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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
KABUL, Afghanistan - The women gave a news conference but requested that no one take pictures of their faces. The office of one of them asked reporters not to publish her name.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
MUMBAI, India - Airports in India went on high alert Thursday following fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's much-maligned police officers - underpaid, ill-equipped and frequently accused of corruption - remain the single biggest wild card in the coalition strategy to allow foreign troops to eventually leave this battle-weary country.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military junta transferred at least seven political prisoners, including a famous comedian and a hip-hop singer, to far-flung prisons across the country, family members said Thursday.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush have bought a home in an affluent neighbourhood of north Dallas where they will live after the president leaves office in January.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
LONDON - Europe's top human rights court Thursday struck down a British law that allows the government to store DNA and fingerprints from people with no criminal record - a landmark decision that could force Britain to destroy nearly one million samples on its database.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A Canadian truck driver has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for smuggling 112 kilograms of marijuana into the United States in the cab of his truck.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
BELGRADE, Serbia - Masked policemen scoured the Belgrade home of Ratko Mladic's son and four other sites in the capital Thursday in an intensified hunt for the fugitive genocide suspect.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A police chief was among three men indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of an eight-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi at a gun show.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
HEBRON, West Bank - Israeli soldiers hauled Jewish settlers out of a disputed house in the West Bank city of Hebron Thursday, firing tear gas and stun grenades to subdue the extremists who pelted them with rocks, eggs and chemicals. Rioting by settlers quickly spread to other parts of the Palestinian territory.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
BAGHDAD - Iraq's presidential council Thursday approved a security pact that sets out a three-year timeframe for American troops to leave, a spokesman said.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Canadian government appears determined to avoid any further controversy on the touchy subject of Afghan politics after word that the new governor of Kandahar province, Rahmatullah Raufi, has been fired.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe declared a national emergency over a cholera epidemic and the collapse of its health care system, and the state media reported Thursday the government is seeking more international help to pay for food and drugs to combat the crisis.
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
LOS ANGELES - A NASA insider says the space agency is delaying launch of a giant Mars robotic mission.
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