| Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers |
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| KABUL (AP) -- NATO and Afghan authorities were investigating Saturday whether an airstrike during the intensive search for two missing U.S. paratroopers mistakenly killed eight Afghans and wounded more than 20 Afghan and American forces.... |
| G-20 finance officials: Too early to end stimulus |
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| ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) -- Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured and committed themselves to urgent action on tackling climate change.... |
| To defang Taliban, some look to private schools |
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| QUTBAL, Pakistan (AP) -- The schoolhouse is so tiny that dozens of pupils have to sit outdoors. They're lucky if their teachers have more than a basic education. And the chanting of math equations and Quranic verses gets so loud that the children have a hard time hearing themselves.... |
| Iran lawmakers: No shipment of uranium abroad |
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| TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether.... |
| Afghan gov't says UN representative out of line |
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| KABUL (AP) -- Pushing back against international criticism, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instructions on how to rid the government of corruption and warlords.... |
| West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback |
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| KOURE, Niger (AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.... |
| Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban |
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| KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders - and tattoos - exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.... |
| Guard arrested for torture in Tijuana prison riots |
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| TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.... |
| Unique homecoming to Vietnam for US commander |
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| DANANG, Vietnam (AP) -- On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming - as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.... |
| Lock and roll: Presley's hair for sale at auction |
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| LONDON (AP) -- A British auction house says it's selling a strand of Elvis Presley's hair preserved for decades by a fan.... |