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Suicide attack kills 40 at Afghan wedding party (AP)

June 10th, 2010

An unidentified father comforts his injured son at a hospital following a blast at wedding party in Kandahar city, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 10, 2010. A suicide attack ripped through a wedding party in full swing in the Taliban's heartland in southern Afghanistan late Wednesday, killing 40 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party in full swing in the Taliban’s heartland in southern Afghanistan, killing 40 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Thursday.


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Militants attack NATO convoy in Pakistan; 7 killed (AP)

June 9th, 2010

A firefighter sprays water on a burning truck torched by suspected militants in an attack, early Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Sangjani near Islamabad, Pakistan. Suspected militants attacked trucks carrying military vehicles and goods for foreign forces in Afghanistan close to the Pakistani capital, killing six people and wounding seven others, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Militants attacked dozens of trucks ferrying vehicles for Western troops in Afghanistan early Wednesday near the Pakistani capital, a bold assault that killed seven people and illustrated the…

Suicide bombers attack Afghan police compound (AP)

June 7th, 2010

Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul, left, holds hands with Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, center, and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, right, at the end of their trilateral meeting at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, June 7, 2010.(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta, Pool)AP - At least three suicide bombers attacked a police training center Monday in southern Afghanistan’s largest city, but the assailants were killed before they could inflict any other casualties,…

Afghan interior, intel chiefs replaced over attack (AP)

June 6th, 2010

National Directorate of Security chief Amrullah Saleh speaks to the media after submitting his resignation in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 6, 2010. The Afghan president's office says Hamid Karzai has accepted the resignations of his interior minister and intelligence chief over a militant attack on last week's national peace conference. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)AP - Afghanistan’s intelligence chief and interior minister resigned Sunday to take responsibility for allowing militants to elude a massive security operation and launch an attack on last week’s national…

US commander: No sign of another NKorean attack (AP)

June 4th, 2010

AP - The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific says there is no sign now that North Korea is planning another strike or provocation against South Korea.

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Militants attack as Afghan peace conference starts (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Afghan policemen stand guard at the check point of the Peace Jirga tent at Kabul Polytechnic University, where a three-day conference is to begin Wednesday, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. President Hamid Karzai is rolling out his program to lure Taliban and other insurgent fighters off the battlefield, addressing the conference starting Wednesday aimed at building a national consensus on how to end the nearly nine-year war. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Security forces battled insurgents including at least one suicide bomber outside a national peace conference just as President Hamid Karzai opened the three-day meeting Wednesday in the Afghan…

Taliban claim attack on Afghan peace conference (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Afghan policemen stand guard at the check point of the Peace Jirga tent at Kabul Polytechnic University, where a three-day conference is to begin Wednesday, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. President Hamid Karzai is rolling out his program to lure Taliban and other insurgent fighters off the battlefield, addressing the conference starting Wednesday aimed at building a national consensus on how to end the nearly nine-year war. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a suicide attack launched against a national peace conference in the Afghan capital.


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Gunmen attack hospital in Pakistan, kill 8 people (AP)

May 31st, 2010

Pakistani policemen take cover outside one of two mosques stormed by gunmen in Lahore on May 28. Gunmen opened fire at a Pakistan hospital where victims of an attack on Ahmadi mosques were being treated late Monday, sparking a shootout in which 12 people were killed, a doctor said.(AFP/File/Arif Ali)AP - A Pakistani government official says two gunmen have attacked a hospital in eastern Pakistan, killing at least eight people.


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Reports: Israeli ships attack aid flotilla, 2 dead (AP)

May 31st, 2010

Palestinian flags wave in Gaza port, foreground, and Palestinians ride a boat in Gaza waters, a day before a flotilla of aid ships is expected to try and sail into the blockaded territory, in Gaza city, Sunday, May 30, 2010. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists on seven ships prepared to set sail for the Gaza Strip on Sunday from binternational/b waters close to Cyprus, edging closer to an expected naval showdown as Israeli officials warned they would halt the flotilla from reaching the blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - Israeli warships attacked at least one of the six ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists and aid for blockaded Gaza, killing at least two and wounding an unknown number of…

China holds back on blaming NKorea in ship attack (AP)

May 30th, 2010

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, left, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, center, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, pose with elementary school students of their countries as they arrive to bury a time capsule and to plant a tree in Seogwipo on Jeju island, South Korea, Sunday, May 30, 2010. The three leaders met Sunday on the last day of a summit focusing on how to respond to the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on North Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)AP - China held back from joining the chorus of nations condemning North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean warship, making quick international sanctions unlikely but perhaps buying time…