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Afghan handover could run past 2015 in areas: NATO (Reuters)

November 17th, 2010

Canadian soldiers head out on a patrol during an operation in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, September 20, 2009. Picture taken September 20, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'ReillyReuters - The handover from NATO-led forces to Afghans should start in the first half of 2011 but poor security in some areas could see it run past a 2014…

Afghan handover could run past 2015 in some areas: NATO (Reuters)

November 17th, 2010

Reuters - The military handover from NATO-led forces to Afghans could run past an end-2014 target date in some areas because of lingering security problems, a senior NATO official in…

A Mass Grave Raises Ghosts of Romania’s Holocaust Past (Time.com)

November 12th, 2010

Time.com - Romania has long downplayed its role in the Holocaust, but the discovery of a mass grave of Jewish victims could force the country to face its past

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A Brief History of Yemen: Rich Past, Impoverished Present (Time.com)

November 1st, 2010

Time.com - Today one of the major centers of global terrorism, the country was once the biblical Sheba and a crossroads of global trade and culture

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21 miners free; Chile rescue past halfway mark (AP)

October 13th, 2010

In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Mario Gomez, left, gestures as he meets his wife for the first time after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010.  (AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)AP - The miners who spent 69 agonizing days deep under the Chilean earth were hoisted one by one to freedom Wednesday, their rescue moving with remarkable speed while their…

19 miners free; Chile rescue past halfway mark (AP)

October 13th, 2010

In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Mario Gomez, left, gestures as he meets his wife for the first time after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010.  (AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)AP - The miners who spent 69 agonizing days deep under the Chilean earth were hoisted one by one to freedom Wednesday, their rescue moving with remarkable speed while their…

18 miners free; Chile rescue past halfway mark (AP)

October 13th, 2010

In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Mario Gomez, left, gestures as he meets his wife for the first time after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010.  (AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)AP - The miners who spent 69 agonizing days deep under the Chilean earth were hoisted one by one to freedom Wednesday, their rescue moving with remarkable speed while their…

US helps Sudan town move past ‘hungriest place’ (AP)

October 4th, 2010

Southern Sudanese soldiers wait on Akobo landing strip during the arrival of high level US, UN and southern Sudanese officials on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The US Consul-General in Juba, Ambassador Barrie Walkley and Leis Grande traveled to Akobo to celebrate the formal opening of several US-funded building projects, including a new county headquarters. The United States and other binternational/b donors targeted significant funds at Akobo in a bid to curtail serious intertribal fighting there in recent years. (AP Photo/Pete Muller) --AP - International officials once visited this straw-hut town to examine skeletal children and make plans to combat a brewing famine. Now six months later, fears of mass hunger are…

Death toll in Pakistani floods surges past 800 (AP)

July 31st, 2010

A Pakistani villager salvages a washing machine through deep floodwater on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Saturday, July 31, 2010. The death toll in the massive flooding in Pakistan surged past 800 as floodwaters receded Saturday in the hard-hit northwest, an official said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims and some evacuees showed…

Austrian bishop questions celibacy (AP)

May 12th, 2010

AP - An Austrian bishop who has disagreed with the Vatican in the past about needed reforms said in an interview published Wednesday that the Catholic church should drop its…