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An Afghan soldier stands guard in a street corner in Shindand, district of Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, March 13, 2010.

photo: AP / Reza Shirmohammadi

US Army hearing on claim Afghans 'killed for sport'
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Washington: The US Army holds its first hearing on Monday in a grisly war crimes case that charges five soldiers with killing Afghan civilians for sport and plotting a cover-up. Authorities say the troops opened fire on the Afghan civilians in unprovoked assaults over several months in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, with some of the...

Relatives of the 33 miners trapped at the San Jose mine, wave Chilean flags to celebrate the arrival of a truck carrying the first capsule that will be used to pull the miners out of the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010.

photo: AP / Aliosha Marquez

Chile miners: Family joy as rescue capsule arrives
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A cage specially built to help rescue 33 men trapped underground in a mine in Chile has arrived at the mine head. The steel...

An Indian paramilitary soldier checks the identity card of a Kashmiri civilian on a motorcycle during curfew in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010.

photo: AP / Mukhtar Khan

New Central formula for Kashmir
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Vinay Kumar Dialogue process to resume...

Ed Miliband, newly-elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, waves to members of his party following the announcement at the start of the party's annual conference, in Manchester, England, Saturday Sept. 25, 2010.

photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis

Ed Miliband elected leader of Britain's Labor Party
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MANCHESTER, United KingdomBritain's opposition Labor Party on Saturday chose Ed Miliband as its new leader by a knife-edge margin over his better-known older brother David. The former climate change minister won by 50.65 percent to 49.35 percent for ex-foreign secretary David, who had been the frontrunner up until the final days of the four-month...

Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, at United Nations headquarters.

photo: AP / Mary Altaffer

Abbas gives Israel ultimatum: Settlements or peace
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United Nations: The United States launched a last gasp effort today to avert the collapse of Middle East talks, but Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said Israel had to choose between peace and its settlements. Amid frantic diplomatic efforts to persuade the Palestinians not to leave the new US-organized negotiations, Abbas condemned "the mentality...

Soldiers attached to 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment breach a door during a clearing mission.

photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Sean Mulligan

Has the U.S. Forgotten Why al Qaeda Is in Iraq?
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Faisal Shahzad, the suspect who pleaded guilty in the failed Times Square bombing, characterized himself as "part of the answer to the U.S. terrorizing the Muslim people," it was akin to Osama bin Laden's message: "The Towers of Lebanon." Delivered in October 2004, bin Laden, for the first...

A laborer carries sand on a pushcart at a metro construction site in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010.

photo: AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh

Commonwealth Games Federation chief Fennell says more work needed
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NEW DELHI: Commonwealth Games Federation President Michael Fennell said on Saturday there was still a considerable amount of work to be done and there was great concern about the security and safety of athletes and officials. "There is still a lot of work to be done and it's not over yet," Fennell told a news conference a day after he...

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, not in photo, speak to the news media at the airport after her trip to the Mideast, in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010.

photo: AP / Alex Brandon, Pool

Peace talks in jeopardy, Clinton and Abbas meet
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NEW YORK — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent nearly a half-hour Friday meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the Obama administration tried to prevent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from collapsing. The Palestinians have threatened to walk out of the talks if Israel does not extend a slowdown in West Bank...

An earthquake survivor tries to set up her tent after it fell down due to heavy rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.

photo: AP / Ramon Espinosa

5 killed as storm blasts through Haiti tent camps
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A freak storm blasted through Haiti's capital on Friday, killing at least five earthquake survivors as it tore down trees, billboards and tent homes, authorities said. Three adults and two children were killed in the tarp, tent and shack camps that still dominate Port-au-Prince more than eight months after the...

Taiwanese veteran soldiers and anti-Japan protesters hold a banner reading "Protect Diaoyu Islands" during a demonstration in Hong Kong Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010.

photo: AP / Kin Cheung

China demands apology from Japan after boat captain arrives home
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Beijing - China demanded an apology and compensation on Saturday after Japan returned a fishing boat captain who was arrested more than two weeks ago in disputed waters. 'Such an act seriously infringed...