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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…