More service members than initially believed were involved in misconduct in Colombia ahead of last weekend's Summit of the Americas, the Pentagon said Monday.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has told Pakistan’s president that the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers were not deliberate attacks and that the U.S. is committed to a full investigation. The strikes along the border with Afghanistan last weekend have further strained ties between the U.S. and Pakistan as the Obama administration tries to wind down the war in Afghanistan. Read full article > >
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Obama to Pakistan’s president: NATO bombing not deliberate attack, US committed to full probe
NEW DELHI — It was billed as a new assertiveness, when India’s usually meek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh supposedly looked his Chinese counterpart in the eye at a summit in Bali last weekend and defended his country’s “commercial” right to explore for oil and gas in the South China Sea. But it was also a sign of rising frictions between India and China, and of what experts see as a dangerous new game between the world’s most populous nations. Read full article > >
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China, India perform dangerous new dance of encircler, counter-encircler
Still healing from the devastating terrorist attack just under a month ago, Norwegians are preparing for local elections. While all talk of and about politics was informally banned by the parties themselves until now, last weekend saw the first TV debates and campaign kick-offs in several major cities.
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Norway’s Elections: After the Terror
Missouri authorities have identified 17 additional people killed in last weekend’s tornado, bringing the toll of the United States’ single deadliest twister ever recorded to 139 deaths, authorities said Saturday.
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Joplin twister’s death toll rises to 142
Dissident republicans are continuing to target police officers, despite the widespread condemnation of the murder of Ronan Kerr last weekend, police sources tell the BBC.
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A woman who claimed to be the victim of a brutal late-night attack that left her co-worker murdered in a Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda, Maryland, last weekend is now being charged with murder, police reported Saturday. Brittany Norwood, 27, was…
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Amanda Knox, who was convicted of murder in 2007 and sentenced to 26 years in jail, was hyperventilating from her prison cell last weekend after seeing a newscast of Lifetime’s TV movie, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy. The newscast featured…
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Mourners will honor the life of a retired construction worker who died shielding his wife from a spray of bullets in last weekend’s Arizona massacre.
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Funeral set for man who shielded wife in Ariz. shooting
Arizona will on Friday pay tribute to a federal judge killed in a shooting rampage last weekend that left five others dead.
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Tanzania’s incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete is declared the winner of last weekend’s elections, officials say.
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