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APEC seeks to build vast free trade area (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (3rd L) and other foreign and trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries pose for a family photo in Yokohama, south of Tokyo November 10, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - * Draft says leaders to press for balanced growth


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German militants training in Pakistani border area (AP)

October 7th, 2010

AP - The video at first seems like many others filmed in Pakistan’s tribal areas: The bearded militant sits cross-legged on the floor, an AK-47 propped against the wall behind…

Spanish area OKs flaming bull festivals (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

AP - Lawmakers who banned bullfighting in Spain’s Catalonia region this summer voted Wednesday to endorse other traditions that have been criticized as cruel to bulls, such as attaching burning…

Afghan govt: Blast hits Kabul residential area (AP)

August 10th, 2010

Relatives and friends carry coffin of Jawed, 27, one of the two Afghans killed by gunmen in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, from a morgue in a military hospital in Kabul. The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of six Americans citizens who were among eight foreigners gunned down in northeastern Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban, a US official said Monday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AP - An explosion hit a residential area of Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, the government said.


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Twin suicide bombs kill 62 in Pakistan tribal area (AP)

July 9th, 2010

A elderly man injured by a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's Mohmand ethnic Pashtun tribal region is assisted after being brought to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar on July 9, 2010. REUTERS/Fayaz AzizAP - A pair of suicide bombings killed 62 people Friday outside a government office in a region along the Afghan border where the Pakistani army and U.S. missiles have…

Afghan gov’t: Blast rocks Kabul’s diplomatic area (AP)

June 26th, 2010

Soldiers from A Company of the 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles meet with Afghan locals during a patrol near Nahr e Saraj village, in Helmand. A huge blast was heard in the Afghan capital Saturday as US military chief, Admiral Mike Mullen, arrived for meetings to explain the sacking of the US commander of foreign forces in the country, witnesses told AFP.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - An explosion hit the Afghan capital Saturday morning in an area that is home to foreign embassies and government offices.


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Any good international High Schools or Junior College in los angeles/ pasadena area?

May 20th, 2010

I’m planning to move from Indonesia to live in the states. I’m 15 going on 16, does anyone know any good international schools or junior colleges in that area? I live…

Militants kidnap about 60 in Pakistan tribal area (AP)

May 15th, 2010

Pakistani man sells food at a vegetable market on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, May 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)AP - Militants armed with assault rifles kidnapped about 60 people in a troubled tribal region in northwest Pakistan on Saturday after ambushing their vehicles, police said.


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Missile barrage kills 14 in Pakistan tribal area (AP)

May 11th, 2010

A soldier of Pakistani paramilitary force searches an Afghan man at a post of Pakistan-Afghanistan border of Chaman, Pakistan, Monday, May 10, 2010. Pakistani authorities beefed up security at Afghan borders as Pakistani army fight against Taliban and militants in Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border, official said. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)AP - Up to 18 American missiles slammed into a Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan close to the Afghan border Tuesday, killing 14 alleged insurgents in the third such strike since…

China says monks advised to leave quake area (AP)

April 23rd, 2010

Residents gather to commemorate the more than 2,000 victims killed by the recent Qinghai quake,  at a square in Xining in China's Qinghai province Wednesday April 21, 2010.  China ordered all flags to be flown at half-staff and called a halt to all entertainment, including online games and sports events, for the national day of mourning. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Chinese authorities said Friday that Buddhist monks had been advised to leave an earthquake zone in a Tibetan region because specialized personnel were needed for reconstruction work, rejecting…