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Victims of the floods in Pakistan wait to be evacuated in Sanawan near Multan in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.

photo: AP / Khallid Tanveer

Losing Vietnam, Winning Pakistan?
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It is a sad irony of fate, that Americans have allowed their leaders to define foreign policy and national security interests within a conceptual framework of militarism and war. It is probably even more tragic that the definitions of losing or winning are usually determined by how many of the...

New Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, right, receives flowers after he was sworn in as Poland's President inauguration ceremony at the parliament as wife Anna looks on, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.

photo: AP / Czarek Sokolowski

Poland's new pro-European president is sworn in
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WARSAW, Poland - Poland's Europe-friendly and pro-business new president was sworn in Friday in a ceremony overshadowed by the plane crash that killed his predecessor. Bronislaw Komorowski's inauguration before Poland's parliament came after a moment of silence for Lech Kaczynski and the 95 other people killed in the crash near Smolensk, Russia, on...

A Kashmiri covers himself with a plastic sheet as he rides a bicycle in the rain in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.

photo: AP / Altaf Qadri

Flash floods kill 58 in India's Himalayan region
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Soldiers have been called in to carry out rescue operations after overnight flash floods killed at least 58 people around the main town of India's Himalayan region of Ladakh. The region shares borders with Pakistan where the country's worst floods in 80 years have swept through the economically vital Punjab region, killing over 1,600 people and...

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, talks with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari as they meet at Chequers near Princes Risborough in England, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.

photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool

Cameron and Zardari holding talks
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David Cameron and Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari are set to meet for formal talks as the two leaders attempt to smooth relations following a diplomatic spat between Britain and Pakistan. The Prime Minister will pledge Britain's support for "stability, security, democracy and prosperity" in the country during the talks between the...

Al-Shabaab islamist fighters patrol to provide security to Somali demonstrators in Mogadishu, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The demonstrators gathered in an open square north east of the capital Mogadishu to show their support for the Palestinian people

photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor

14 accused of helping Somali terrorists
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WASHINGTON - The government announced yesterday that it has charged 14 people as participants in "a deadly pipeline'' to Somalia that routed money and fighters from the United States to the terrorist group Al Shabab. The indictments unsealed in Minneapolis, San Diego, and Mobile, Ala., reflect "a disturbing trend'' of recruitment efforts targeting...

People look for survivors in the wreckage of a passenger bus which plunged into the flooded River Jhelum in Ghari Duppata near Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.

photo: AP / Aftab Ahmed

Four million Pakistanis bear the brunt of floods, says UN
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GENEVA; Pakistan's worst floods in generations brought on by torrential monsoon rains have affected more than four million people and killed some 1,600, the United Nations estimated today. "Altogether, more than four million people are in a way or another affected," said Manuel Bessler, who...

A woman joins a candle vigil in front of the illuminated Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.

photo: AP / Shuji Kajiyama

US attends first Hiroshima atomic bomb anniversary
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The Japanese city of Hiroshima is marking the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack. For the first time, a representative of the...

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination.

photo: AP / Susan Walsh

Senate confirms Elena Kagan to Supreme Court
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Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in as the nation's 112th Supreme Court justice on Saturday, making one-third of the nation's highest court women for the first time in history. Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Roberts telephoned...

A man holds a poster showing Osama bin Laden, prime suspect behind the terror attacks in the U.S., next to one of the exploding Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, during a rally in the center of Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 15, 2001.

photo: AP / Peter Dejong

Pakistani al-Qaeda 'main US threat'
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The core leadership of al-Qaeda in Pakistan was the primary threat to US homeland security last year, according to a US State Department report. The annual Country Reports on Terrorism, released on Thursday, also states that al-Qaeda is becomming a greater force in Africa, where it threatens many nations, particularly in the Maghreb and...

A U.S. Marine with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 2nd MEF, runs across a rooftop for more ammunition, during a firefight against Taliban in the village of Dahaneh Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.

photo: AP / Julie Jacobson

Pentagon demands Wikileaks files
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The Pentagon has demanded that the whistle-blower website Wikileaks hand over all classified US military documents it has not yet published and remove existing material posted online. Wikileaks is in possession of about 15,000 secret papers relating to the war in Afghanistan which it did not publish to protect...