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Key Cuban dissident detained
AFP, Havana
Leading Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas was arrested by police after an argument with agents guarding his home, his mother and activists said Friday.
Farinas, who has gone on hunger strike about two dozen times against the regime, was arrested late Thursday in front of his home in the central city of Santa Clara, his mother Alicia Hernandez told AFP
Farinas won the Sakharov prize — the European parliament's top human rights award — in 2010 after his 135-day hunger strike to press for the release of
Egypt blocks 120 tunnels in Sinai
AFP, Cairo
Egyptian military engineers have blocked 120 tunnels used for smuggling to and from the Gaza Strip since the start of operations in the neighbouring Sinai Pensinsula, security officials said yesterday.
"Tunnel entrances are being demolished every day and the operation will continue until all underground passageways are shut," one official told AFP.
The military sent in tanks and soldiers into the lawless peninsula which neighbours both Gaza and Israel after gunmen killed 16 soldiers in an attack on an army outpost on August 5.
Egypt is also searching for 120 wanted militants and believes around 1,600 extremists, including foreigners, are hiding out in the Sinai, the official MENA news agency reported Wednesday.
9/11 hearings delayed to October
AFP, Cuba
Preliminary hearings for the trial of five alleged 9/11 plotters canceled this week overTropical Storm Isaac are now set for mid-October, the US military said Friday.
The hearings, at which confessed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is due to appear, are now due to take place from October 15-19 at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the US military commissions website.
Another series of hearings is set for December 3-7.
The hearings had already been postponed once so that the defendants could observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and then pushed back a day when a derailed freight train in Maryland caused
Three killed in north Iraq attacks
AFP, Mosul
Separate shootings in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul yesterday left three people dead, including a local councilman, security and medical officials said.
In one attack, gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint in Mosul, 350 kilometres from Baghdad, killing a policeman and a civilian, said police.
In another incident, city councilor Ibrahim Yunis was gunned down outside his home in southeastern Mosul, according to Juburi and Khaled al-Rifaie, a