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Breaking News Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Afghans shout anti-US slogans during a demonstration in Mehterlam, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Afghan police on Thursday fired shots in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters who tried to break into an American military base in the country's east to vent their anger over this week's Quran burnings incident. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Analysis - Can United States defuse Koran burning uproar?
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a third day of bloody protests over the burning of the Koran, there is a sense that America is lurching from one image crisis to the next in Afghanistan, with no clear p... (photo: AP / Rahmat Gul)
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President Barack Obama makes a statement in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, July 22, 2011 on the break down of debt ceiling talks.
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Obama apologizes for Quran burning in Afghanistan
| KABUL, Afghanistan — President Barack Obama apologized Thursday for the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book at a U.S. military base this week, as violent protests raging nationwide led a man... (photo: AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Barack Obama in Berlin Obama apologizes for Qur'an burning in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -  | President Barack Obama apologized on Thursday for the burning of copies of the Qur'an on a U.S. base in Afghanistan as the White House sought to quell spiraling furor among A... (photo: Creative Commons / Matthias Winkelmann) Toronto Sun
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President Barack Obama delivers the 2011 State of the Union Address Obama apologizes for Quran burning in Afghanistan
| PATRICK QUINN | Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — President Barack Obama apologized Thursday for the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book at a U.S. military base this week, as viole... (photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza) The Guardian
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President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations, Thursday, July, 7, 2011, in the briefing room at the White House in Washington. Obama sorry for Koran burning
US President Barack Obama sent Afghan President Hamid Karzai a letter of apology over the burning of copies of the Koran overseen by a US officer at a US military base, K... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Independent online
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U.S. soldiers stand guard near the site where Afghans, unseen, receive the food stuff donations provided by U.S. solders in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Many Afghans were still sleeping when President Barack Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to the war. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said NATO and U.S. forces would hand over responsibility for securing the country to the Afghan security forces "as rapidly as conditions allow." Obama said if conditions are right, U.S. troops could begin leaving Afghanistan in 18 months. Afghan soldier kills two NATO troops
Kabul - An Afghan soldier joined protests on Thursday against the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base and shot dead two foreign troops, Western military sources... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq) Independent online
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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, left, looks at NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during the signing of a Declaration between NATO and the Afghan Government on Enduring Partnership at a NATO summit in Lisbon on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010. Troops killed by Afghan soldier were Americans-official
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two NATO troops killed by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform were Americans, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday, speaking on conditio... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo) Daily Press
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People inspect the damage inside al-Hijaz Mosque in the southern port city of Um Qasr, 600 kilometers. (372 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Iraqi investigators said a Shiite mosque that was partially destroyed in an overnight fire was likely an act of sabotage. Almost all the furniture in the mosque, including copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, were burned. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) Obama apologizes to Afghanistan for Quran burning
February 23, 2012 -- Updated 1413 GMT (2213 HKT) Afghan demonstrators show copies of Koran books allegedly set alight by US soldiers | Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Preside... (photo: AP / Nabil al-Jurani) CNN
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, police officers stand around an Israeli diplomat's car that was damaged in an explosion in New Delhi, India. Iran says claims that it is behind global attacks part of Israeli 'war game'
| Iran submitted a letter of protest to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, charging Israel of attacking its nuclear scientists and coloring recent accusatio... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi) Ha'aretz
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Sen. Richard Madaleno, D-Montgomery, right hugs Rep. Maggie McIntosh, D-Baltimore City, center, and Rep. Mary Washington, D-Baltimore City, all openly gay members of the Maryland General Assembly, in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, after the Senate approved a gay marriage bill. Gay marriage is all but legalized in Maryland with the legislature giving its final OK to the law that is awaiting the expected signature of the governor. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Sen. Richard Madaleno, D-Montgomery, right hugs Rep. Maggie McIntosh, D-Baltimore City, center, and Rep. Mary Washington, D-Baltimore City, all openly gay members of the Maryland General Assembly, in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, after the Senate approved a gay marriage bill. Gay marriage is all but legalized in Maryland with the legislature giving its final OK to the law that is awaiting the expected signature of the governor. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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