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Detained American Muslims, center, are escorted by Pakistani police officers as they arrive to appear in an anti terrorist court in Sargodha, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010.

photo: AP / Anjum Naveed

Pakistan Court Convicts 5 Americans in Terror Case
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Filed at 4:32 a.m. ET SARGODHA, Pakistan (AP) -- A prosecutor says a Pakistani court has convicted five Americans on terror charges and sentenced each to at least 10 years in prison. Rana Bakhtiar made the announcement Thursday in the Punjab town of Sargodha. He says the men have the right to appeal. The five young Muslims from the Washington, D.C....

** GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Police officers recover a body from a hillside grave in Datu Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two souuthern provinces under a state of emergency, giving security forces free hand to pursue gunmen who killed at least 46 people in one of the country's worst election massacres. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

Witness to southern Philippine massacre shot dead
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A key witness to the massacre of 57 people in the Philippines last year has been shot dead, a prosecutor says. Suwaib Upham had admitted to being one of the gunmen who took part in the Maguindanao attack. He had agreed to testify against members of the Ampatuan family, who are on...

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez attends a ceremony at the government house during the visit of Lithuania's President Valdas Adamkus, not seen, in Buenos Aires, Friday, July 18, 2008.

photo: AP / Natacha Pisarenko

Argentina achieves new debt swap
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Argentina says it has achieved a debt swap that moves it a step closer to resolving the difficulties caused by its huge default eight years ago. Creditors agreed to exchange two thirds of its outstanding bad debt for new bonds, in a deal worth around $12bn. The deal...

In this Dec. 9, 2009 file photo, U.S. Central Command commanding Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.

photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File

Afghans relieved at choice of Gen. Petraeus
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KABUL, Afghanistan-Afghan officials expressed relief at the choice of Gen. David Petraeus to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. and NATO commander, believing the U.S. strategy aimed at minimizing civilian casualties and bolstering the Afghan government would continue. Afghans had warned that the dismissal of McChrystal would disrupt...

Out of work fishermen hired by BP PLC and crew boat workers lay oil booms in preparation for the looming oil spill from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig at Elephant Pass, in a tributary of the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana Sunday, May 2, 2010.

photo: AP / Gerald Herbert

BP reinstalls cap on Gulf of Mexico oil leak
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HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Wednesday it had reinstalled an oil-siphoning cap on its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico and resumed collecting crude while the Obama administration appealed a court ruling that blocked its six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. Gas and oil continue to leak at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill...

In this photo provided by Government House, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard smiles as she is sworn in by the Governor General at Government House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, June 24, 2010. Australia has its first female prime minister after the ruling party dumped Prime Minsiter Kevin Rudd and installed his deputy, Gillard, as leader.

photo: AP / Government House

Australia gets first female PM as Rudd ousted
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Canberra: A sudden revolt within Australia's ruling party gave the country its first woman prime minister, who promised Thursday to safeguard her government's reforms in education, health and industrial law. Julia Gillard had been deputy to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd since their Labor Party swept to power in a landslide election victory in 2007. In...

Police and rescue workers inspect the Castelldefels Playa station where a high-speed train passing through the station struck a group of people crossing the tracks, in Castelldefels, Spain, Thursday, June 24, 2010.

photo: AP / Manu Fernandez

12 killed as train hits revelers crossing track in Spain
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CASTELLDEFELS - At least 12 people were killed when a high-speed passenger train slammed into a group of revelers crossing a railway track in northeastern Spain, regional authorities and media said Thursday. At least 13 others were injured in the accident at the Castelldefels Playa station south of Barcelona at around 11:30pm (2130...

President Barack Obama meets with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room of the White House, June 23, 2010.

photo: White House / Pete Souza

Obama fires McChrystal, names Petraeus as replacement
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Compiled by Daily Star staff Thursday, June 24, 2010 - Powered by US President Barack Obama fired his top Afghanistan commander on Wednesday over inflammatory comments that angered the White House and threatened to undermine the war effort. Calling it the “right thing for our mission in Afghanistan,” Obama relieved General Stanley...

Israeli Arab activist Amir Makhoul, centre, arrives at Haifa's district court Thursday, May, 27, 2010.

photo: AP / Oded Balilty

Targeting Israel's Palestinians
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Israel's Palestinian minority has always been subject to discriminatory policies, but some now say that a more open conflict between the Israeli establishment and its Palestinian citizens appears to be brewing. In May, Ameer Makhoul, the director of Ittijah, a network for Palestinian NGOs, was taken from his home in the middle of the night by the...

File - Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right), Prime Minister of Turkey, addresses an informal meeting of the General Assembly, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

photo: UN / Marie Gandois

Turkey and the US: From the Eastern Question to the Western Question
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Does the Turkish-Ottoman Empire have a future? This was the "Eastern Question" that started in the 18th century, as Austria and Russia seized Turkish-Ottoman possessions in the Balkans. In the 19th century, France and England gained control of more territory in the Middle East. However, it was...