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Google boss Eric Schmidt plans to visit North Korea, according to AP report Jan 4th 2013, 05:10 SEOUL — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, a pioneer for free and open communication, is planning a trip to North Korea, an isolated police state that prohibits nearly all of its citizens from using the Internet. Read full article >> Can Republicans rediscover a once-celebrated foreign policy tradition? Jan 3rd 2013, 12:00 One of my favorite illustrations of the little-appreciated depth of Republican foreign policy is the story of how two GOP presidents approached the Berlin Wall. In June 1982, two days after his speech predicting that "freedom and democracy" would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history," President Ronald Reagan visited the wall for the first time. Gazing over the barrier that had come to symbolize the entire Cold War, then at one of its lowest points in years, he muttered, "It's as ugly as the idea behind it." Read full article >> Local Pakistani officials say U.S. drone strike kills at least 6, including a top militant commander Jan 3rd 2013, 09:02 ISLAMABAD — A U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan killed at least six people, Pakistani government officials said on Thursday, including the powerful Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir Wazir. Read full article >> Pakistani officials say U.S. missile strike kills at least 6, including a top militant commander Jan 3rd 2013, 07:19 ISLAMABAD — A U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan killed at least six people including the important Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir Wazir, who was also known as Mullah Nazir, Pakistani government officials said on Thursday. Read full article >> Judge backs Obama administration on secrecy of targeted killings of terrorism suspects Jan 3rd 2013, 02:13 The Obama administration acted lawfully in refusing to disclose information about its targeted killings of terrorism suspects, including the 2011 drone strikes that killed three U.S. citizens in Yemen, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Read full article >> Danger lies between the lines of a U.S. Army contract in Afghanistan Jan 3rd 2013, 01:56 Here is a reminder that there is still fighting going on in a part of Afghanistan that was deemed ready to be transitioned to the Afghan Army for security purposes almost a year ago. In a new U.S Army Corps of Engineers solicitation to complete construction of an Afghan National Army, Corps Support Battalion and related support facilities at Camp Zafar in Herat Province, potential bidders are told: "The project is in an active war zone where International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) may conduct offensive and defensive operations against a variety of hostile forces, to include members of the Taliban." Read full article >> Turkish villagers take in Syrian refugees that humanitarian groups don't serve Jan 3rd 2013, 01:34 DAVUTPASA, Turkey — It was dinnertime at the dilapidated four-room house where at least 75 members of the Jasem family have been living since they fled the flooded cave in Syria where they first sought shelter when their village was shelled, and Hasnan Jasem was planning to serve potatoes and bread. Nothing else, just potatoes and bread. Read full article >>

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