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(AP) Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, NATO said Sunday.Two servicemen died in bombings Sunday in southern Afghanistan, while two others were killed in a bomb attack in the south on Saturday and three in fighting in the east the same day, ...

Floods inundate large Pakistan town

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(AP) Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan on Sunday, spreading further destruction in an area where hundreds of thousands of people who fled to higher ground are in dire need of food and water.Almost all of Sujawal's 250,000 residents fled from the town before the water rushed in, but ...

Middle East

Influential Israeli rabbi says Abbas should perish

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(AP) An influential Israeli rabbi known for his vitriolic pronouncements against Arabs says Palestinians and their leader should "perish from this world."Israel Army Radio quoted Ovadia Yosef Sunday as saying the Palestinians were "evil, bitter enemies of Israel" and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas should be struck with a plague. He made ...

Thousands rally for release of Israeli soldier

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(AP) Thousands of people rallied outside the Israeli prime minister's residence Saturday, demanding he conclude a deal to secure the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants more than four years ago.The show of support for Staff Sgt. Gilad Schalit, who was seized by Hamas-allied militants inside Israel in ...

Iraq goes on highest alert for terror attacks

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(AP) Iraq's prime minister put his nation on its highest level of alert for terror attacks, warning of plots to sow fear and chaos as the U.S. combat mission in the country formally ends on Tuesday.The Iraqi security forces who will be left in charge have been hammered by bomb attacks, ...

As US military bases close, Iraqis left behind

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(AP) Just about every man from the village of al-Faris has worked at the nearby Taji military base. The American money and influence is seen in the new cars, the additions to houses, even the billiards hall with a guitar from an American soldier.But now, as the American military winds down ...

Israel PM wants regular meetings with Palestinians

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(AP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas every two weeks once direct peace talks resume next week, Israeli officials said Saturday.Netanyahu will propose the biweekly meetings with the Palestinian leader when the U.S.-brokered negotiations formally resume on Thursday in Washington after a nearly two-year ...

Egyptian police find weapons bound for Gaza

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(AP) An Egyptian security official says police in the Sinai desert have discovered two large caches of weapons that were to be smuggled to Gaza.The find included anti-aircraft weaponry, the official said, but he did not know what type.Egypt has tried to stop smuggling through tunnels under its border with Gaza, ...

Lebanon arrests 4 after deadly Beirut shootout

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(AP) Lebanese authorities have arrested four suspects in this week's deadly Beirut street battle between the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group and a small Sunni group.The suspects are accused of attacking and setting fire to a Sunni mosque during Tuesday's hours-long clash, which killed three people, including two Hezbollah members. It was ...

US: $1.9M in computers for kids missing in Iraq

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(AP) The U.S. military is demanding to know what happened to $1.9 million worth of computers purchased by American taxpayers and intended for Iraqi schoolchildren that have instead been auctioned off by Iraqi officials for less than $50,000, the military said Friday.The U.S. press release was a rare public admission by ...

Iraq on highest alert for terror attacks

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Moderate quake kills 3 in Iran's remote northeast

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(AP) Iranian state TV is reporting that three people died in the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that shook the country's remote northeast overnight. Forty others were injured.The quake struck at 11:53 p.m. local time (1923GMT) on Saturday in Semnan province.The report says two children and a woman died and that the toll ...

Moderate quake hits remote area in northeast Iran

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(AP) Iranian state TV says a magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook a remote area in northeastern Iran.The report says the quake struck at 11:53 p.m. local time on Saturday (19:23 GMT), about 190 miles (300 kilometers) outside the town of Damghan in Semnan province.The TV says one villager was injured and 15 ...

Iran sentences opposition leader's aide to 5 years

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(AP) An Iranian reformist website says a top aide to the country's opposition leader has been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.Friday's report by Kaleme website didn't specify the charges against Qorban Behzadiannejad, who was the campaign manager for Mir Hossein Mousavi in June 2009 presidential election.The report says ...

Looking at lessons that can be learned from Iraq

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(AP) They are different wars in different regions, with different challenges. But as the war in Iraq winds down, there is a lot the U.S. military can learn and apply to Afghanistan, from how to deal with contractors to when to draw down troops.Many practices will need to be adapted to ...