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Bombs at mosques in northwest Pakistan kill 15, underlining challenge for new government
Associated PressPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Bombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 15 people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government set to take power under the leadership...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iran
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Women can't be president in Iran, senior cleric says
TEHRAN — Iran’s next president will not be a woman. No surprise there, but a senior religious figure, Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, made it official in comments Wednesday to a group of clerics and theology students, according to the conservative...
Tags: Elections, Religion and Belief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Saudi Arabia, Iran
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Six Americans among at least 15 killed in Afghanistan bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S.-military contractor DynCorp International says four American employees were killed in a suicide car bombing Thursday in the Afghan capital, Kabul, bringing the number of Americans slain to six. Nine Afghan civilians were...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Transportation Accidents, Taliban, Motorvehicle Accidents, Bombings
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Grand Canyon wildlife event to honor memory of park biologist
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. -- Eric York was obsessed with the big cats -- their health, temperaments and survival rates amid the park’s annual tourist invasion. For years, he wandered the area’s crags, gullies and woods, tracking and tagging the...
Tags: Pneumonic Plague, Human Interest, Epidemics and Plagues, Science and Technology, Flu
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Afghan woman recounts how US soldier killed her husband in rampage; case set for court-martial
Associated PressKANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family...Tags: Robert Bales, Armed Conflicts, Courts-Martial, Military Justice, Crime, Law and Justice
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dismemberment, ABC (tv network), Values
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Afghan militants threaten more attacks after deadly bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan — A militant group said its attack Thursday on a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital marked a stepped-up campaign against the foreign presence in Afghanistan, and promised more such assaults. The suicide bombing killed six...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Motorvehicle Accidents, Bombings, Suicide, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, U.S. officials say
WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....
Tags: White House, Al-Qaeda, Crime, Law and Justice, Saudi Arabia, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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BC-AP Limited Digest
Member Choice Limited For editorial or technical questions concerning AP Member Choice Limited, contact customersupport(at)ap.org or call 877-836-9477. TOP STORIES IRS-POLITICAL GROUPS WASHINGTON — Don't look for the outcry over the Internal...Tags: Arts and Culture, Google Inc., Steven Spielberg, Movies, Diabetes
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Allegations of vote rigging affect outcome of 8 national assembly seats in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it will conduct a recount or re-do the vote for eight national assembly seats following allegations of vote rigging in the recent election. Pakistan election commission official Khurshid Alam said Thursday there are...Tags: Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Politics
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Editorial: Pakistan's fragile democracy shows new strength
There is good news from Pakistan. No, really. The country often referred to as "the most dangerous place on earth" is a caldron of violence, religious extremism and nuclear danger. But on Saturday, Pakistan passed a major democratic milestone. Its...
Tags: Political Corruption, Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Religion and Belief
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Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....
Tags: Elections, Armed Conflicts, Nawaz Sharif, Parliament, Asif Ali Zardari
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