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Karzai calls for more control of funds, security (AP)

An Afghan policeman keeps watch at a checkpoint in Kabul on July 19, 2010. Security is tight in the Afghan capital as a key binternational/b conference unfolds there.(AFP/Shah Marai)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is urging international partners to help his country move toward responsibility for its own security and for government programs as an international conference opens…

Gates, Clinton to visit DMZ dividing 2 Koreas (AP)

This photo provided by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arriving at Seoul Air Base, South Korea, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, Cherie Cullen)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Tuesday that he and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will make an unprecedented trip together to the Demilitarized Zone dividing the…

Man caught smuggling 18 monkeys at Mexico airport (AP)

AP - A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City’s international airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle…

Asia travel surge boosts airplane-makers’ fortunes (AFP)

Passengers are seen at Beijing International airport in the Chinese capital city. Aircraft manufacturers are awaiting more orders at the Farnborough Airshow, a day after it took off with rivals Boeing and Airbus netting 23 billion dollars in new contracts.(AFP/File)AFP - Aircraft manufacturers awaited more orders Tuesday at the Farnborough Airshow, a day after it took off with rivals Boeing and Airbus netting 23 billion dollars in new contracts.


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US court grants bail to Conrad Black (AFP)

Disgraced media mogul Conrad Black, pictured in 2007, was granted bail by a US court as he appeals a six-and-a-half year jail term imposed in 2007 after he was convicted of defrauding shareholders.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)AFP - Disgraced media mogul Conrad Black was granted bail by a US court as he appeals a six-and-a-half year jail term imposed after being convicted of defrauding shareholders.


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