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Text of report by Malaysian newspaper Utusan Malaysia website on 16 June [Unattributed article: 'Militant Group's Movement in Malaysia Must Not Be Taken lightly'] The remark of Inspector General of [...]

Text of editorial headlined 'The Obama doctrine' published by Pakistani newspaper Daily Times website on 29 May US President Barack Obama has unveiled a new national security strategy that has [...]

Text of report by the website of liberal Russian newspaper Vremya Novostey on 24 May [Petr Iskenderov report: 'The Obama foctrine: the US president is changing America's strategic priorities'] The [...]

Geoff Hoon ducked the inevitable on Thursday when he opted to use the defence white paper to reassert his vision of British troops fighting a future high-tech war - but [...]

WASHINGTON -- White House attempts to clarify its approach to the treatment of detainees were questioned yesterday by campaigners who said documents released by the administration on Tuesday complicated the [...]

Israel may remove up to 20 Jewish settlements in the West Bank as part of a disengagement plan Ariel Sharon, Israeli prime minister, discussed yesterday with US envoys. The proposal [...]

The 'tough decisions' needed to reshape the armed forces to cope with terrorism and other threats will not be taken until next year, following a review of spending commitments, Geoff [...]

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush urged his staff yesterday to comply with today's Justice Department deadline to hand over documents related to the leak of an undercover Central Intelligence [...]

WASHINGTON -- The White House yesterday released portions of a top secret intelligence assessment prepared before the war in Iraq, arguing it presented 'a clear, compelling case' that Iraq was [...]

WROCLAW -- France, Germany and Poland took a step towards closer consultation on security and defence yesterday to prevent embarrassing splits between so-called Old and New Europe over US policy [...]

WASHINGTON -- The US army general in charge of all ground forces in and around Baghdad said yesterday that US forces had found 'plenty of documentary evidence' to prove Saddam [...]

(From Western Daily Press) Byline: SAM MARSDEN MI5 faces having to disclose secret documents to the families of those killed in the 7/7 bombings after a coroner ruled she could [...]

More intelligence on the European Commission's military ambitions. Observer revealed last month that an experts' paper was being prepared for Erkki Liikanen and Philippe Busquin, industry and research commissioners, on [...]

Brussels has long had its 'non-papers' - informal consultation documents. In the debate on where a new EU military force might be based the latest idea is for a 'virtual [...]

The white paper on thedraft European constitutiontreaty for the European Union spells out the delicate balancing act that the government will want to adopt in negotiations over the next few [...]

BRUSSELS -- Britain will over the next few days set down its own red lines over the development of the European Union's defence policy when it unveils its 'white paper' [...]

The US and Turkey sought yesterday to paper over a dispute that broke out between the two Nato allies this month when US soldiers arrested 11 Turkish commandos in Iraq. [...]

ANKARA -- The US and Turkey yesterday sought to paper over the cracks of a dispute that broke out between the two Nato allies earlier this month when US soldiers [...]

SANTIAGO -- Chile, until yesterday one of the six 'undecided' Security Council members, will present a working paper to the UN proposing three more weeks for Iraq to demonstrate that [...]

Julian Assange, the young Australian founder of WikiLeaks, likely is aging fast. After becoming an instant Internet-fueled media celebrity, he is now a fugitive on the run from Interpol as [...]

PUTRAJAYA: Moles in the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission are disrupting the operations of the antigraft body. MACC deputy chief commissioner Datuk Mohd Shukri Abdull said the moles must be weeded out [...]

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua 'Commentary': 'Chinese Investment, a Real Threat To US National Security?'] BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) [...]

Text of report by Brazilian news agency Estado ['Government Announces Creation of New Centre to Reinforce National Security' - Agencia Estado Headline] The federal government will announce in the next [...]

Text of report by liberal Sudanese newspaper Al-Sahafah on 19 May The Al-Nadwah press and media company, which owns R'ay Al-Sha'ab newspaper has issued an appealed against the National Security [...]

A Conservative government will consider using money from the international aid budget to part-fund a new military-backed 'reconstruction force' for warzones such as Afghanistan. The proposal, made in a draft [...]

How should a national security service, facing the worst-ever terrorist threat to its country, mark its centenary? Not by the light-hearted celebrations with which it marked the end of the [...]

The Middle East and North Africa are sitting on a demographic time bomb. The region presides over the lowest employment rate in the world. One in four people under the [...]

SEOUL -- South Korea's defence ministry has requested a 13 per cent increase in its budget next year to compensate for the planned reduction in US forces in the country. [...]

America's public image in the Middle East has sunk to a new low. Even as shocking images of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq continue to reverberate, a [...]

The March 2003 Pentagon draft report detailing the reasons President George W. Bush is not bound by domestic or international law that prohibits the torture of detainees is a rare [...]

The excessive costs of throwing up a security wall around the US are becoming painfully evident. Following a barrage of complaints from American universities about the increased difficulty of getting [...]

Within the space of less than 12 hours on Wednesday, a trio of events encapsulated the British government's move into the uncharted territory of throwing one of the most sensitive [...]

WASHINGTON -- A Shia nuclear scientist said to be close to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is emerging as one of the frontrunners to become the new prime minister of Iraq. Hussain [...]

BRUSSELS -- Nato's top official told a closed meeting of ambassadors in Brussels yesterday that the alliance's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan was at a critical juncture and could fail. Jaap [...]

Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, the newspaper group behind the Daily Mirror, approved the decision by editor Piers Morgan to publish photographs purportedly depicting UK troops torturing Iraqi [...]

Has the war on terror put science and national security on a collision course? The central imperative of those who govern is to safeguard the public. If they fail, nothing [...]

PATTANI -- Muslims from across southern Thailand flocked to the historic Kru Se mosque yesterday to express their shock and dismay a day after Thai security forces stormed the deeply [...]

The search for a diplomatic resolution of the nuclear stalemate with North Korea is going nowhere. Even if China succeeds in convening a third round of six-party talks, significant progress [...]

What do we really think about strangers in our midst? Just talking about race or immigration can provoke unpleasant discord among political friends, let alone enemies: I found this out [...]

LONDON -- The US army's top think-tank yesterday severely criticised the Bush administration's preparations for attacking Iraq, saying 'the logic of war was flawed' by a belief that the US [...]

BANGKOK -- Malaysia says it will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with neighbouring, Buddhist-majority Thailand, as Bangkok struggles to quell a rising tide of sectarian violence in its predominately Muslim southern provinces. Abdullah [...]

In the town of Zirndorf, near Nuremberg, 15 people are piecing together what must be the world's largest jigsaw puzzle. They have been at it for nine years but, with [...]

News of a high-technology solution to piecing together torn-up Stasi files reminds Observer of a similar, earlier exercise. Some 14 years on from the fall of the East German communist [...]

Criminals who plead guilty and testify against their gang bosses can count on having their sentences reduced under powers proposed for an FBI-style agency to tackle organised crime. Placing such [...]

WASHINGTON -- The national commission investigating the September 11 attacks has already issued eight reports dissecting US failures in intelligence, diplomacy, border controls, airline security and the co-ordination of national [...]

BERLIN and ROME -- Germany could launch a shake-up of its domestic intelligence activities under proposals by government and opposition politicians following the bombing of commuter trains in Spain last [...]

Kofi Annan's high-level panel on international peace and security is roughly a third of the way through its work schedule, on course to report to the secretary-general on December 1. [...]

Tony Blair's attempts to quell the controversy over the Iraq war were again undermined yesterday when the former head of the armed forces revealed that his demand for an assurance [...]

The Ministry of Defence and the defence industry must inject more 'realism' into their procurement process, a Treasury minister warned yesterday, but he denied the government was set on widespread [...]

General Pervez Musharraf has been under an intense diplomatic and media spotlight in the past two weeks after revelations that A. Q. Khan - father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb - [...]