' National Council and getting actively involved in peace talks, thus interfering in a country's domestic affairs.