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Rising Number Of Westerners Travel To Afghanistan, Pakistan To Become Terrorists
washingtonpost.com | Craig Whitlock | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
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BERLIN -- Midway through a propaganda video released last month by a group calling itself the German Taliban, a surprise guest made an appearance: a c...
Cuba Sends Spies To U.S. To Mislead, Misinform
miamiherald.com | By JUAN O. TAMAYO | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- In the six months after the 9/11 attacks, up to 20 Cubans walked into U.S. embassies around the world and offered information on terrori...
Karzai Vote Falls Below 50 Percent After Hundreds Of Thousands Of Ballots Thrown Out
AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
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KABUL — U.N.-backed fraud investigators on Monday threw out nearly a third of President Hamid Karzai's votes from the August election, undercutt...
David Rohde: Held By The Taliban, Part I
nytimes.com | DAVID ROHDE | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
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THE car's engine roared as the gunman punched the accelerator and we crossed into the open Afghan desert. I was seated in the back between two Afghan ...
Jundallah, Sunni Rebel Group, Claims Responsibility For Revolutionary Guard Attack In Iran
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran vowed retaliation Monday after accusing Pakistan, the U.S. and Britain of aiding Sunni militants who stunned the Islamic reg...
Pakistan Steps Up Offensive In South Waziristan As Petraeus, Kerry Meet Leaders
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's army, in the midst of a major new offensive against Taliban militants, has struck deals to keep two powe...
Charles Wesley Mumbere, Nurse's Aide In U.S., To Be Crowned African King
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his ho...
Goldstone Attacks UN Resolution On His Gaza War Report
Posted 10.16.2009 | World
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Richard Goldstone, the South African who headed a United Nations investigation into the Gaza war, slammed the UN Human Rights Council's endorsement of...
China, Iran Forge Ties Over Oil (VIDEO)
Al Jazeera | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
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Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, has made it clear he does not agree with Western demands for sanctions over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, in...
Peshawar Police Station Hit By Double Blasts, 11 Killed
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
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At least 11 people have died in two explosions near a police office in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said. The bombs were detonated at an in...
UN Row Over Goldstone Report Threatens To Sink Middle East Peace Plan
Times Online | Catherine Philp, Philip Webster and James Hider | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
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The Middle East peace process was on the brink of collapse last night as Britain and other European countries failed to back Israel in a key vote at t...
Champs-Elysees: French Farmers Torch Hay In Protest (PHOTOS)
AP | RACHEL KUROWSKI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
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PARIS "AP"; French farmers struggling with slumping grain prices blanketed the Champs-Elysees with bales of hay and set them ablaze Friday, and blocke...
Afghanistan: 4 US Troops Killed As UN Completes Election Probe
AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
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KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its i...
UN Endorses Goldstone Gaza Report Accusing Israel Of War Crimes
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
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The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a report that accused both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of committing wa...
The Nobel Prize With an Asterisk
Michael Winship | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
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Better to call this prize, as many have, including the Nobel committee, an aspirational award -- the committee expressing its own audacity of hope.
Libya Releases 88 Militants After Rehab Program
AP | KHALED AL-DEEB | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
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TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan government released 88 repentant Islamic militants, some of them belonging to a group with suspected links to al-Qai...
Kim Jong Il, The Man With The Golden Nukes
Foreign Policy Roundtable | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
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This is no evil genius from a James Bond movie. Kim just may be an evil genius, period. The Kim family's rule has lasted so long because son, like father, is calculating and pragmatic.
U.S. Pakistan Aid Bill Threatens To Undermine President Zardari
Posted 10.14.2009 | World
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In India, More Women Demand Toilets Before Marriage
washingtonpost.com | Emily Wax | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
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NILOKHERI, India -- An ideal groom in this dusty farming village is a vegetarian, does not drink, has good prospects for a stable job and promises his...
Russia Resists Hillary Clinton's Pressure, Says Threats Of Iran Sanctions Won't Work
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
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MOSCOW — Russia publicly pushed back Tuesday against U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is ...
Palestinian Memo: Hopes In Obama "Evaporated" After "Zionist Lobby" Pressure
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
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JERUSALEM — The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House o...
Bill Clinton: India Can Outgrow China (VIDEO)
Tomek Gross | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
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Former President Bill Clinton spoke in Chicago this past Saturday at the India Institute of Technology's Global Conference 2009. The focus of his spe...
North Korea Fires 5 Short-Range Missiles: Report
AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea reportedly test-launched five short-range missiles – and may fire more – in what analysts said is a...
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