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| Obama summons intel chiefs for security talks
December 31, 2009 at 10:10 pm
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| KANEOHE, Hawaii (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday summoned U.S. intelligence chiefs to a meeting next week at the White House to discuss how to prevent a repeat of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25. |
| China says 5,394 arrested in Internet porn crackdown
December 31, 2009 at 9:58 pm
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against Internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown that critics say is being used to tighten overall censorship. |
| U.S., foreign officials to discuss airport security
December 31, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will dispatch senior agency officials to meet with airport executives around the world to review security and technology used to screen passengers on U.S.-bound flights, the department said. |
| Judge throws out Blackwater manslaughter charges
December 31, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge threw out all charges on Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007, saying the U.S. government had recklessly violated the defendants' constitutional rights. |
| North Korea calls for end to hostile relations with U.S.
December 31, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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| LONDON (Reuters) - North Korea has called for an end to hostile relations with the United States in a New Year message, the official news agency KCNA reported. |
| Fed's balance sheet shrinks slightly
December 31, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve's balance sheet shrank slightly in the latest week on a small dip in its holdings of agency mortgage-backed securities, Fed data released on Thursday showed. |
| Israel's Netanyahu proposes Egypt peace summit
December 31, 2009 at 3:35 pm
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| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed an Egyptian-hosted summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a possible way to resume stalled peace talks, Israeli officials said on Thursday. |
| Nigeria says plane bomber began journey in Ghana
December 31, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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| LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas Day began his journey in Ghana and spent less than 30 minutes in Nigeria's Lagos airport, the Nigerian government said on Thursday. |
| Iranian authorities vow "no mercy" to opponents
December 31, 2009 at 1:27 pm
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian hardline authorities accused opposition leaders on Thursday of links to "foreign enemies" and warned they would be shown no mercy unless they changed course. |
| U.S. drone attack kills 2 militants in Pakistan
December 31, 2009 at 12:27 pm
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| MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft killed at least two militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan on Thursday, a security official said. |
| Afghan insurgents seize 2 French journalists
December 31, 2009 at 11:47 am
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| KABUL (Reuters) - Insurgents have kidnapped two French journalists, their translator and driver northeast of the Afghan capital, a police official said on Thursday. |
| AT&T ends sponsorship of Tiger Woods
December 31, 2009 at 11:13 am
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said it has terminated its sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods, joining the list of companies that have distanced themselves from the golfer in the wake of a sex scandal. |
| Pakistan seeks terrorism charges against Americans
December 31, 2009 at 9:01 am
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| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday. |
| At least three killed in Finnish mall shooting
December 31, 2009 at 6:10 am
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| HELSINKI (Reuters) - At least three people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Finnish shopping mall on Thursday, Finnish media reported, in the country's third multiple shooting incident in as many years. |
| Plot exposes fissure in U.S. intelligence community
December 31, 2009 at 1:29 am
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last week's failed plot to bomb a U.S. passenger jet has exposed lingering fissures within the U.S. intelligence community, which had information from interviews and clandestine intercepts but did not put the pieces together, officials said. | | | 
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