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Published Saturday, November 21, 2009
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan expressed fear Friday that a large increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan could push militants across the border into its territory and called on the U.S. to factor in that concern as part of its new war strategy.Meanwhile, a ...
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Published Saturday, November 21, 2009
KABUL -- Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.A strong ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
GENEVA -- Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery -- essentially a b ...
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Published Friday, November 20, 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks in an onslaught by Islamist militants retaliating against an army offe ...
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Published Saturday, November 21, 2009
VATICAN CITY -- One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection -- a 6th century reliquary containing what is revered as fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified -- has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory.The Vatic ...
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Published Saturday, November 21, 2009
The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.He said the U.S. can exert the ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
KABUL -- Under intense pressure to fix his corrupt government, Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to strike a balance in his second inaugural speech Thursday: answer international demands for reform while appeasing his political allies who returned ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama used guns and a sound blaster Wednesday to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on the U.S. vessel.A U.S. naval commander hailed the ship's new defenses and family members rejoiced at the M ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran will not ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for processing, its foreign minister said Wednesday, once again rejecting a U.N. plan aimed at thwarting any attempt by Tehran to make nuclear weapons.Instead, Foreign Min ...
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Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
MELBOURNE, Australia -- A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally Thursday after waking from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.Trishna is already doing well en ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Kurds threatened Tuesday to boycott national elections, days after the country's Sunni vice president threatened to veto the newly passed election law needed to hold the January vote.Barely a week after the long-delayed legislation ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
BEIJING -- President Barack Obama, with China's leader at his side, lifted his sights Tuesday for a broad accord at next month's climate conference that he said would lead to immediate action and "rally the world" toward a solution on global warming. ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Twin Bangladeshi girls who were joined at the top of their heads and shared blood vessels and brain tissue were successfully separated Tuesday after 25 hours of delicate surgery, hospital officials said.It is too early to know ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan -- Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local offici ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinians asked the European Union on Monday to back their plan to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an independent Palestinian state without Israeli consent.The idea of seeking U.N. intervention has been gaining ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
OTTAWA -- News blackouts unjustifiably prevented the public from learning why charges were dropped or suspended for some terror suspects, media lawyers told Canada's Supreme Court on Monday.Several media organizations, including The Associated Press ...
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Published Monday, November 16, 2009
LONDON -- As many as 150,000 poor British children were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, often taken from struggling families under programs intended to provide them with a new start -- and the Empire with a supply of stur ...
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Published Monday, November 16, 2009
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials said Sunday they are preparing to ask the United Nations to endorse an independent state without Israel's consent because they are losing faith in the peace talks.The idea appeared to be largely symbolic. The U.S., ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
BEIRUT -- Iran's greatest master of traditional music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, always avoided open clashes with his country's ruling hard-line clerics.So it was a bombshell when Shajarian -- so revered that his audiences pelt him with roses -- deman ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
SINGAPORE -- President Barack Obama and nearly two dozen fellow leaders from Europe and the Asia-Pacific region agreed Sunday that next month's much-anticipated international climate change meetings will be merely a way station -- not the once hoped- ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million f ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
COMBAT OUTPOST ROCCO, Afghanistan -- Shortly before nightfall, an Afghan farmer slipped into this NATO outpost with a bag of ammunition and gear he'd collected from nearby Taliban positions. It turned out not to be much: pieces of 82-millimeter morta ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Saturday, and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown aimed at choking off the reform movement's last r ...
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