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The US president is set to propose a three-year partial freeze on domestic spending in his 2011 budget, administration officials say. The freeze, to be announced in Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Wednesday, would exclude defence, veteran affairs, homeland security and spending on international affairs, the officials said. "We are in the midst of fighting a war and have security needs. We're going to fund those ... Full story

US authorities have charged three men with plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper and helping to plan the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, in which 160 people died. Ilyas Kashmiri was indicted in Chicago on Thursday for his role in plotting a revenge attack against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. The Danish newspaper published cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in 2005, setting ... Full story