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Plane with 68 said to have crashed in Cuba (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Reuters - A plane reportedly carrying 68 people crashed in central Cuba on Thursday and there were no initial reports of survivors, according to state-run news media and sources at…

5 Germans said killed in Pakistan missile strike (AP)

October 4th, 2010

Pakistani firefighters try to extinguish burning NATO oil tankers following the gunmen attack on the outside of Islamabad. Pakistani Taliban militants have claimed two fiery attacks on Afghanistan-bound NATO supply convoys in which nearly 60 trucks have been torched in three days -- and vowed more to come.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AP - A U.S. missile killed five German militants taking shelter in a house in northwest Pakistan on Monday, intelligence officials said.


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Mia Farrow: Campbell said gift was ‘huge’ diamond (AP)

August 9th, 2010

Actress Mia Farrow is seen on a screen in the pressroom of the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Farrow has told the Charles Taylor war crimes trial that fashion model Naomi Campbell confided she had been sent a 'huge diamond' by the former Liberian ruler in 1997. Farrow appears to contradict Campbell's evidence last week. Campbell told the court on Friday she was given several small stones by unknown men. If Farrow's Monday account is true, it would dent Taylor's denials of any involvement with illicit diamonds. The court did not give permission to take photos of Mia Farrow inside the courtroom. (AP Photo/Robert Vos, Pool)AP - Mia Farrow testified Monday that model Naomi Campbell told her she had been sent a “huge diamond” by former Liberian President Charles Taylor, directly contradicting Campbell’s evidence last…

Pakistan Taliban chief said to survive US attack (AP)

April 29th, 2010

Pakistani soldiers keep guard on the side of a road in Mingora, Swat on April 23, 2010. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodAP - Pakistan and U.S. intelligence wrongly reported the death of the head of the Pakistani Taliban in a CIA drone strike and the brash, ruthless commander is now believed…

Anti-govt protests sweep Kyrgyzstan, 100 said dead (AP)

April 7th, 2010

Blooded Kyrgyz police officers huddle together for protection, as they are attacked by protestors in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010, following clashes with police. Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the main government building amid rioting in the capital as protests spread across the Central Asian nation. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - The main opposition leader in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has said on national television that 100 protesters have been killed in clashes with police trying to…

Anti-govt protests sweep Kyrgyzstan, 17 said dead (AP)

April 7th, 2010

People carry an injured man near the main government building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Clashes have broken out at an anti-government demonstration in Kyrgystan's capital, with protesters setting fire to cars and police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.(AP Photo/Azamat Imanaliyev)AP - Anti-government protests have swept across the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan and riot police have opened fire on thousands storming the main government building in the capital of…

CIA victim said to have rescued future Afghan pres (AP)

April 7th, 2010

In this undated photo released by Habib Rahman, Gul Rahman is shown. Gul Rahman died in the early hours of Nov. 20, 2002, after being shackled to a cold cement wall in a secret CIA prison in northern Kabul known as the Salt Pit, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with the case. Rahman also once rescued Hamid Karzai, wading through rocket and small-arms fire to take the wounded future president to safety in Pakistan, according to his brother and former associates. (AP Photo/Habib Rahman, Ho)   NO SALESAP - The only prisoner known to have died in the CIA’s network of secret prisons once rescued Hamid Karzai, wading through rocket and small-arms fire to take the wounded…