Published: October 31, 2009
Sources: Abdullah to pull out of Afghan runoff
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KABUL – Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah plans to boycott next week’s runoff against incumbent Hamid Karzai following a breakdown in talks on how to fix the country’s electoral crisis, two people familiar with the discussions said.
A boycott would severely undermine a vote intended to affirm the Afghan government’s credibility. However, an Abdullah spokesman said [...]
Published: October 31, 2009
Somali pirates: Western boats 'loot' Somali fish
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MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somali pirates who are demanding $7 million in ransom for a British sailing couple say boats from other countries are “looting” Somalia’s fish-rich waters.
Ahmed Gadaf, who says he’s a spokesman for the pirates, says Western fishing vessels “harass” local fishermen and destroy their nets. Gadaf spoke to The Associated Press by satellite [...]
Published: October 31, 2009
Bomb kills 7 soldiers in Pakistani tribal region
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ISLAMABAD – Suspected Taliban militants set off a roadside bomb that killed seven paramilitary soldiers Saturday in a rugged tribal region of northwestern Pakistan, while government jets pounded Taliban hideouts elsewhere and killed at least 15 fighters, officials said.
Pakistan’s prime minister said the government, which is in the midst of an anti-Taliban offensive, has no [...]
Published: October 30, 2009
Iowa's early Halloween-goers need jokes for treats
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DES MOINES, Iowa – There’s no trick to earning a treat for Halloween in Des Moines. All that’s required is a good joke. Even if it’s a bad joke.
“What’s the skeleton’s favorite instrument? The trombone!” said 10-year-old Anna Mattern. “But you have to emphasize the bone.”
For decades, as the city’s make-believe ghosts and goblins trekked [...]
Published: October 30, 2009
Military plane, helicopter collide off California
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LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early Friday for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said.
The crash was reported at 7:10 p.m. Thursday, about 50 miles off the San Diego County coast [...]
Published: October 30, 2009
Police seek shooter who wounded 2 at LA synagogue
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LOS ANGELES – Police on Friday pressed forward with their hunt for a gunman, a day after he wounded two men in the parking garage of a Los Angeles synagogue.
Mori Ben-Nissan, 38, and Allen Lasry, 53, were shot in the legs in the parking garage underneath the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue in North [...]
Published: October 30, 2009
Obama to meet military brass on Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON (AFP) –
President Barack Obama meets his top military chiefs Friday to talk strategy in Pakistan and Afghanistan in one of the final steps before deciding whether to send thousands more US troops to war.
Obama invited the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the heads of the branches of the US armed services, to the secure White [...]
Published: October 30, 2009
Clinton faces Pakistani anger at Predator attacks
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Published: October 30, 2009
Clinton says US can find way out of Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. presence in wartorn Afghanistan “is not an open-ended, never-ending commitment.”
In an interview from Pakistan broadcast Friday on NBC’s “Today” show, Clinton replied “absolutely” when asked whether there is a way out for America in the protracted conflict in South Asia.
In a separate interview on [...]
Published: October 30, 2009
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