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Italian police seize $30M from Vatican in probe (AP)

September 21st, 2010

Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Just when the Catholic Church didn't need another scandal, Italian authorities have seized euro23 million ($30.18 million) from a Vatican bank account and begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money laundering probe. The Vatican said Tuesday it was 'perplexed and surprised' by the investigation. Italian financial police seized the money as a precaution Tuesday and prosecutors placed the Vatican bank's director general and its chairman, a man who speaks frequently about morality in financing, under investigation for alleged mistakes linked to violations of Italy's anti-laundering laws, news reports said. In Tuesday's case, police seized the money from a Vatican bank account being held at the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano Spa according to news agencies ANSA and Apcom. (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)AP - Italian authorities seized euro23 million ($30.18 million) from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with…

Quadruple amputee plans swim from Europe to Africa (AP)

September 20th, 2010

Philllipe Croizon, a Frenchman whose arms and legs were amputated jokes during a press conference in Wissant, northern France, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010 after crossing the English Channel this weekend using leg prostheses that have flippers attached. Croizon, 42, had expected the tough crossing to take up to 24 hours and instead, he finished in only 13 and a half. (AP Photo/ Michel Spingler)AP - Just days after swimming across the English Channel, quadruple amputee Philippe Croizon is already dreaming of a new challenge: crossing from Europe to Africa in the Strait of…

American freed from Iran begins trip back to US (AP)

September 18th, 2010

American Sarah Shourd, makes statements at the VIP Lounge of Muscat airport before she flies out of Muscat, Oman, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo / Kamran Jebreili)AP - An American woman released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody began her journey back to the United States on Saturday after asking her supporters to…

How goes Iraq? View from a bookstore is revealing (AP)

September 18th, 2010

AP - The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003.

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4 Iraqis escape from US custody in Baghdad prison (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pictured in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on August 8. Plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks could be used by extremists as a AP - Four prisoners with links to al-Qaida have escaped from the U.S.-controlled part of a maximum-security prison in Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.


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Afghans continue pulling money from troubled bank (AP)

September 4th, 2010

Afghans walk past a branch of the Kabul Bank in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Larger than usual crowds gathered to withdraw funds from Afghanistan's largest bank Thursday, but there was little sign that questions surrounding its viability had sparked a major panic. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Nervous Afghans pulled more deposits out of the nation’s largest bank on Saturday, despite assurances from government leaders that their money was safe.


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Toll from attack on Pakistani Shiites jumps to 65 (AP)

September 4th, 2010

Volunteers help injured people following an explosion during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Police say a blast at a Shiite procession has killed scores of people in southwestern Pakistan in the third deadly attack this week on the country's religious minorities.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - Pakistani police say the death toll from a suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospital.


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August 27th, 2010

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Looking at lessons that can be learned from Iraq (AP)

August 27th, 2010

AP - They are different wars in different regions, with different challenges. But as the war in Iraq winds down, there is a lot the U.S. military can learn and…

US man freed from N. Korea known as deep, affable (AP)

August 27th, 2010

FILE - A Jan. 12, 2010 file photo shows American Aijalon Mahli Gomes, during a rally denouncing North Korean's human rights conditions at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas. Former President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea on Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010 on a mission U.S. officials said was aimed at bringing home the imprisoned American. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - An American who was imprisoned in North Korea for illegally crossing the border has a gentle spirit but is also a person of conviction willing to be bold…

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