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Indonesia investigates train crash that killed 36 (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Rescuers search for victims of a train crash near a station in Petarukan in Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The early morning train crash killed dozens of people and injured another dozens, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo)AP - Police were investigating a train crash Sunday that killed 36 people and injured dozens, putting a spotlight once again on Indonesia’s aging infrastructure and poor safety record.


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NATO claims insurgent captures; 2 Romanians killed (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. William Dixon, left, holds the hands of retired Marine Corps Col. Thomas Minion, and Janet Minion, after delivering the flag to them at the reinternment ceremony for their son, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Travis Manion, of Doylestown, Penn., at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va. on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Manion was buried in Pennsylvania after being killed in Iraq in 2007, and is being reinterned at Arlington so that he can be buried next to his best friend, Marine Corps Lt. Brendan Looney, who was killed in Afghanistan and will be buried on Monday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - NATO said Friday it captured several insurgent leaders in recent days and detained at least 438 suspected militants over the last month, as three coalition soldiers were killed…

Dozens killed in Indonesian train crash (AP)

October 1st, 2010

AP - A train crash in central Indonesia killed at least 25 people and left many others injured Saturday, many with burns and broken bones, witnesses told local television.

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5 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

September 30th, 2010

British soldiers with the Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment patrol Helmand Province in June 2010. The commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan has said the Taliban are approaching the Afghan government and foreign forces about laying down arms after almost nine years of insurgency.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - Five NATO service members were killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the scene of heavy fighting as troops push into areas long controlled by the Taliban, the coalition said.


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5 killed as storm blasts through Haiti tent camps (AP)

September 25th, 2010

An earthquake survivor tries to set up her tent after it fell down due to heavy rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Powerful winds from a rainstorm tore down trees, billboards and the tent homes of earthquake survivors. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A freak storm blasted through Haiti’s capital on Friday, killing at least five earthquake survivors as it tore down trees, billboards and tent homes, authorities said.


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Colombia: No. 2 rebel commander killed in raid (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

FILE - In this June 28, 2001, file photo, Jorge Briceno, military commander of the Colombian rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, smiles at a rebel camp in La Macarena, Colombia. National police spokesman Wilson Vaquero told The Associated Press that Briceno, also known as Mono Jojoy, was killed Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in Colombia's eastern plains during a military raid. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, file)AP - Colombia’s military killed the No. 2 leader and top military strategist of the country’s main rebel army in blistering bombardments of a major jungle camp, officials announced Thursday,…

21 killed in fighting in Somalia’s capital city (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

The bodies of suspected insurgents lay near the former parliament building after they were killed during fighting in Mogadishu,Somalia,Thursday,Sept. 23 ,2010. Heavy fighting between Islamist militants and pro-government troops raged in several parts of Somalia's capital Thursday, in which scores of people were killed and wounded, an official said.(AP Photo/ Mohamed Sheikh Nor)AP - Heavy fighting between Islamist militants and pro-government troops raged in several parts of Somalia’s capital Thursday, killing at least 21 people and wounding nearly 78, an official said.


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Colombia: No. 2 rebel commander killed (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

AP - Colombian authorities say the field marshal and No. 2 commander of the country’s main leftist rebel group has been killed in a military raid.

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25 militants killed in attack on Afghan-NATO camp (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

British soldiers walk towards a military helicopter during a patrol of Afghanistan's Helmand province in March 2010. British forces transferred control of security for Sangin district in southern Afghanistan to US troops, the defence ministry said on Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Insurgents attacked a NATO and Afghan army outpost in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border and at least 25 of the militants were killed in the resulting skirmish,…

9 NATO troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash (AP)

September 21st, 2010

British soldiers walk towards a military helicopter during a patrol of Afghanistan's Helmand province in March 2010. British forces transferred control of security for Sangin district in southern Afghanistan to US troops, the defence ministry said on Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - A NATO helicopter crashed Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, killing nine international troops in a region where forces are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents. It was the deadliest chopper…