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File - A North Korean soldier stands watch on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone as U.S. Sailors assigned to the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group tour the DMZ in Panmunjom, South Korea, July 17, 2008.

photo: US Navy / Senior Chief MCS Spike Call

N Korea calls for closer US ties
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North Korea has called for an end to hostile ties with the US and reaffirmed that it wants a nuclear free peninsula. The call was made in a New Year joint editorial on Friday by several North Korean newspapers carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula...

FILE - In this file photo taken Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, a U.S. special operations member pays his final respects for a comrade killed in Afghanistan's Farah province.

photo: AP / Maya Alleruzzo

CIA caught in dirty and secretive war against al-Qaeda on Afghan border
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The deaths of seven CIA agents in Khost province have brought into the limelight the secretive and dirty war being fought by America's intelligence agencies - and the Taleban and al-Qaeda - in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Forward Operating Base Chapman, and others like it along the border, are the forward edge of American...

Policemen outside the Sello shopping center in Espoo, Finland on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009.

photo: AP / Lehtikuva/Martti Kainulainen

Gunman kills five then himself in Finland
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Kosovan-born gunman shot dead four people in a Finnish shopping mall on Thursday and killed his ex-girlfriend in an apartment before killing himself in Finland's third shooting spree in as many years. Police investigators are seen inside a shopping mall after a shooting in Espoo December 31, 2009. (REUTERS/Jussi...

File - U.S. Army Soldiers and Navy Sailors from the Khowst Provincial Reconstruction Team ready their humvees for a mission at Forward Operating Base Chapman, Afghanistan, Sept. 20, 2007.

photo: US Army / Sgt. Matthew Clifton

CIA Officers Believed Killed in Afghan Attack, Taliban Claim Responsibility
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KABUL — The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for a homicide bombing at a base in eastern Afghanistan that killed eight American civilians and one Afghan, the worst loss of life for the U.S. in the country since October. A U.S. congressional official said CIA employees are believed to be among the victims. Four Canadian...

In this April 15, 2008 file photo a Northwest plane is seen parked as travelers wait for their flight at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Detroit.

photo: AP / Kiichiro Sato, file

US aware Abdulmutallab prepared for terror attack
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The US was aware that “a Nigerian” in Yemen was being prepared for a terrorist attack - weeks before an attempted bombing on a US plane. ABC News and the New York Times say there was intelligence to this effect, but its source is unclear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab flew from Lagos to Amsterdam before changing planes for a flight to Detroit on which...

An Iraqi policeman inspects the site of a bombing in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009.

photo: AP

Iraqi police among dead after suicide blasts kill 23
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SUICIDE BOMBINGS in Ramadi's fortified Green Zone have killed 23 people and wounded more than 100. One of those critically injured was the governor of Anbar, Iraq's largest province. Most of the dead and wounded were police officers. The first bomber blew up his vehicle yesterday at a checkpoint near the provincial administration's office...

This video file image broadcast on Feb. 26, 2008 by Arab satellite news network purportedly shows Peter Moore who was taken hostage in May 2007 by militants disguised as Iraqi policemen.

photo: AP / Al Arabiya, Via AP Television News, File

Briton Peter Moore freed in Iraq after 946-day hostage ordeal
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The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen. Mr Moore, an IT consultant, was freed by the League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq (AAH) - an extremist Shia group allied to Iran - after 31 months and spent his...

Chanting slogan, a female Iranian demonstrator holds a poster of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a pro-government rally at the Enqelab (Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009.

photo: AP / Vahid Salemi

Hundreds of thousands at pro-government rallies in Iran
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of government supporters rallied across Iran on Wednesday, swearing allegiance to the clerical establishment and accusing opposition leaders of causing unrest in the Islamic state. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in...

File - An aid convoy arrives in the Gaza Strip after crossing the border between Egypt and southern Gaza, on March 9, 2009 in the border town of Rafah.

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

We Must Learn to Stress Borderless Acts of Goodness
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah urged Muslims to be vigilant against "borderless Israeli greed and brutality," it should have awakened the citizens of the world to an important and often overlooked truth: Borderless militarism and violent aggression must not be allowed to surpass...

A local newspaper shows a photo of Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on its front page Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, in Shanghai, China.

photo: AP

Japan unveils growth plan for next decade
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TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister, faced with fading support as the country struggles to maintain its fledgling economic recovery, Wednesday outlined a new set of measures to spur growth over the next decade. The plan aims for the country's economy to expand at an average of 2 percent over the next 10 years, with gross domestic product to grow to...