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• Al Qaeda-Linked Threat Prompts U.S. to Close Middle East Embassies on Sunday
• State Dept. 'horrified' by WikiLeaks releases
• Manning leaks caused diplomatic 'horror and disbelief:' testimony
• Data, earnings push TSX higher, drive energy gains
• Snowden's WikiLeaks 'adviser' takes public role
• Sarah Harrison, Snowden's WikiLeaks 'adviser'
• Playboy, Penthouse get the ax at military stores
• Iraq sees highest monthly death toll in 5 years
• Kerry visit casts Pakistan more as partner than pariah
• Why bombings and jailbreaks won't tip Iraq back into civil war
• A remarkable day in the story of Internet privacy
• Will Iran Get a Bomb—or Be Bombed Itself—This Year?
• Over 1,000 Iraqis killed in July, highest monthly toll since 2008: U.N.
• UN says over 1,000 people killed in Iraq in July
• Iraq war logs in Manning case 'hit us in the face': U.S. officer
• Defense Industry Mulls Murky Future in Time of Sequester
• The U.S. Can't Connect a Single Death to Bradley Manning's Leaks
• Pentagon warns of tough trade-offs in face of looming cuts

Al Qaeda-Linked Threat Prompts U.S. to Close Middle East Embassies on Sunday Posted: 01 Aug 2013 03:31 PM PDT The U.S. will temporarily shut down all of its embassies in the Middle East (and some in Asia) on Sunday in response to a possible threat connected to al-Qaeda, NBC News is reporting. They're not specifying which embassies will be closed, or how many.

State Dept. 'horrified' by WikiLeaks releases Posted: 01 Aug 2013 03:22 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — State Department workers were horrified by WikiLeaks' publication of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables leaked by Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an agency official testified Thursday.

Manning leaks caused diplomatic 'horror and disbelief:' testimony Posted: 01 Aug 2013 03:03 PM PDT By Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. diplomats reacted with "horror and disbelief" when WikiLeaks began publishing classified information in 2010, a U.S. State Department official testified on Thursday at the court-martial sentencing hearing for Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted of the leaks. To try to establish the extent of damage caused by the anti-secrecy website's exposure of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents and video, prosecutor Captain Angel Overgaard asked the official, Elizabeth Dibble, to describe the reaction. ...

Data, earnings push TSX higher, drive energy gains Posted: 01 Aug 2013 02:15 PM PDT By John Tilak TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index climbed on Thursday after a burst of data from China, Europe and the United States showed the global economic recovery was strengthening, boosting the price of oil and fueling a rally in shares of energy producers. Investors also digested a wave of quarterly results, from industry bellwethers such as Suncor Energy Inc , Barrick Gold Corp and Enbridge Inc . U.S. crude oil prices jumped more than 2.5 percent, driven by supply problems in Africa and the Iraq as well as the news on the global economy. ...

Snowden's WikiLeaks 'adviser' takes public role Posted: 01 Aug 2013 01:10 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — The whole time Edward Snowden has been seeking asylum, WikiLeaks staffer Sarah Harrison has been by his side.

Sarah Harrison, Snowden's WikiLeaks 'adviser' Posted: 01 Aug 2013 12:19 PM PDT The whole time Edward Snowden has been seeking asylum, WikiLeaks staffer Sarah Harrison has been by his side. She has emerged as a central, if mysterious, figure in the saga that has taken Snowden across ...

Playboy, Penthouse get the ax at military stores Posted: 01 Aug 2013 12:17 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Playboy, Penthouse and other sex-themed magazines will no longer be sold at Army and Air Force exchanges — a move described by the stores' operators as a business decision based on falling sales, and not a result of recent pressure from anti-pornography activists.

Iraq sees highest monthly death toll in 5 years Posted: 01 Aug 2013 11:39 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — More than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq in July, the highest monthly death toll in five years, the U.N. said Thursday, a grim figure that shows rapidly deteriorating security as sectarian tensions soar nearly two years after U.S. troops withdrew from the country.

Kerry visit casts Pakistan more as partner than pariah Posted: 01 Aug 2013 09:23 AM PDT On an unannounced visit to Islamabad late Wednesday, United States Secretary of State John Kerry has moved one step closer to rekindling talks of a strategic partnership with Pakistan. The visit is the first by a high-ranking US official since the election of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in May.

Why bombings and jailbreaks won't tip Iraq back into civil war Posted: 01 Aug 2013 09:01 AM PDT Despite the Iraqi government's attempt to combat a record wave of bombings, the attacks across central and southern Iraq are paralyzing the country, leaving many Iraqis to suffer through a long hot summer with neither public services nor security.

A remarkable day in the story of Internet privacy Posted: 01 Aug 2013 08:28 AM PDT Four significant events on Wednesday have pushed the public debate about government surveillance and Internet privacy to new levels—and have led to new questions about the NSA and its spying activities.

Will Iran Get a Bomb—or Be Bombed Itself—This Year? Posted: 01 Aug 2013 07:02 AM PDT CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- That Iran's nuclear challenge poses the most urgent threat to peace and security today is widely agreed across the national security community, and many argue that 2013 will be the decisive year for this issue. As former Mossad head Ephraim Halevy notes, Israel "has long believed that mid-2013 would be an hour of decision in its dealings with Iran." Henry Kissinger has recently warned that "we are in the last year where you can say a negotiation can conceivably succeed.... If nothing happens, the president will have to make some really tough decisions."

Over 1,000 Iraqis killed in July, highest monthly toll since 2008: U.N. Posted: 01 Aug 2013 04:44 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Iraqis were killed in sectarian violence in July, the highest monthly death toll since 2008, the United Nations said on Thursday, as Sunni Islamist groups stepped up their insurgency against Iraq's Shi'ite-led government. Most of the 1,057 victims were civilians, killed in a relentless campaign of bombings and shootings that some Iraqis fear could drag the country into another war. ...

UN says over 1,000 people killed in Iraq in July Posted: 01 Aug 2013 03:50 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.N. mission in Iraq says more than 1,000 people have been killed in violence across the country last month, the highest monthly death toll in years.

Iraq war logs in Manning case 'hit us in the face': U.S. officer Posted: 01 Aug 2013 02:09 AM PDT By Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army was overwhelmed when WikiLeaks published more than 700,000 secret diplomatic and war documents handed over by soldier Bradley Manning, a retired officer testified in the sentencing phase of the convicted private's court-martial. ...

Defense Industry Mulls Murky Future in Time of Sequester Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:27 PM PDT As the defense budget shrinks, industry is being forced to adjust its strategies. Tom Arseneault and David Herr, executive vice presidents for products and services, respectively, at BAE Systems, speak with National Journal Daily about the challenges. Edited excerpts follow.

The U.S. Can't Connect a Single Death to Bradley Manning's Leaks Posted: 31 Jul 2013 06:47 PM PDT After Tuesday's verdict, the sentencing hearings for Bradley Manning got underway on Wednesday with something of a setback for the government's prosecution: the counter-intelligence official in charge of investigating the impact of the Wikileaks disclosures couldn't find a single instance of someone getting killed because of Manning's leaks.

Pentagon warns of tough trade-offs in face of looming cuts Posted: 31 Jul 2013 05:47 PM PDT By David Alexander and Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday pledged $40 billion in new Pentagon spending reductions over the next decade, but warned that additional cuts required by law posed stark choices that could bend or break the president's defense strategy. Hagel, unveiling his four-month Strategic Choices and Management Review, said the Pentagon would cut $40 billion in overhead from its agencies and headquarters units over the next decade. ...

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