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Posted 03/15/2010 3:23 PM

Investigators seek motive in 3 slayings in Mexico , Aide: Karzai 'very angry' at Taliban boss' arrest , Analysis: Socialists try to keep dominance , Irish Catholic leader won't quit for abuse coverup , German diocese suspends convicted sex abuser … Click to Read More

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Posted 03/15/2010 3:29 PM

Investigators seek motive in 3 slayings in Mexico , Aide: Karzai 'very angry' at Taliban boss' arrest , Analysis: Socialists try to keep dominance , Irish Catholic leader won't quit for abuse coverup , German diocese suspends convicted sex abuser … Click to Read More

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Posted 03/15/2010 3:32 PM

Investigators seek motive in 3 slayings in Mexico , Aide: Karzai 'very angry' at Taliban boss' arrest , Analysis: Socialists try to keep dominance , Irish Catholic leader won't quit for abuse coverup , German diocese suspends convicted sex abuser … Click to Read More

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Posted 03/15/2010 3:32 PM

LONDON (AP) Unless David Beckham can mend it as well as he can bend it, soccer's now-limping glamour boy will miss this summer's World Cup a blow to tournament organizers, sponsors, TV viewers and average fans.

Beckham underwent surgery Monday for a "totally torn" left Achilles' tendon and is expected to be out of action for about six months, said Dr. Sakari Orava, who performed the operation. The 34-year-old midfielder was injured Sunday while playing for Italia… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/15/2010 3:21 PM

KABUL (AP) The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.

The detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar second in the Taliban only to one-eyed Mullah Mohammed Omar has raised new questions about whether the U.S. is willing to back peace discussions with leaders who harbored the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 attacks… Click to Read More

Tagged As: AS-Afghan-Talking-to-Taliban

Posted 03/15/2010 3:23 PM

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) The two families climbed into white SUVs and almost simultaneously left the children's birthday party put on by the U.S. consulate. One headed deeper into one of the world's most dangerous cities, the other toward a bridge to El Paso, one of America's safest.

Neither made it.

Gunmen chased down the two vehicles and opened fire in attacks that raised the chilling prospect that Mexico's cartels have dropped any reservati… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/15/2010 9:52 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) Britain's Prince Charles arrived in Poland on Monday with his wife, Camilla, to start a nine-day tour that will take them through central Europe.

Charles, wearing a dark suit, and Camilla, dressed in red and clutching a handbag, were welcomed in the afternoon in the courtyard of Poland's presidential palace by President Lech Kaczynski and the first lady, Maria Kaczynska.

The couples shook hands on a red carpet, posed for phot… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/15/2010 9:39 AM

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Somalia's government has signed an agreement with a powerful militia that offers high-level militants senior government positions in return for their military support during a long-planned offensive against an Islamist insurgency.

The agreement gives the Ahlu-sunah Wal-jamea militia five ministry posts as well as diplomatic posts and senior positions in the police and intelligence services.

The militia holds several towns… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/15/2010 9:22 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) A World Bank report says teachers and other public servants who don't show up for work are fueling "quiet corruption" throughout Africa that is disproportionately hurting the continent's poor.

The report says studies over the last decade found teachers across Africa fail to appear as often as 25 percent of the time. The report warns of the effect such absenteeism has on children.

Monday's report follows last month's report by… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/15/2010 9:13 AM

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Vietnam released one of its leading democracy activists from prison Monday after the dissident Catholic priest spent three years and suffered two strokes in solitary confinement, his lawyer and sister said.

Authorities released Father Nguyen Van Ly from a prison near Hanoi at 4 a.m. and drove him in an ambulance back to his hometown of Hue, his sister, Nguyen Thi Hieu, told The Associated Press.

"I'm very glad to see him out … Click to Read More

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