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Afghan children are seen next to a soldier from the 5th Striker Brigades, as he stands guard on a road in a village on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) southeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan,Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009.
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti
Obama Issues Order for More Troops in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON - President Obama has issued his order to send more troops to Afghanistan, communicating his decision to military leaders late Sunday afternoon during a meeting in the Oval Office, and will spend Monday speaking with foreign leaders to share with them the broad outlines of his new strategy, the White House said. "The commander-in-chief...
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Afghan National Army commandos, from the 205th Kandak, and their special operations counterparts conducted a cordon and search of the Shawal Bazaar in Kandahar, Afghanistan, April 29, 2009, in order to disrupt a Taliban safe haven.
photo: US Army / Spc. Joseph Wilson
Can the U.S. Woo Afghanistan Taliban to Switch Sides?
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While much of the focus on Tuesday's unveiling of President Obama's revamped Afghanistan strategy will be on the number of U.S. troops he's expected to send, that decision is really a sideshow to the critical battle now under way on the ground. Far more important to prospects of victory in Afghanistan is jump-starting a moribund effort to woo...
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Law enforcement officers enter a self-storage area to search near the scene where four Lakewood, Wash., police officers were fatally shot while sitting in a coffee shop, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, in Parkland, Wash
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Police say suspect in police shootings is in Seattle house, wounded and possibly dead
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SEATTLE - A suspect in the slaying of four police officers who were gunned down in a suburban coffee shop was surrounded by police at a Seattle house early Monday, wounded and possibly dead, police said. Negotiators were trying to communicate with Maurice Clemmons, 37, using loudspeakers, explosions and even a robot to try to prod him from hiding....
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A view of the magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator, which is scheduled to be switched on in November, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, March 22, 2007. Some 2,000 scientists from 155 institutes in 36 countries are working together to build the CMS particle detec
photo: AP / Keystone, Martial Trezzini
Atom-smasher breaks proton acceleration mark
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The world's largest atom smasher broke the record for proton acceleration Monday, sending beams of the particles at 1.18 trillion electron volts around the massive machine. The Large Hadron Collider eclipsed the previous high of 0.98 TeV held by Fermilab, outside Chicago, since 2001, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as...
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An Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007. Diplomats from the Nonaligned Movement, Arab League and Group of 77 tour
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Iran - more sanctions after new defiance?
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Iran's announcement that it intends to build another 10 uranium enrichment plants is a typically defiant response to international demands for it to stop work on a previously-secret underground site. Whether this is more than a rhetorical rebuff remains to be determined. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad linked the sites to an expansion of...
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File - Britain's Attorney General Lord Goldsmith, leaves his home in central London, Thursday, April 28, 2005.
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Goldsmith was not bullied into declaring Iraq invasion legal, says Blair
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Former prime minister denies claims that then attorney general had been pressured to change stance over legality of conflict Tony Blair has denied claims that Lord Goldsmith was bullied into declaring the invasion of Iraq legal. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images...
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Police officers and medical assistants escort defendant John Demjanjuk, who sits in a wheel chair, during a trial break in the country court in Munich, southern Germany, on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.
photo: AP / Christof Stache
Demjanjuk Goes on Trial in Germany
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By DAVID RISING Associated Press Writer MUNICH November 30, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in... FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in Cleveland, Ohio. The 89-year-old goes on trial Monday in Munich on 27,900...
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Head of Iran's mission to the IAEA Ali Akbar Salehi talks to journalists prior to the start of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) 35 nation board of governors meeting on Monday, June 16, 2003 at Vienna's International Center.
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Iran Says UN Criticism Prompted New Nuclear Plans
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IAEA Resolution Forced Iran To Approve Plans For 10 New Uranium Enrichment Sites Says VP Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran had no intention of building 10 new nuclear facilities until it was strongly rebuked by the U.N. nuclear watchdog over its nuclear activities, a top official said Monday. Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi...
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Activists and survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster that killed 2,000 and harmed thousands more protest against Dow Chemical Co outside it's office in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
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Indians still haunted by industrial accident
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BHOPAL ' Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen. The gas that swept through her poor neighborhood left her nearly blind in one eye, menopausal at 36, with...
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The Dubai International Financial Center, DIFC, main building, is seen during the Dubai International Financial Exchange opening ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday Sept. 26, 2005.
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Sale of Dubai property bonds frozen
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Nakheel, Dubai's property developer and part of the heavily-indebted Dubai World conglomerate, has asked Nasdaq to stop trading its bonds. The bonds have been taken off the Dubai bourse, Nasdaq said on their website on Monday. Markets in Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), fell on opening after the Eid al-Adah holidays. Some major...
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A Florida Highway Patrol vehicle enters the front gate to the Isleworth community where Tiger Woods is a resident in Windermere, Fla., Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009 (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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When I heard about the shortest and yet one of the most famous drives of Tiger Woods' life, my first thought was: There were no security people around? From what we've seen and read, Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegen, were the only two adults on his...
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo receives a warm applause from the local leaders of the 2nd District of Pampanga during a weekend meeting at Malacañang's Heroes' Hall.
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MANILA, Philippines - (UPDATE 2) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will run for a congressional seat in the second district of her home province in Pampanga. Arroyo, who made the announcement in an interview aired live over government-run station...
photo: OPS-NIB / Marcelino Pascua

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Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker going to US read more
In this picture released by U.S. Navy, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008, Somali pirates in small boats are seen alongside the hijacked "Faina". Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering vessels large and small and leaving the world's maritime powers frustrated about how to stop the seafaring bandits. Now, however, momentum is growing for coordinated international action to back up the sharp response after the stunning seizure late last month of a Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry as the pirates quickly found themselves encircled by U.S. warships and receiving only silence to their demands for millions of dollars in ransom.
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November 30, 2009  MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED (Associated Press Writer) Quick Summary EU: Somali pirates seize super tanker of crude oil heading from Saudi Arabia to the US NAIROBI, Kenya - NAIROBI, (AP) — Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude...
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Oil rises to near $77 as Dubai debt fears ease read more
A Coast Guard boat passes fuel oil storage tanks Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 in Bayonne, N.J. The brief respite for consumers at the pump may soon come to an abrupt end as preparations for Tropical Storm Gustav curtail refining activity near the U.S. coast. Gasoline supplies already have fallen sharply for four straight weeks and further strains on production will likely exacerbate the situat
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Oil prices rebounded to near $77 a barrel Monday in Asia as panic about the global fallout from Dubai's debt problems abated. Benchmark crude for January delivery was up 52 cents to $76.57 at late afternoon Singapore...
photo: AP / Mark Lennihan

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A man walks out of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Japan's central bank voted Friday to cut its key interest rate for the first time in seven years, finally joining central banks around the world in lowering borrowing costs to mitigate the impact of the global financial c
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By Leika Kihara November 30, 2009 NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - The head of the Bank of Japan said the bank will act decisively in the event of renewed financial market turmoil, his strongest hint yet at fresh support for the economy that analysts say...
photo: AP / Katsumi Kasahar

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26/11 trial: Kasab's lawyer Abbas Kazmi sacked for 'non-cooperation' read more
Abbas Kazmi, second left, the newly appointed lawyer for the Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Kasab charged in last year's Mumbai terror attacks, is escorted by security personnel as he arrives at the Arthur Road Jail where a special bombproof courtroom has been set up, in Mumbai, India, Friday, April 17, 2009
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Mumbai, Nov 30 (PTI): The special 26/11 trial court today sacked Abbas Kazmi, the defence counsel for Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab for ''non-cooperation'', three days after it showed leniency and allowed him to continue accepting an unconditional...
photo: AP / Gautam Singh

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In this Nov. 17, 2009 file photo Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, United Arab Emirates Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai, center, visits the Air show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Dubai ruler enjoyed rock-star adoration because he led the sand-to-skyscraper transformation of his desert fiefdom, so much that many world investors believed his claims that glitzy Dubai wouldn't be touched by the global financial storm. After the eruption of Dubai's debt mess, the looming question ahead of Monday's resumption of world trading is not only if Sheik Mohammed can regain trust, but survive the anger of his fellow Gulf rulers.
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