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Well-known Afghan commander among 23 dead in blast
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who w...
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Associated Press A sniper with Royal Air Force Regiment Sniper sights through his scope from inside an RAF Puma helicopter at RAF Northolt ahead of carrying out air security duties for Op Olympic on Friday in London. Royal Air Force Puma Helicopters and Typhoon fighter jets along with Royal Navy Sea King helicopters are arriving at RAF Northolt ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games to carry out air security. Aircraft that fail to comply with procedures within a restricted airspace zone around Olympic venues could be subject to "lethal force" from the military, it was revealed Friday.
Security boss sorry for spoiled contract
LONDON — The boss of British security group G4S said Saturday he was sorry that his company had bungled the contract to help protect the 2012 Olympic Games, a humbling televised apology that follow...
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Associated Press A statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, unveiled Saturday in Gdansk, Poland, shows the late leaders who are highly revered in Poland for their role in helping to topple communism.
Poles honor John Paul, Reagan with statue
GDANSK, Poland — Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on Saturday, honoring two men widely credited in this Eastern European country with helpi...
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Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the presidential palace Saturday in Cairo. Clinton hoped to use her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president to steer him toward opening a dialogue with the military that could end the country's political crisis.
Clinton to Egypt’s Morsi: Find way out of crisis
CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt’s new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of prese...
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London’s Times demands that it simply stop raining
LONDON — Just. Stop. Raining. That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons’ growing frustration with months of miserable weather. ...
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Sophisticated drug tunnels found
TIJUANA, Mexico — Four drug smuggling tunnels equipped with lighting and ventilation — including one with a railcar system — have been discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in less than a week, t...
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Massacre in Syria kills more than 100
BEIRUT — Syrian activists reported a new massacre late Thursday in the central Hama province, saying regime forces killed more than 100 people in shelling and other attacks. There were few detai...
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Gendarmes use blankets to hide victims of an avalanche at Chamonix rescue base, French Alps, Thursday, July, 12, 2012. An avalanche in the French Alps swept six European climbers to their deaths on a slope leading to Mont Blanc, and left at least nine others injured and several climbers unaccounted for, authorities said. Two climbers were rescued and emergency crews are searching for the missing. A group of 28 climbers from Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Denmark and Serbia are believed to be in the expedition caught in the avalanche that was about 4,000 meters (13,1000 feet) high on the north face of Mont Maudit, part of the Mont Blanc range. (AP Photo)
9 dead in Mont Blanc avalanche
CHAMONIX, France — They set out before dawn, hoping to conquer a mountaineering classic: Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s highest peak. But below the prized summit, a climber is believed to have accide...
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Phongsavath Souliyalat, who lost his forearms and sight from blasts of an unexploded bomb, waits to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Cooperative Orthotic Prosthetic Enterprise Center (COPE), in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. COPE provides free prosthetics to those who need them including the victims of blasts of unexploded Vietnam War era ordnance, (AP Photo/Brendon Smialowski, Pool)
Clinton reaches out to citizens of Laos in visit
VIENTIANE, Laos — Decades after the U.S. gave Laos a horrific distinction as the world’s most heavily bombed nation per person, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged Wednesday to help g...
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Associated Press An Egyptian military honor guard stands in formation at a graduation ceremony attended by President Mohammed Morsi and other political and military dignitaries July 9 at a military base east of Cairo. Egypt's highest court insisted Monday that its ruling that led to the dissolution of the Islamist-dominated parliament was final and binding, setting up a showdown with the country's newly elected president.
New crisis looms in Egypt
CAIRO — A new showdown loomed in Egypt on Monday as the country’s highest court stood by its ruling that dissolved parliament last month, challenging the new Islamist president’s plans to reconvene...
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