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CNN
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A resurgent Taliban is back in charge over parts of Afghanistan, the chief U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday in an assessment that differed from the one made last month by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. More than six years after the United States..
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SF Gate
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About the same time he was being praised by U.S. commanders Sunday for his role in improving security in Babil province south of Baghdad, a popular police chief was killed by a roadside bomb that struck his convoy.
Major Gen. Qais al-Maamouri died alon..
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BBC News
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A powerful roadside bomb has killed the governor and police chief of the southern Iraqi province of Diwaniya.
The governor was a key figure in the Badr Organisation, the military wing of the largest Shia Muslim party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council..
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Globe and Mail
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Pentagon chief Robert Gates responded Sunday to Vladimir Putin's assault on U.S. foreign policy by saying “one Cold War is enough” and that he would go to Moscow to try to reduce tensions. Mr. Gates also sought more allied help in Afghanistan. H..
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Ynet News
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After countless declarations of peaceful intentions of nuclear plan, Iran's chief nuclear envoy confirms fears by saying if county is threatened, situation may change..
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MSNBC
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British Chief of the Defense Staff Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup confirmed Friday that the army will pull Harry out of Afghanistan after news of his deployment there was leaked.
Harry, third in line to the British throne, has been serving on the front..
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BBC News
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An Iraqi police chief has died in an apparent ambush as he toured the site of a blast that had killed at least 34 people in the northern city of Mosul.
Brig Gen Saleh Mohammed Hassan was fleeing the area after gunmen opened fire on his convoy, reports..
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BBC News
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The Lebanese army's chief of operations, General Francois al-Hajj, has been killed in a bomb attack.
Three other people also died in the blast in the Christian town of Baabda, close to the presidential palace, on the outskirts of the capital Beirut...
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SF Gate
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The chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday that he hoped to have answers by year's end about how Iran acquired black-market nuclear technology and admonished Iranian officials to do more to defuse fears that their nation is building an at..
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Yahoo News
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UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday he had no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding "fuel to the fire" with recent bellicose rhetoric.
"We haven't received any information there is a parallel..
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MSNBC
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Two nearly simultaneous car bombs targeted a local police chief and a prominent Sunni sheik working with U.S. forces against al-Qaida in Iraq in a northern city on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said.
In the Iraqi capital, a parked ca..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf plans to stand down as army chief by 15 November, an official from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) says.
Gen Musharraf will resign from the powerful post after the presidential elections, said Mushahid Huss..
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FOX News
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Britain's new security chief warned the battle against terrorism could take up to 15 years, while Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in an interview broadcast Sunday he wanted an expanded European system to share information on potential threats.
"I want..
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Washington Post
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We're taking fire!" Chief Warrant Officer 2 Steven Cianfrini, 27, yelled to his co-pilot as he looked out the helicopter door and saw tracer rounds flying his way.
It was the first ominous sign Monday morning as their OH-58D Kiowa attack helicopter ban..
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USA Today
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The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor said Monday the remaining fugitive leaders from the Bosnian war are currently within Serbia's reach, and failure to apprehend them is "a permanent stain" on the tribunal.
In her final report to the U.N. Security Cou..
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FOX News
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In a dawn strike Friday, unidentified gunmen attacked the house of the police chief in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, killing his wife, two brothers and 11 guards, Diyala provincial police reported.
The attackers also abducted two sons and two daughter..
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SF Gate
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Kabul on Sunday for his second visit to the Afghan capital since becoming the Pentagon chief, saying that although he believes progress is being made in the country, he wants to ensure there is no slackening of ef..
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Al Jazeera
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Mohammad Ayob Salangi, the provincial police chief, said the bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body as an armoured vehicle from the US firm Dyncorp slowed down at a speed bump in Kunduz city.
Taliban claim
The Taliban claimed responsibi..
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Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera's correspondent in Afghanistan, James Bays, said the attack was the Taliban's revenge for the killing of commander Mullah Dadullah earlier this week.Security firm
Earlier, two bombs tore through the Kandahar about 30 minutes apart, killing..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Chief government advisers accepted as "robust" research that put the death toll from the Iraq war 10 times higher than any previous estimate, new documents have revealed.
The study, by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, prompted worldwide alarm..
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