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Associated Press Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey confer April 19 on Capitol Hill in Washington prior to testifying. U.S. officials have settled on two main explanations for why Afghan security forces are turning their guns on their Western partners: infiltration by the Taliban and a U.S.-Afghan culture clash.
Insider attacks imperil US strategy
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Monday he is sticking to his war strategy of using U.S. troops to advise and mentor Afghan forces, even as a suddenly growing number of Americans are be...
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Associated Press Gu Kailai (center), the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, stands during her trial in the Hefei Intermediate People's Court in Hefei in eastern China's Anhui province. Gu was given a suspended death sentence after confessing to killing a British businessman in a case that rocked the country's top political leadership. A suspended sentence is usually commuted to life in prison after several years.
Gu Kailai gets suspended death sentence
HEFEI, China — The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician was given a suspended death sentence Monday after confessing to killing a British businessman by poisoning him with cyanide in a case that ...
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Associated Press Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad (yellow bathing cap) pauses for a rest and hydration with her support crew in the Florida Straits between Cuba and the Florida Keys on Sunday. Nyad is endeavoring to become the first swimmer to transit the Florida Straits from Cuba to the Keys without a shark cage.
Nyad steady in Cuba-Florida attempt
HAVANA — Endurance athlete Diana Nyad forged ahead through the Straits of Florida with renewed vigor Sunday in pursuit of a record 103-mile, unassisted swim in open waters without the aid of a shar...
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Associated Press State police evacuate residents after the Jamapa River overflowed Aug. 10 in the town of Jamapa, Mexico. Former Tropical Storm Helene made landfall on the Mexico coast Saturday, quickly weakening to a tropical depression. The storm posed a threat to areas recovering from flooding spawned by Ernesto last week.
Tropical storm hits Mexico
VERACRUZ, Mexico — Former Tropical Storm Helene headed inland on Mexico’s Gulf Coast early Saturday after making landfall and quickly losing strength, falling to a tropical depression. Helene st...
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Associated Press A bus that was hit by a remote control bomb is lifted by a crane Aug. 7 on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. A U.N. report says 1,145 civilians were killed and 1,954 others injured during the first half of the year, 80 percent of them by militants.
NATO, Taliban in war of words
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bombing at a wedding, a deadly airstrike on a village, grenades in a mosque — hundreds of Afghan civilians are dying violently this summer, while the Taliban and the ...
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Ricard, who took family liquor firm global, dies
PARIS — Patrick Ricard, who transformed a small firm based on his father’s anis-flavored liquor into a global entity with some of the most famous names in alcohol, has died. He was 67. The compa...
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Iran: Israel’s existence ‘insult to all humanity’
TEHRAN, Iran — Israel’s existence is an “insult to all humanity,” Iran’s president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attac...
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Out of gas? Ask passengers to pitch in
PARIS — An emergency layover in Syria’s capital was bad enough. Then passengers on Air France Flight 562 were asked to open their wallets to check if they had enough cash to pay for more fuel. T...
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Associated Press Family members of U.S. Army Spc. Ethan J. Martin received his remains at Silver Wings Flight Services in Sandpoint, Idaho, on Friday. Martin was killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan on Aug. 7.
US asks: Infiltration or bad blood behind frequent Afghan attacks?
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military trainers handed the new recruit, Mohammad Ismail, his AK-47 to defend his remote Afghan village. He turned around and immediately used it, spraying the Americ...
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Associated Press A man walks by a building destroyed in an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday. Rebel footholds in Aleppo have been the target of weeks of Syrian shelling and air attacks as part of wider offensives by President Bashar Assad's regime.
Syria fighting scars Aleppo
ALEPPO, Syria — Entire neighborhoods of Syria’s largest city bear battle scars: buildings toppled by government shells, charred tanks blown up by rebels and trash-strewn no-man’s lands where neithe...
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