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Safety Concerns Grow Over Quran Burn
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:29:10 GMT |
As Florida officials worried about public safety surrounding a small church's plan to burn the Quran, President Barack Obama added his voice to the chorus of opposition to the church's intention to burn copies of Islam's holiest text to mark the 9/11 terrorist attacks. |
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Iran to release 1 of 3 jailed Americans in holiday clemency
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:35:59 GMT |
US hikers Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal during a meeting with their mothers in Tehran on May 20, 2010. |
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Car bomb kills 16 at market in Russia's Caucasus
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:12:55 GMT |
A suicide bomber killed himself and 16 other people in a huge blast near a busy market in Russia's North Caucasus on Thursday in a new blow to Kremlin efforts to rein in a growing Islamic insurgency. |
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Al-Qaeda men run from Baghdad jail
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:31:19 GMT |
Four prisoners at the Karkh prison in Baghdad have fled in an escape which authorities have described as "regrettable." US military officials running a section of the jail, which was formerly Camp Cropper, said the men who escaped were regarded as dangerous, as they had ties to al-Qaeda. The inmates were found to have escaped from the US section ... |
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World waits for unveiling of NKorean heir apparent
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:26:25 GMT |
North Korean children are already singing the praises of the young man in line to become the reclusive nation's next leader, analysts say, but the rest of the world doesn't even know the age, or, until recently, how to spell the name of Kim Jong Il's youngest son. |
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Tokyo may challenge Beijing to allow yuan bond purchases
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:35:33 GMT |
Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said the government may challenge China to allow Japanese purchases of Chinese bonds, to help to curb the surging yen, and is looking into a recent jump in Chinese buying of Japanese debt. |
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Mexico 'looking more and more like Colombia'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:53:59 GMT |
The third Mexican mayor in a month was slain by suspected drug gang hitmen on the same day the U.S. secretary of state raised hackles in Mexico by saying the country is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago." Hillary Rodham Clinton and other U.S. officials pointed to Mexican drug cartels' use of three car bombs, a tool once ... |
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Somali refugees tell of hellish scene in Mogadishu
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:11:01 GMT |
Two bodies lie in front of the Mogadishu airport gate Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked the front gate to Mogadishu's seaside airport on Thursday, triggering an explosion and gunbattle, officials said. |
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Soldier 'warned dad of Afghan deaths'
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:56:33 GMT |
THE father of a US soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the army: troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threatened him to keep quiet about it. |
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Minister condemns German lawmaker comment on WWII
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:39:00 GMT |
Germany's foreign minister condemned on Thursday comments by a lawmaker that suggested Poland provoked Nazi Germany ahead of the World War II. |
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