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Time.com - Talk of transferring responsibility for defending Afghanistan to local forces by 2014 still looks a tad optimistic, while stakeholders struggle to agree on an endgame

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AP - World leaders lack the political will to ensure that everyone infected with HIV and AIDS gets treatment, the head of a meeting dedicated to the disease said Sunday.

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AP - A suicide bomber slipped through the Afghan capital’s tight security ring Sunday, killing three civilians near a busy market two days before an international conference hosting representatives from about…

AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai got a boost Friday from a national conference of tribal, religious and civic leaders for his plans to approach the Taliban to talk peace.…

AP - An Afghan national peace conference on Friday concluded with a call for the government to take formal steps toward negotiating with insurgents.

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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…

AP - The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a suicide attack launched against a national peace conference in the Afghan capital.

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AP - After 15 years, Arab nations finally won agreement from the United States and the other nuclear powers to take the first step toward banning nuclear weapons from the…

AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seized center stage at the opening of a monthlong debate at the United Nations on how to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. But…

AP - Israel’s Prime Minister called off his trip to Washington next week to attend a conference on the spread of nuclear weapons, officials in his office said, fearing Israel…