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Pakistan army says 15 militants killed in operation in northwest
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Security forces have killed 15 militants and detained 60 others, the army said Sunday, in the first major action against insurgents under Pakistan's new government. Army spoke...
NATO accidentally kills 4 Afghan civilians; foreign forces also kill 9 police
KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO said Sunday that its forces accidentally killed at least four civilians in eastern Afghanistan, while an official in the nation's west said foreign troops used air strikes on...
Pakistan's army says 15 militants killed in operation in northwest
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's army says it has killed 15 militants and detained 60 others in a five-day military operation in the country's troubled northwest. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abb...
Peru declares state of emergency as toxic materials threaten Lima water
LIMA, Peru - Peru's government has declared a state of emergency at a Canadian-owned mine east of Lima, fearing toxic materials there could spill into the capital city's main water source. Presiden...
Memorial service held for former Edmonton resident killed in North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. - The family and friends of a former Edmonton resident slain in North Carolina held a public memorial service Saturday to mourn the 34-year-old woman whose body was found Monday near her...
Rapper DMX arrested at Phoenix mall on felony charge of ID theft
PHOENIX - Rapper DMX has been arrested at a Phoenix mall on a felony charge of taking the identity of another. Phoenix police didn't have details of the charge, as it stemmed from a Maricopa County...
Inmate loses weight and manages to escape through jail's air vent
HEMPSTEAD, Texas - A man charged with murder has escaped from a Texas jail by climbing through an air conditioner vent. The vent was less than 30 centimetres wide, and authorities said Darryl Layne...
Woman in Pennsylvania baby mystery partially eviscerated
PITTSBURGH - Investigators on Saturday were trying to identify the body of a woman found bound with duct tape with her uterus cut open in the apartment of another woman who falsely claimed a newborn b...
Pope urges young people to spurn the spiritual desert of modern society
SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict has urged young people to reject the "spiritual desert" that he says is spreading throughout the world. Benedict said at a mass Sunday before more than 200,000 you...
Canadian soldier James Hayward Arnal killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was killed by a roadside explosion, the military announced on a violent day that also saw a suicide bomber blow himself up just outside the gate of the main ...
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