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Police say bombing of mosque in Pakistan kills 2 (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, seen here on October 18. The United States is looking to expand support for Pakistan in high-level talks, but also encouraging its frontline partner to do more after a string of disputes on how to fight Islamic extremism.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)AP - Police say a bomb has exploded in a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least two people.


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3 bombs kill 36 in northwest Pakistan (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

AP - Three bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan — two in tribal regions near the Afghan border and a third near the region’s main city of Peshawar — killed at…

Officials: US drones kill 6 in northwest Pakistan (AP)

August 21st, 2010

A Pakistani woman weeps as she stands with others crowding around a Pakistan Army helicopter after it arrived to deliver food aid for the United Nations World Food Program in  the flood encircled village of Tul in , Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles fired from an unmanned drone killed six militants Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.


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Northwest Pakistanis Angered by Insufficient Flood Response (Time.com)

August 3rd, 2010

Time.com - Already ravaged by the Taliban, the country’s northwest is now pummeled by waters that are affecting as many people as the rebellion has

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Gunman kills 5, wounds 25 in northwest England (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

This is a undated handout photo issued by Cumbria Police on Wednesday June 2, 2010 of Derrick Bird, 52, from Rowrah, northwest England,  who police want to speak to in connection with a daylight shooting spree in Cumbria northwest England . British police were hunting down a Bird  suspected in a shooting spree that has left more than one person dead . (AP Photo/Cumbria Police, Ho)  **  EDITORIAL USE ONLY  **AP - A taxi driver described as quiet but friendly went on a shooting spree across a picturesque rural area of northwestern England on Wednesday, killing at least five people…

10 dead in northwest Pakistan missile strike (AP)

May 11th, 2010

Protesters from the troubled Pakistani region of Waziristan stage a protest near the country's parliament in Islamabad. Pakistani officials have put the death toll from the latest round of US drone attacks at 14, after a series of strikes on a militant compound.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)AP - Several suspected U.S. missiles destroyed two vehicles and makeshift homes in a tribal region near Afghanistan early Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding four, two intelligence…

US consulate attacked in northwest Pakistan (AP)

April 5th, 2010

Map locates Peshawar, Pakistan, where four bombs exploded near the U.S. ConsulateAP - Islamist militants unleashed a car bomb and grenade attack against a U.S. consulate in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing four people and striking back after months of American…

Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 13 (AP)

March 13th, 2010

Pakistan's army troops remove a dead body from the site of suicide bombing in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, March 13, 2010. A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of people and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)AP - A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 13 people, injuring 52…

Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 10 (AP)

March 13th, 2010

Pakistan's army troops remove a dead body from the site of suicide bombing in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, March 13, 2010. A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of people and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)AP - A suicide attacker set off a bomb at a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 52, officials and a doctor…

Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 7 (AP)

March 13th, 2010

Pakistan's security officials and investigator gather near an army truck damaged by suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, March 12, 2010. A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other, killing scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 26.


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