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US: Dead in Afghan chopper crash were all American (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

In this Sept.15, 2010 photo, a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter from the 101st Airborne Division transports U.S. infantrymen from one position to another in Zhari District, southern Afghanistan. Going increasingly on the offensive in this district near Kandahar City, American commanders are hoping to clear Taliban-held areas and fighting positions in the weeks and months ahead, before President Barack Obama makes a critical assessment in December of the effectiveness of the 30,000-man surge. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - All nine troops killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week — the worst for the coalition forces in four years — were Americans, the Pentagon confirmed, although…

Lebanon PM: accusations against Syria were mistake (AP)

September 6th, 2010

AP - Lebanon’s prime minister says it was a mistake to accuse Syria of being behind the 2005 assassination of his father.

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AP source: Unlikely 2 men were plotting terror (AP)

August 31st, 2010

Graphic on the movements of two men on a US flight arrested on arrival in Holland after their luggage was reportedly found with box cutters, knives and a cellphone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle.(AFP/Graphic)AP - A U.S. government official says the FBI’s investigation of two men detained in Amsterdam is finding that it’s unlikely they were on a test run for a future…

Banning Political Humor: No Satire Please, We’re Brazilian (Time.com)

August 26th, 2010

Time.com - Brazil has decided to ban political satire on radio and television — exacerbating a colorless presidential campaign season

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“Unjustified and Unjustifiable”: Bloody Sunday Inquiry Says Victims Were Innocent (Time.com)

June 15th, 2010

Time.com - After the longest and most expensive inquiry in British legal history, the families of Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday victims claim a victory as the report lays the blame…

Police: Lahore attackers were Pakistani Taliban (AP)

May 29th, 2010

People from Ahmadi Community carry a casket of a victim of Friday's attacked by Islamic militants, to bury it in their graveyard in Rabwa, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest from Lahore Pakistan on Saturday, May 29, 2010. Islamist gunmen and a suicide squad lobbed grenades, sprayed bullets from atop a minaret and took hostages Friday in attacks on two mosques packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Police on Saturday blamed the Pakistani Taliban for attacks that killed 93 people at two mosques belonging to a minority sect, and said the militants involved had trained…

Children in China school attack were as young as 3 (AP)

May 13th, 2010

An injured child holds a paper made bird while being transferred from intensive care unit to a room for further treatment at a hospital in Hanzhong, north China's Shaanxi Province Thursday, May 13, 2010. A man charged into a kindergarten in northwestern China with a cleaver Wednesday and hacked to death seven children and two adults, the fifth such rampage in less than two months. The attacker then went home and killed himself. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Children as young as 3 years old were among the victims targeted in an attack at a kindergarten in northwestern China that killed seven toddlers and two adults,…

NATO: Shooting victims were 4 Afghan civilians (AP)

April 21st, 2010

Afghans carry bodies of four people killed when they ignored warnings to stop by one of NATO's convoys in Khost province late Monday, southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. NATO said two of those killed in the incident were later identified as 'known insurgents,' although the provincial chief of police said the dead were all civilians, and included a 12-year-old child. (AP Photo)AP - NATO acknowledged Wednesday that four unarmed Afghans who were killed this week when a military convoy opened fire on their vehicle were all civilians, correcting an earlier claim…