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UK police hunt suspects in terror plot
British police were hunting for accomplices of suspected militants who rammed a burning jeep into a Scottish airport and tried to detonate two car bombs in central London.
Britain's security has been raised to its highest level, "critical", meaning an attack is believed to be imminent.
A police source said a manhunt was under way for an unspecified number of suspects after five people were arrested at the weekend. All five detained were thought to be foreigners, the source said.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, facing a difficult test in his first few days in office, said those behind the botched attacks were associated with al Qaeda.
"We are dealing with a long-term threat," Brown said. He said the attacks could not be justified as opposition to Britain's foreign policy.
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Bush tries to revive rapport with Putin
President Bush sought to rekindle the rapport he once had with Vladimir Putin, as he hosted the Russian president at his family's oceanfront home for talks on Iran, a proposed US missile shield and independence for Kosovo.
A few hours before Putin arrived on Sunday local time, more than a thousand protesters rallied near the Kennebunkport summer house of Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, to vent anger over the Iraq war and US foreign policy.
Ties between the United States and Russia have become badly frayed over issues such as a US plan to base a missile shield in Eastern Europe and Washington's accusations that Russia is rolling back democratic reforms.
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CIA more murderous than ever - Castro
Convalescing Cuban President Fidel Castro has claimed the release of classified CIA documents detailing past abuses was a smoke screen behind which the Bush administration hoped to hide even worse methods.
"I think that this action could be an attempt . . . to make people believe that these methods belong to another era and are no longer used," Castro wrote in an editorial published by the communist country's official media.
He said the actions described in the documents were still being carried out, but in a more brutal manner.
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