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Taliban attack key US base in Afghanistan (AP)

May 19th, 2010

US soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force patrol near Bagram Air Base. Taliban militants armed with rockets, guns and grenades attacked the largest NATO base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking gun battles that killed seven insurgents and wounded seven NATO soldiers.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AP - Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, killing an American contractor and wounding nine service members in the second Taliban strike…

Grisly find in Mexico: Dismembered police officers (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

Masked state police stand near the body of a man lying in the street in Santa Catarina near Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, March 21, 2010.  According to local media reports, the man was killed when unidentified gunmen tried to kill Santa Catarina Police Chief Rene Castillo Sanchez who was injured. (AP Photo)AP - The pre-dawn discovery of two bodies cut into pieces and shoved into two black bags brought a tragic end Monday to a search for two missing police officers…

Earthquake flattens Turkish villages, kills 51 (AP)

March 8th, 2010

Rescue workers and people remove rubble from a destroyed house in Okcular village in the eastern province of Elazig, Turkey, Monday, March 8, 2010, hours after a strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey early Monday. The temblor struck six villages in Elazig province, toppling stone or mud-brick homes and minarets of mosques. (AP Photo/ Omer Fansa, Anatolia)AP - A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets…