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Satellite images support North Korea reactor claim (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

North Korean soldiers salute from atop tanks during a military parade to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, October 10, 2010. REUTERS/Petar KujundzicReuters - Satellite images of activity at North Korea’s main nuclear complex support Pyongyang’s claims it is constructing an experimental light water reactor in defiance of global pressure to denuclearize,…

Taliban claim to capture US sailor, kill another (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The Taliban claimed Sunday that they killed a U.S. sailor and kidnapped another as NATO forces ramped up a massive search for the servicemen, who went missing two…

Taliban claim capture of US sailor, killing of 2nd (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners,…

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie settle privacy claim (AP)

July 22nd, 2010

Cast member Angelina Jolie, right and Brad Pitt arrive at the premiere of 'Salt' in Los Angeles, on Monday, July 19, 2010.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted undisclosed damages Thursday in London’s High Court to settle a privacy claim against a British tabloid that had reported they were planning…

Taliban claim blast that freed 11 from Afghan jail (AP)

July 18th, 2010

An aerial view from a US helicopter in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A blast from smuggled-in explosives at a prison in western Afghanistan killed a guard and allowed 11 inmates to escape early Sunday, officials said. One prisoner was shot…

Flash floods claim seven lives in southern France (AFP)

June 16th, 2010

People walk through floodwaters in the French city of Draguignan. Heavy rains have triggered flash floods in the mountains above France's southern Cote d'Azur region, killing seven people, while at least another eight were missing, officials have said.(AFP/Christian Daures)AFP - Heavy rains triggered flash floods in the mountains above France’s southern Cote d’Azur region on Tuesday, killing seven people, while at least another eight were missing, a local…

Mexico officials backtrack on explosives claim (AP)

June 10th, 2010

An alleged regional leader of the Zetas drug gang, Hector Raul Luna Luna, is presented to the press by soldiers in Mexico City, Thursday, June 10, 2010.  The military announced Wednesday the capture of Luna, Zetas' purported regional leader for the northern city of Monterrey. The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that Luna was responsible for assaults on Mexican soldiers and a 2008 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, in which a grenade was thrown at the building but failed to explode. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - Mexican officials on Thursday rejected claims that the nation’s navy had seized a cache of powerful explosives in a boarding house in the nation’s capital.


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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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Taiwan-China flight diverted after explosive claim (AP)

May 2nd, 2010

AP - A flight from the Taiwanese capital to the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai was diverted to a nearby Chinese airport Saturday after a passenger told cabin crew his…

Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO-Afghan base (AP)

March 10th, 2010

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, second left, tours through the town of Now Zad, Afghanistan, on Tuesday March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim WATSON, Pool)AP - The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members.


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