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Karzai, Taliban Condemn Desecration; Military Questions Pair of Marines
Pentagon officials went to lengths Thursday to avert damage to the U.S. war effort from a video that shows a group of Marines urinating on militants' corpses.
Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion ResidentsBrandon Turbeville Infowars.com 01/13/2012 | North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died AP 12/20/2011 |
 Recently, India has launched a nationwide program involving the allocation of a Unique Identification Number (UID) to every single one of its 1.2 billion residents. Each of the numbers will be tied to the biometric data of the recipient using three different forms of information – fingerprints, iris scans, and pictures of the face. All ten digits of the hand will be recorded, and both eyes will be scanned. |  Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69. |
Secret U.S., Taliban talks reach turning pointMissy Ryan, Warren Strobel and Mark Hosenball Reuters 12/20/2011 | American sentenced to prison for Thai royal insultVEE INTARAKRATUG and ALISA TANG AP 12/09/2011 |
 After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose ultimate goal is to end the Afghan war. |  A court in Thailand sentenced a U.S. citizen to two and a half years in prison Thursday for defaming the country's royal family by translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of the king and posting them online. |
Beijing, Shanghai Overtake Hong Kong in Living Cost CRIENGLISH.com 12/08/2011 | North Korea making missile able to hit U.S.Bill Gertz The Washington Times 12/08/2011 |
 Beijing and Shanghai are now Asia 's seventh and eighth most expensive places to live in, overtaking Hong Kong, according to the results of a survey released on Tuesday. |  New intelligence indicates that North Korea is moving ahead with building its first road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, an easily hidden weapon capable of hitting the United States, according to Obama administration officials. |
Taiwan spy agency denies 'magnetic' attack Yahoo! Canada 12/07/2011 | Astonishing accident involving eight Ferraris 'world's most expensive car crash'Andrew Hough Telegraph 12/07/2011 |
 Taiwan's intelligence agency on Tuesday flatly rejected allegations that it had launched "electromagnetic wave" attacks against the running mate of an opposition presidential candidate. |  A fleet of high-performance cars, including eight Ferraris, has been involved in one of the most expensive accidents in history after an astonishing multi-car pile-up in Japan. |
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