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ISTANBUL, Turkey - The United States on Monday moved its consulate in the southern Turkish city of Adana to a more secure building across town amid, a U.S. official said, citing security concerns. In June, a Turkish assailant tossed two bombs into the garden of the consulate, causing minor damage but no injuries. A U.S. official in Ankara said the consulate has been moved to "a more secure location" several miles away. The move had been planned for some time, the official added. The consulate move follows a string of suicide attacks last month in Istanbul that killed 61 people....

A United States plan to move its Jerusalem consular offices from the east side of the city to the south-western Jerusalem neighbourhood of Arnona gathered steam this week with both the city's and the interior ministry's planning and construction committees unanimously approving the new planned site, the municipality said Thursday. The decision to move the consulate from its current location in east Jerusalem to the quiet residential neighbourhood in west Jerusalem was made based on security concerns, US officials said in August, when news of the future move was first announced. The consulate's current site, located just off the city's...

BERLIN: A German-born Syrian suspected of involvement in the September 11 attacks and currently detained in Syria, has admitted he had planned to bomb the US consulate in Hamburg in 1998, a German news report said on Saturday. Mohammed Haydar Zammar admitted during interrogation that he had kept a watch on the consulate in the north German city, but abandoned the plan because of the tight security measures in place there, the magazine Der Spiegel said in its edition to be published on Monday. The magazine, which did not cite its source for the report, did not indicate the circumstances...

KARACHI, Aug 15: The Sindh government has notified the jail trial of all cases against several workers of Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Aalmi and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi for their alleged involvement in terrorist activities. Three activists of Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Aalmi are allegedly involved in car bomb attack on the US Consulate and an abortive attempt to blow up President Musharraf's motorcade while four of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi men are allegedly involved in sectarian murders. Sources told Dawn on Thursday that the provincial home authorities issued on Tuesday as many as seven notifications for the sitting of anti-terrorism courts on the premises of the Central Prison, Karachi,...