July 10, 2009
World
The US has released five Iranians it arrested in 2007 in Iraq, Iranian and US officials said Thursday.
Iran’s ambassador in Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi-Qmi, said the five were handed over to the Iraqi government, Iran’s Fars news agency reported Thursday.
Iran said the five were diplomats and had diplomatic immunity, but the US called them “foreign intelligence [...]
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June 22, 2009
World
The United States questioned the Chinese government’s motives for imposing a new mandatory internet filter on all new computers which it believes could restrict free speech, the US State Department said Monday.
US officials from a number of departments met their Chinese counterparts Monday in Beijing to voice their concerns, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.
China [...]
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