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KABUL — With the deaths of six troops on Thursday and Friday, July has become the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nearly nine-year-long war in Afghanistan. Read more
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ISLAMABAD/LONDON (Reuters) – Pakistan’s spy chief has canceled a trip to Britain, a spokesman said on Saturday, but Islamabad played down a row over remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron suggesting Pakistan was not doing enough to fight terrorism. Read more
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BILOXI Mississippi (Reuters) – BP said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as the House of Representatives voted to toughen regulation of offshore energy drilling. Read more
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Pakistani intelligence officials cancel a visit to Britain in protest at comments made by David Cameron about Pakistan’s alleged links to terror. Read more
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The IMF on Friday lowered its 2011 growth forecast for the Spanish economy to 0.6 percent from the 0.9 percent it foresaw in April and warned the recovery “is likely to be weak and fragile.” Read more
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DUISBURG, Germany – Germany was holding a memorial service on Saturday for the victims of the Love Parade techno music festival, where 21 people were crushed to death and 500 injured. The memorial was to be held at Salvator Church and shown live on screens in a football stadium and a dozen other churches in [...]
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THE two surviving daughters of the French nursing assistant who admitted killing eight of her babies have said that “she was a model mother who supported us at all times”. Read more
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Here we just boo our players when they fail (or give them more money) but in Pyongyang they do things differently. Read more
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LONDON – An Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning was lifted earlier this month says she’s grateful for the international support she’s received, but remains heartbroken at the separation from her children and tormented by the fear she could still be executed, a rights activist said Friday. Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]