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3 UK soldiers could face war crimes trial (AP)

November 9th, 2010

AP - Three British soldiers have been referred to a senior military prosecutor over allegations that they abused Iraqis in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion, the Ministry of Defense…

Iran’s Businesses Worry in Face of Uncertainty (Time.com)

October 27th, 2010

Time.com - Businesses have grown dependent on official energy subsidies and, with the government mum about how it plans to cut them, many industrialists foresee really bad times ahead

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Slain US activist’s parents face Israeli killer (AP)

October 21st, 2010

AP - The parents of an American protester crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip got their first chance Thursday to hear from the man…

Marines in key Afghan town face full-blown insurgency (AP)

October 7th, 2010

In this Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 photo, hospital Corpsman Matthew Heger, foreground, 24, of Seattle, Wa., fires on insurgents during a gunbattle in Marjah, Afghanistan. Heger is serving with the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines' Echo Company, which arrived in Marjah in July. Eight months on, the Taliban are still in Marjah in force, waging a full-blown guerrilla insurgency that rages daily across a bomb-riddled landscape of agricultural fields and irrigation trenches.  (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)AP - The young Marine had a simple question for the farmer with the white beard: Have you seen any Taliban today?


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Remaining US troops still face danger in Iraq (AP)

August 24th, 2010

In this photo taken Saturday, Aug. 20, 2010, trucks transport U.S. military Humvees, MRAPs and other vehicles recently arrived from Iraq at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has fallen below 50,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and ahead of the end-of-the-month deadline mandated by President Barack Obama, the American military said in a statement Tuesday. The number is a watershed — American forces will no longer conduct combat operations in the country but are instead to train Iraqi troops and help with counterterrorism operations, if asked for by the Iraqis. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Lt. Ryan Alexander stands thigh-deep in a dark grove of reeds and palm trees, hunting for rockets. Officially, the U.S. combat role in Iraq is ending this month,…

Australian Voters Face Hung Parliament in Close Election (Time.com)

August 23rd, 2010

Time.com - Australia has its first hung Parliament in 70 years, with neither the conservative Liberal-National Coalition nor the Labor Party getting the requisite 76 seats to win the national…

Israeli-Palestinian Talks Face a Big “So What?” (Time.com)

August 22nd, 2010

Time.com - Wide, long and not very satisfying was the yawn that greeted news that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will resume direct peace talks in Washington next month.

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Worst smog yet hits Moscow; People don face masks (AP)

August 6th, 2010

Tourists wear protective face masks as they walk along the Red square in thick smog, with Saint Basil's Cathedral partially visible in the back, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The city of Moscow was shrouded Friday by a dense smog that grounded flights at binternational/b airports and seeped into homes and offices, as wildfires that have killed 50 people nationwide continued to burn. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - A choking smog from raging wildfires shrouded Moscow on Friday, grounding flights, plunging the city’s iconic Red Square into a sea of dirty mist and stinging eyes and…

Syria bans full Islamic face veils at universities (AP)

July 19th, 2010

A woman wears a burqa as she walks on a street in Saint-Denis, near Paris, April 2, 2010. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/FilesAP - Syria has forbidden the country’s students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman’s eyes — taking aim at a…

Chavez: Owners of opposition TV must face justice (AP)

July 15th, 2010

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, looks on during a ceremony with athletes who will compete in the upcoming Caribbean and Central American Games, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The games will be held in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico July 16-Aug. 1. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)AP - President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela must pursue the extradition from the United States of fugitive owners of a television channel strongly critical of his government so that they…