Family members of Myanmar prisoners sit behind barricades and wait in front of Myanmar's notorious Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar as they hope their relatives will be freed Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win
Myanmar frees many prominent political prisoners
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YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar freed many of its most prominent political prisoners Friday in a long-awaited step toward national reconciliation that also has been a key condition set by Western nations for easing sanctions against the country. The releases of several political activists and ethnic minority leaders, confirmed by their relatives, were...
Members of a U.S. Marine Scout-Sniper team joke around after an exchange of fire with Taliban militants hiding in the tree-line close to their base, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011.
photo: AP / Brennan Linsley
US identifies unit in Marine abuse video
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Top US officials strongly condemned a video that appears to show Marines urinating on dead insurgents in Afghanistan, while the Pentagon said it had identified the unit involved. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the behavior in the video was "utterly deplorable," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of her "total dismay," and both...
File - Somalia Transitional Government soldiers prepare to take up positions near Mogadishu, Somalia stadium Sunday, Aug, 7, 2011, as they carry one of their soldiers body after a brief fight with Al Shabaab fighters.
photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh
Is Somalia's al-Shabab on the back foot?
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Somalia's militant al-Shabab insurgent group stares a possible military collapse in the face as a coalition of African forces, fighting on multiple...
In this Jan. 5, 2012 file photo, United States Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives at a court room at Camp Pendleton with lead defense attorney Neal Puckett in Camp Pendeton, Calif.
photo: AP / Lenny Ignelzi
US troops 'told to lie' about Iraqi killings
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A US soldier has told a military jury in California how his commander killed five Iraqi civilians in the western al-Anbar province in 2005 and then asked him to lie about it. At a trial stemming from one of the Iraq war's most controversial episodes, Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz testified on Wednesday, the third day of Staff Sergeant Frank...
File - U. S. Marines and sailors of Border Advisory Team 2 patrol alongside Afghan Border Police during Operation Eagle Hunt, west of Tahgaz, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Nov. 9, 2011.
photo: USMC / Cpl. Daniel Wulz
Taliban back peace talks but warn no surrender
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Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents warned Thursday that their support of peace talks did not mean they had given up fighting or accepted the constitution of the "stooge" government in Kabul. The comments came as the United States announced that it would send a senior official to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week to see...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, speaks as his Japanese counterpart Jun Azumi listens during a joint press conference in Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012.
photo: AP / Koji Sasahara
Japan to reduce oil imports from Iran
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Tokyo: Japan will start to reduce oil imports from Iran in support of US sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Thursday after meeting with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Iran's "nuclear development problem can't be ignored by the world, so from that perspective we understand the US actions”,...
 US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to Alpha/Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, enter the house of an Afghan villager during a search for illegal weapons in the Daychopan District of Zabol Province, Afghanistan, during Op
photo: US Army file/SSgt Joseph Collins Jr
US Marine Corps probes 'Taliban desecration' video
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The US military has said it is investigating a video that appears to show a group of Marines urinating on dead Taliban...
In this photo provided by the semi-official Fars News Agency, people gather around a car as it is removed by a mobile crane in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012.
photo: AP / Fars News Agency, Meghdad Madadi
Bomb kills Iran nuclear scientist as crisis mounts
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian nuclear scientist was blown up in his car by a motorbike hitman, prompting Tehran to blame Israeli and U.S. agents but insist the killing would not derail a nuclear program that has raised fears of war and threatened world oil supplies. The fifth daylight attack on technical experts in two years, the magnetic bomb...
Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani talks to the media during a press conference at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, May 19, 2008. Pakistan's premier has pledged to fight terrorism after a meeting with President Bush _ the highest-level contact between the two governments since Pakistan's new leaders offered peace talks to Islamist insurgents. The two leaders met Sunday in Egypt at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, a gathering of political and business leaders.
photo: AP / Adel Hana
Pakistan on edge as army threatens government
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In the latest twist in a dispute that has simmered for months, the army yesterday issued a statement that said recent comments made by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had "very serious ramifications with potentially grievous consequences for the country". The army's stern warning came after an increasingly bold Mr Gilani gave an...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian pro-government protesters carry national flags and banners as they call for a reform program and in support of the national unity in the city of Sanamein, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
photo: AP / SANA
French journalist killed in Syria on official trip
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BEIRUT A French TV cameraman became the first Western journalist killed in the 10-month-old Syrian uprising Wednesday, dying in a barrage of grenades during a government-sponsored trip to the restive city of Homs, officials and a witness said. The violence came just hours after President Bashar Assad made a surprise appearance at a rally in the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A video appearing to show U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead...
Wherever they're deployed, they're menacing and feared for good reason. Known historically by...
According to the newspaper Le Monde, some of the most senior police officers in France have...
 
Iranian parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, during a press conference, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 29, 2010.
Iran has said it has agreed to talks with six world powers on its controversial nuclear programme, days after the UN confirmed Tehran was producing 20% enriched uranium. Visiting Turkey, parliament speaker Ali Larijani said he had accepted Ankara's...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Rachel Winch, 26, of Washington, holds a sign during a demonstration outside FBI headquarters in Washington, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, in support of U.S. Army Pfc Bradley Manning, the alleged leaker of documents to WikiLeaks who is currently jailed.
A US military tribunal has recommended a court martial for Army Private Bradley Manning for allegedly funneling thousands of classified US documents to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. "The investigating officer [Lieutenant Colonel Paul Almanza]...
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin
New Afghanistan assessment reflects split U.S. views
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and NATO soldiers have weakened the Taliban but not enough to force the militants to abandon their fight against foreign troops, according to a new intelligence assessment that highlights an abiding division between the...
photo: DOD / Public Domain
UN urges group of 77 nations to champion development agenda
Tehran, Jan 12, IRNAThe United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and President of the General Assembly Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser have urged the Group 77 nations and China to ensure that due measures would be adopted during an upcoming UN conference on...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
File - Detainees captured during the war in Afghanistan  await the evening call to prayer at Camp X-ray, Guantanamo Detention Centre.
British spies will be cleared in a number of cases of alleged complicity in the torture of detainees abroad, the BBC understands. Scotland Yard and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) are to issue a joint...
photo: US Coastguard / PA2 Megan Casey
Study says every star has planets
Every star twinkling in the night sky plays host to at least one planet, a new study suggests. That implies there are some 10 billion Earth-sized planets in our galaxy. Using a technique called gravitational microlensing, an international team found...
photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech
 Republican presidential hopeful former Mass Gov. Mitt Romney, listens to a reporter´s question during a news conference at the Ohio State University Airport in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)   (js1)
STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press= CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, improving on his first-place finish in last week's Iowa caucuses and firmly establishing himself as the man to beat for...
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File - U. S. Marines and sailors of Border Advisory Team 2 patrol alongside Afghan Border Police during Operation Eagle Hunt, west of Tahgaz, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Nov. 9, 2011. Students watch their classmate have her teeth cleaned. Military contingents from the United Nations Mission in Haiti joined forces to hold a  CIMIC day for local residents and students in Haiti's capital Port au Prince's Bel Air neighbourhood. Doctors, dentists and engineers were in attendance at an all girls school, providing medical and dental attention and cleaning the surrounding streets of garbage and debris. Photo Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH Customers are seen in an Apple store in Carugate, near Milan, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO on Wednesday, saying he could no longer handle the job and would continue to play a leadership role as chairman of the board. Since Steve Jobs' return to Apple Inc. in 1997 as CEO, the company has been on an unparalleled upswing, highlighted by the immense popularity of the iPad and iPhone. Now, with Jobs no longer leading, Apple will have to prove it can keep its momentum. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) West Indies cricket player Richi Rechards Polio Drop to child at The Eden Gardens in Kolkata on November 12, 2011. Indian is leading the 3 match Test series by 1-0 and will play the West Indies in the second Test match starting in Kolkata from November 14 in Eastern India City
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