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Pakistan’s largest city reels after 51 killed (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Pakistani boy prays before attending a daily class to learn how to read verses of the Quran, at a mosque in a poor neighborhood of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - Pakistan’s largest city reeled Wednesday after gunmen opened fire in a commercial market, killing 11 people in the latest spasm of violence to underscore the poor state of…

Pakistan’s Karachi city reels after 51 killed (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Pakistani boy prays before attending a daily class to learn how to read verses of the Quran, at a mosque in a poor neighborhood of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - A government official says gunmen opened fire in a commercial market in Pakistan’s largest city, killing 11 people.


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Wenger rules out Rooney raid after Gunners romp (AFP)

October 19th, 2010

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger ruled out entering the race to sign Wayne Rooney after watching the Gunners turn on a dazzling display of goalscoring as they swespt aside Shakhtar Donetsk 5-1, in their Chapions League Group H clash.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger ruled out entering the race to sign Wayne Rooney after watching the Gunners turn on a dazzling display of goalscoring.


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Thatcher in hospital after flu: govt (AFP)

October 19th, 2010

Former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher was in hospital Wednesday undergoing precautionary tests as she struggles to recover from a bout of flu, her son and the government said.(AFP/POOL/File/Suzanne Plunkett)AFP - Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was in hospital Wednesday undergoing precautionary tests as she struggles to recover from a bout of flu, her son and the government said.


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US soldier in custody after Afghan detainee dies (AP)

October 19th, 2010

Chief of Defense of the Swedish Armed Forces, General Sverker Göranson, place the Medal of Honor on the coffin of  Kenneth Wallin, killed in action on an ISAF mission in Mazar-i Sharif in Afghanistan on Saturday, is carried from the C-130 Hercules plane during a ceremony at Arna military airport north of Stockholm, Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010. Wallin was the 6th Swedish soldier killed in action in Afghanistan.  (AP Photo / Fredrik Sandberg / SCANPIX)   ** SWEDEN OUT **AP - A U.S. soldier was taken into custody after an Afghan detainee was found dead in his cell, apparently from a gunshot wound, NATO said in a statement Tuesday…

After 10 dead in Philippines, storm heads to China (AP)

October 19th, 2010

A resident prepares to cut fallen trees blocking the highway at the onslaught of typhoon Megi (local name 'Juan') Monday Oct.18, 2010 at Cauayan, Isabela province in northeastern Philippines. The strongest cyclone in years to buffet the Philippines knocked out communications and power as residents took shelter Monday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - A super typhoon that killed 10 people and flattened forests in the northern Philippines dumped heavy rains on the capital Tuesday as it headed across the sea to…

In Afghan town, insurgents vanish after battles (AP)

October 18th, 2010

In this Sept. 29, 2010 photograph, passing children watch U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Seth Little, 22, of Bremen, Georgia, as he takes temporary cover in a ditch during a patrol in Marjah, southern Afghanistan.   In this southern Afghan town that coalition forces seized from Taliban fighters eight months ago and are still very much clearing, American troops don't have to go far to find the insurgency. But finding insurgents is another story altogether. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)AP - The Marines have found bloody clothes and spent bullet casings and bombs meant to kill them. They’ve heard bullets flying overhead and seen muzzle flashes in tree lines.


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2 miners found dead after Ecuador tunnel collapse (AP)

October 16th, 2010

A rescue worker looks on outside the Minesadco mine in Portovelo, southern Ecuador, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. A tunnel collapsed in the gold mine, operated by the Ecuadorean company Minesadco, on Friday, trapping four miners 490 feet, some 150 meters, underground. (AP Photo)AP - Search teams found the bodies of two miners Saturday and were still looking for two other men missing since a tunnel collapsed 490 feet (150 meters) underground the…

Ecuador: 4 miners trapped after tunnel collapses (AP)

October 16th, 2010

AP - A tunnel collapsed in a gold mine in southern Ecuador on Friday, trapping four miners 490 feet (150 meters) underground. Authorities said rescue efforts were under way.

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France responds to EU complaints after Gypsy spat (AP)

October 15th, 2010

AP - France is willing to alter some of its laws in response to European Commission complaints that followed the government’s expulsions of Gypsies, or Roma, to countries in Eastern…