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Insurgents attack military side of Afghan airport
KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents on Monday attacked the military side of Kabul’s international airport, which houses a NATO headquarters, and explosions and gunfire were occurring, Afghan army and p...
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Associated Press Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif speaks Saturday during a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Pakistan summons US envoy to protest fatal drone strike
ISLAMABAD — Just days after taking power, Pakistan’s new government summoned a top U.S. envoy Saturday to lodge a protest over a U.S. drone strike, suggesting that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s tea...
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Associated Press Vice-minister of South Korea's Unification Ministry Kim Nam-sik (right) and the head of South Korea's working-level delegation Chun Hae-sung walk to a conference hall at the Office of the South Korea-North Korea Dialogue in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday before the delegation leaves to Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. North and South Korea will meet in the village straddling their heavily armed border Sunday for the first government-level talks on the peninsula in more than two years as they try to lower tension and restore stalled projects that once symbolized their rapprochement.
2 Koreas talk in border village after tensions
SEOUL, South Korea — Government delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at a “truce village” on their heavily armed border aimed at setting ground-rules for a higher-lev...
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Car bomb kills 7 people in central Syrian city
BEIRUT — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday in Syria’s central city of Homs, tearing through an area largely populated by the regime’s Alawite sect and killing seven peopl...
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Gunfight in Libya leaves 7 dead
TRIPOLI, Libya — A gunfight between protesters and former rebels aligned with the military in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi left seven people dead on Saturday, a health official said, the latest...
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Insider attack kills 3 Americans
KABUL, Afghanistan — A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country’s east on Saturday, killing three of them, while an attacker with a grena...
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South Africa: Mandela has lung infection
JOHANNESBURG — South Africans on Saturday said their thoughts were with former President Nelson Mandela, who was in “serious but stable” condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for ...
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Pakistan officials say US drone strike kills 7
PESHAWAR , Pakistan — A suspected U.S. drone strike killed seven militants in Pakistan near the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The missiles struck a compound in ...
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EU defends the right to peaceful protest in Turkey
ISTANBUL — A senior European Union official on Friday criticized Turkish police’s harsh crackdown on protesters in the last week, telling an audience that included the prime minister that abusers s...
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Syrian troops press offensive
BEIRUT — Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters pressed forward with their offensive in the country’s opposition-held heartland on Friday, taking two small villages and entering a third near a ...
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