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Uncertainty over US plans as war enters 10th year (AP)

October 6th, 2010

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 4, 2006 file picture, a woman looks out through a destroyed window after a bomb exploded in Kabul, Afghanistan in front of a cinema near the presidential palace, wounding at least four people, police said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) PHOTO PACKAGE FOR USE WITH AFGHANISTAN ANNIVERSARY STORIESAP - It’s make-or-break time in Afghanistan.


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UK: No elections next year in Turks and Caicos (AP)

September 21st, 2010

AP - An election to return self governance for the Turks and Caicos Islands has been postponed, a British Foreign Office minister announced Tuesday, extending London’s direct rule over the…

Iran to release 1 of 3 jailed Americans (AP)

September 9th, 2010

A picture obtained from Iran's state-run English-language Press TV shows detained US hikers (from left) Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal in Tehran in May 2010. One of three US hikers detained in Iran for more than a year is to be freed on Saturday, the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance told AFP in a text message.(AFP/PRESS TV/File)AP - Iran’s Culture Ministry says one of the three Americans jailed for more than a year will be released Saturday.


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Year since bomber freed, Lockerbie tries to move on (AFP)

August 19th, 2010

File photo shows some of the damage caused to the Scottish village of Lockerbie following the blowing up of a Pan Am airliner in late December 1988. The quiet Scottish town is determined to play down the forthcoming one-year anniversary of the freeing of the Libyan man convicted of bombing the airliner over its skies.(AFP/File/Letkey)AFP - The quiet Scottish town of Lockerbie is determined to play down Friday’s one-year anniversary of the freeing of the Libyan man convicted of blowing up an airliner over…

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August 11th, 2010

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UN: Afghan civilian deaths rise sharply this year (AP)

August 10th, 2010

Relatives and friends carry coffin of Jawed, 27, one of the two Afghans killed by gunmen in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, from a morgue in a military hospital in Kabul. The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of six Americans citizens who were among eight foreigners gunned down in northeastern Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban, a US official said Monday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AP - The number of civilians killed in the Afghan war jumped 25 percent in the first half of 2010 compared with the same period last year, with insurgents responsible…

Pakistan bomb death toll hits 102, worst this year (AP)

July 10th, 2010

A Pakistani hospital guard carries an injured child to a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, July 9, 2010. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck outside a government office Friday in a tribal region where Pakistan's army has fought the Taliban, killing scores of people and left many injured, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)AP - As Adnan Khan sifted through the rubble in this northwest Pakistani village Saturday, his grief mingled with a sense of disbelief. Of the 102 people killed by a…

Cost of the queen: less than $1 per person a year (AP)

July 5th, 2010

Queen Elizabeth II, left, smiles while talking to jockey David Moran at The Queen's Plate at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto on Sunday, July 4, 2010. The royal couple is on a nine-day tour of Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Nathan Denette)AP - Like millions of her subjects, Queen Elizabeth II is going to have to make do and mend — cutting spending and putting off palace repairs as royal finances…

Whaling meeting delays decision on hunting 1 year (AP)

June 25th, 2010

FILE - In this Jan 23, 2009 file photo provided by Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service, a pod of sperm whales are seen stranded on a sand bar off Perkins Island, Australia's Tasmania state. Levels of cadmium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury and titanium together are the highest ever found in marine mammals, scientists who spent five years shooting nearly 1,000 sperm whales with tissue-sampling darts say, warning that the health of both ocean life and the people who consume seafood could be at risk. (AP Photo/Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service, File) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Native people of Greenland won a long battle Friday to extend their annual whale hunt to humpbacks, overriding objections from conservation-minded members of the International Whaling Commission.


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UN: Peru coca crop up 4th straight year (AP)

June 22nd, 2010

AP - Peru’s coca crop grew for a fourth straight year, edging the country closer to its South American neighbor Colombia in overall cultivation of the raw material of cocaine,…

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