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US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers (AP)

October 6th, 2010

Drivers of Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicles are parked at Pakistani border town of Torkham wait on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The U.S. apologized Wednesday for a recent helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for…

Japan foreign minister apologizes to US POWs (AP)

September 14th, 2010

Lester Tenney, center, a former U.S. prisoner of war during World War II speaks to Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, unseen, at Okada's office in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 13, 2010, after Okada apologized to the group of former prisons who were invited by the Japanese government as part of the Japanese-American POW friendship program.  (AP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno, Pool)AP - Japan’s foreign minister apologized for the suffering of a group of former World War II prisoners of war visiting from the United States and said they were treated…

American apologizes for aiding rebels in Peru (AP)

August 16th, 2010

U.S. activist Lori Berenson attends her hearing at court in Lima, Peru, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. Berenson, from New York, addressed a criminal appeals court as prosecutors called for her parole to be revoked and for her to be sent back to prison to finish her 20-year sentence for aiding the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - American Lori Berenson apologized Monday for aiding leftist rebels and asked a Peruvian court to let her remain free on parole after serving 15 years of her 20-year…

Japan PM shuns shrine, apologizes at WWII ceremony (AP)

August 15th, 2010

Visitors in Japanese Imperial army and navy uniforms enter Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals, during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Tokyo, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)AP - Japan’s new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments’ tradition and instead apologizing…

UK apologizes for Bloody Sunday killings (AP)

June 15th, 2010

** CORRECTS TO GRAND NIECE ** Megan Bradley, three, grand niece of Jim Wray, gathers with other relatives of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday  in Londonderry, Northern Ireland Tuesday June 15, 2010 ahead of Tuesday's release of the long-awaited Saville report. The British government publishes findings of investigation into Bloody Sunday, the 1972 killing of 13 Catholic demonstrators by British troops. The investigation began in 1998 and became the most expensive in British legal history as it gathered evidence from 2,500 witnesses, including troops who opened fire that day.    (AP Photo/Paul Faith/PA Wire) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT  **AP - The British soldiers who killed 13 Catholic demonstrators in Northern Ireland during “Bloody Sunday” nearly four decades ago committed “unjustified and unjustifiable” killings of unarmed and innocent victims…

Duchess of York apologizes over newspaper sting (Reuters)

May 24th, 2010

Britain's Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson poses for photographers at her arrival for the premiere of Reuters - Britain’s Duchess of York, caught on camera apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband, UK trade envoy Prince Andrew, said Sunday she was sorry for her “serious…

UK apologizes to Vatican over Pope visit jokes (AP)

April 25th, 2010

Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, foreground, greets Pope Benedict XVI, center, during a special audience for bishops following a meeting on the new media, in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Saturday, April 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Britain’s Foreign Office issued a hasty apology Sunday to Pope Benedict XVI after publication of an internal memo in which officials joked he could open an abortion clinic,…

Irish bishop resigns, apologizes to abuse victims (AP)

March 24th, 2010

AP - Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation Wednesday of Bishop John Magee, a former papal aide who stands accused of endangering children by failing to follow the Irish church’s…

Israel apologizes for embarrassing Biden (AP)

March 10th, 2010

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday. Biden was to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in part to ease their doubts about the latest U.S. peace efforts. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had…