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US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:30:53 GMT
 AP - In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war.
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Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:24:29 GMT
 AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a "national war" on delinquency.
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US investigates threats against Mexican consulate
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:49:39 GMT
 AP - The U.S. State Department said Friday it is evaluating threats surrounding the consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez as hundreds with appointments for visa applications and other services stood outside the shuttered office wondering what to do.
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Bike riding in London is risky business
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:48:01 GMT
 AP - Feel like living dangerously?
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5.7 quake shakes Iran
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:27:10 GMT
AP - A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled the northeast Iranian city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh on Friday, injuring at least 110 people.
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Is Yemen in the Middle of Another Undeclared War?
(Time.com)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:50:00 GMT
Time.com - Officially, the country says it has a ceasefire with rebels in the north but warplanes and over-run military bases indicate otherwise. And then there's al-Qaeda.
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Berlusconi split with ally erodes once comfortable majority
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:19:42 GMT
 AFP - Italy's Silvio Berlusconi saw the erosion of his once comfortable majority in parliament Friday as 33 lawmakers defected in support of the prime minister's estranged longtime ally.
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Syria, Saudi leaders travel together to Lebanon
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:28:19 GMT
 AP - The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia, once bitter rivals, made an unprecedented show of cooperation Friday, traveling together to Lebanon in hopes of preventing any violence if members of a militant group are indicted in the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister.
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Peru: Spy husband could face fraud charges
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:06:01 GMT
 AP - A Peruvian journalist whom the U.S. deported to Russia this month in a spy swap is free to return home but her Russian husband could be charged with lying on his citizenship application, Peru's foreign minister said Friday.
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U.N. tells Darfur peace force to focus on security
(Reuters)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:24:36 GMT
 Reuters - The U.N. Security Council extended the stay of peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region by another year on Friday, telling the force to focus primarily on protecting civilians and aid deliveries.
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White House urges halt to spilling of war secrets
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:45:34 GMT
 AP - The Obama administration on Friday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents, as the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the massive security breach by bringing a soldier under scrutiny back to the U.S. for trial.
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Economic growth ticks higher in May
(Reuters)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:58:01 GMT
Reuters - Growth in Canada's economy edged up in May after stalling unexpectedly in April, helped by strength in the goods-producing sectors led by oil and gas extraction, while the service sector faltered for a second straight month.
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Former Australian PM Rudd hospitalised
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:35:54 GMT
 AFP - Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was Friday admitted to hospital for surgery to treat severe stomach pain -- one month after he was dramatically removed from office by his own party.
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Pentagon rethinking who can access secret information
(McClatchy Newspapers)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:11:00 GMT
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A low-ranking Army soldier suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents had access to the documents because U.S. officials have pressed to make sure secret information is available to combat units.
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Rare Arab summit to forestall possible Hezbollah unrest in Lebanon
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:58:34 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Syria arrived in Beirut Friday for an unprecedented summit with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman. The visit comes amid rising regional concern over the potentially explosive findings of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
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French Baby Killings: Was it Mental Illness or Murder?
(Time.com)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:50:00 GMT
Time.com - Now that Dominique Cottrez has confessed to killing her eight newborn children, France waits to find out whether the awful act was driven by psychosis or premeditated murder
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Kenya Divided by the Colours of a New Constitution
(OneWorld.net)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:23:22 GMT
OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jul 30 (IRIN) - Less than three years after a closely fought
presidential election plunged Kenya into widespread violence and
displaced thousands, the country is bracing itself for another crucial
and equally divisive ballot, this time on a new constitution.
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