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NATO accepts blame for killing 6 Afghan civilians (AP)

July 9th, 2010

Afghan children watch as a  United States soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, walks past during a patrol in the village of Pir-e-Paymal in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City, Wednesday, July 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - NATO took the blame on Friday for accidentally killing six civilians and wounding several others in eastern Afghanistan — just a day after five Afghan soldiers died in…

Pope accepts resignation of German bishop (AP)

May 8th, 2010

FILE - In this March 2, 2009 file picture Walter Mixa, Catholic Bishop of Augsburg,  waits for the beginning  of the Spring Assembly of the German Bishop's Conference in Hamburg, northern Germany. The  leading bishop from Pope Benedict's XVI's German homeland who is being investigated by prosecutors for alleged sex abuse of his post Saturday May 8, 2010, the latest casualty of the pontiff's housecleaning of prelates stained by accusations of molesting minors. Benedict formally accepted the resignation offer made April 21 by Bishop Walter Mixa, an outspoken conservative voice in the German church and a military chaplain for Germany, as well as head of the Augsburg diocese.  Mixa is also under probe for alleged financial misconduct at a children's home under his direction. He had admitted slapping children decades ago when he was a priest, but his lawyer has denied press reports prosecutors are investigating him on a sexual abuse complaint.  (AP Photo/Focke Strangmann,File)AP - A leading German bishop who has acknowledged slapping children and is being investigated for sexual abuse of minors and financial misconduct lost his job Saturday as Pope Benedict…

King accepts resignation of Belgian government (AP)

April 26th, 2010

Belgium's King Albert II (L) and his chief of Office Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou (R) leave the Laeken Royal Palace in Brussels April 23, 2010. Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme has gone to King Albert to tender his government's resignation, a minister said after an emergency cabinet meeting on Thursday, after no agreement was reached on the electoral boundaries Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV) -- a complex and highly divisive issue that French and Dutch speakers have argued about for decades.   REUTERS/Sebastien Pirlet   (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS ROYALS)AP - Belgium King Albert II accepted the government’s resignation Monday after negotiations failed to resolve a long-simmering dispute between Dutch- and French-speaking politicians over a bilingual voting district in…