Afghan woman killed, apparently for bearing girl
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It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in the past few months....
January 30, 2012 - 09:47:00 Z
Bill Gates pledges $750 million to AIDS fight
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Bill Gates pledged $750 million on Thursday to fight three killer diseases and rescue a beleaguered health fund whose financial losses have cost it donor support....
January 26, 2012 - 10:43:31 Z
Navy Seals rescue Somali pirate hostages
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U.S. Navy SEALs parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Soon, nine kidnappers were dead and both hostages were freed....
January 25, 2012 - 13:20:59 Z
Joran Van der Sloot sentenced to 28 years in Peruvian prison
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The decision comes two days after the young Dutchman pleaded guilty to killing Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old business student....
January 13, 2012 - 14:54:41 Z
Defense Sec. condemns video of Marines urinating on dead
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is branding as "utterly despicable" a video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters....
January 12, 2012 - 09:28:27 Z
Xbox workers threaten suicide in China labor tiff
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Dozens of workers assembling Microsoft Xbox video game consoles climbed to a factory dormitory roof, and some threatened to jump to their deaths....
January 12, 2012 - 08:55:05 Z
American sentenced to death in Iran
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Iran charges that as a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, received special training and served at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged intelligence mission....
January 9, 2012 - 09:42:36 Z
Wave of bombings across Baghdad kills 69
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A wave of at least 14 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday morning, killing at least 60 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months. The apparently coordinated attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country....
December 22, 2011 - 13:48:24 Z
Another bombing strikes Baghdad, pushes death toll to 65
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A wave of at least 14 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday morning, killing at least 60 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months. The apparently coordinated attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country....
December 22, 2011 - 11:35:05 Z
Wave of bombings across Iraqi capital kills 60
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A wave of at least 14 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday morning, killing at least 60 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months. The apparently coordinated attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country....
December 22, 2011 - 08:10:44 Z
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