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The Liverpool Football Club's emblem is seen on a gate at their Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England

photo: AP / Dave Thompson

Boston Red Sox owner to buy Liverpool Football Club
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London, England (CNN) -- Liverpool Football Club announced Wednesday that its board has agreed to sell the team to New England Sports Ventures, the company that owns baseball's Boston Red Sox. The sale is conditional on approval from the Premier League, to which Liverpool belongs;...

A man killed in a blast is surrounded by his relatives in a hospital in Kandahar city, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010.

photo: AP / Allauddin Khan

9 Killed, 26 Wounded In 2nd Day Of Kandahar Blasts
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Two explosions killed nine people and wounded two dozen others in Kandahar, the second day of deadly blasts in the southern Afghan city where Taliban insurgents are fighting back against U.S. and Afghan forces pushing into areas long held by insurgents. A car bomb and a second, smaller blast killed nine people Tuesday,...

A villager checks his yard flooded by toxic mud in the Kolontar, Hungary, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010.

photo: AP / Bela Szandelszky

Hungary: toxic sludge will take one year to clean up
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The wave of toxic sludge that has poured into seven villages in Hungary could take up to 12 months and tens of millions of dollars to clean up, officials have warned. A Hungarian soldier wearing a chemical protection suit walks through a street flooded by toxic in the town of Devecser Photo: AP Zoltan Illes, the environment minister, told the BBC...

U.S. Army Sgt. Zachary Simmons, of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, provides security during an area reconnaissance mission near Highway 1 in the Zabul province of Afghanistan on Sept. 30, 2010.

photo: US Army / Spc. Joshua Grenier

Afghan leaders, Taliban reportedly in high-level talks to end war
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WASHINGTON - Taliban representatives and the government of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan have begun secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war, according to Afghan and Arab sources. The talks follow inconclusive meetings, hosted by Saudi Arabia, that ended more than a year ago. While emphasizing the...

A girl stands on a boat in front of her flooded home in central Ha Tinh province Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010.

photo: AP / VNA, Cong Tuong

Massive floods kill 26 in Vietnam; 9 missing
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HANOI, Vietnam—Helicopters dropped food aid Wednesday to people in villages cut off by high water as the death toll from flooding this week in central Vietnam rose to 26, with nine people missing, disaster officials said....

Pakistanis search for items beside oil tankers that were attacked by suspected militants at a terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010.

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

More Nato trucks burnt in Pakistan
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Armed men in Pakistan have burned up to eight tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, killing a lorry driver, according to Pakistani police. Shah Nawaz Khan, a police official, said on Wednesday that the attack, the latest on supply convoys since Pakistan closed a key border crossing to Nato forces last week, occurred...

A soldier patrols at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. Japan issued a travel alert for Europe on Monday, joining the United States and Britain in warning of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida or other groups, but tourists appeared to be taking the mounting warnings in their stride.

photo: AP / Remy de la Mauviniere

France arrests 12 in counter-terrorism raids
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PARIS: Police in southern France arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks on Tuesday, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan, officials said. The roundups were part of two entirely different counterterrorism cases under investigation by French judges, and fell on the same day...

A Hungarian woman reacts while seeing her home flooded by toxic mud in the town of Devecser, Hungary, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010.

photo: AP / ela Szandelszky

Hungary toxic mud spill kills four
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BUDAPEST (AFP) – Hungary declared a state of emergency after a toxic mud spill swamped seven villages killing four people and injuring 120 in what officials said was the country's worst-ever chemical accident. Eight injured were in a serious condition and six people were missing after the walls of a reservoir of residue at an aluminium...

A Congolese woman and children displaced by the latest fighting seek refuge near the UN base in the village of Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo, Wednesday Nov. 5, 2008.

photo: AP / Jerome Delay

Congo rebel commander arrested in mass rapes
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GOMA, Congo - A leader of a Congolese rebel group suspected of commanding the rape of at least 303 civilians two months ago has been taken into custody, a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo said. The chief of staff of the Mai Mai Cheka rebel group, Lt. Col. Sadoke Kokunda Mayele, was arrested by...

An MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft, armed with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan.

photo: USAF file / Lt Col Leslie Pratt

Drone attacks 'linked' to suspected Europe terror plot
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Officials have linked a recent increase in US drone...