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- Taliban sleeper agent kills 9
- Mexico massacre undermines efforts
- US sends cargo planes to help Mexico fight fires
- UN holding Ivory Coast strongman in northern town
- Syria leader vows to lift emergency law
- Gadhafi shells rebel-held Misrata
| Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- Like hundreds of thousands of Afghan men, he volunteered in the national army, ran drills in the mud, carried an automatic rifle, and worked alongside coalition mentors struggling against a hardcore insurgency.But he was not one ... |
| Mexico massacre undermines efforts Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT XONACATLAN, Mexico -- With only odd jobs to support a young wife and 2-year-old son in their concrete hut on a dirt road, Uriel Carvajal decided to seek work in the U.S., heading from central Mexico by bus to the northeastern border state of Tamaul ... |
| US sends cargo planes to help Mexico fight fires Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) -- Two specially equipped U.S. Air Force cargo planes left Colorado on Saturday to help battle wildfires in northern Mexico. The C-130s were requested by the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department, a U ... |
| UN holding Ivory Coast strongman in northern town Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Shooting erupted Saturday in a sprawling Abidjan neighborhood where fighters loyal to Ivory Coast's arrested strongman Laurent Gbagbo have sought refuge, residents of the area said. The shooting appeared to be between resid ... |
| Syria leader vows to lift emergency law Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT BEIRUT -- Bowing to pressure from a popular uprising, Syria's president promised Saturday to end nearly 50 years of emergency rule this coming week but coupled his concession with a stern warning -- that further unrest will be considered sabotage. ... |
| Gadhafi shells rebel-held Misrata Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT AJDABIYA, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi's forces poured rocket fire after dawn Saturday into Misrata, the only western city still in rebel hands, and weary residents who have endured more than a month of fighting angrily lashed out at NATO for failing t ... |
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