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- Afghan president's half brother killed
- Brazil credit card debt is sky-high
- East Africans hit hard with drought
- China shooting for the moon, planets
- Armed men abduct 2 Americans and their Filipino relative in southern Philippines
- Afghan president says his brother's assassination reflects the suffering of all Afghan people
- Officials: Gunmen blow up Egyptian pipeline
| Afghan president's half brother killed Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:57 AM PDT KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai's half brother, the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan and a lightning rod for criticism of corruption in the government, was assassinated Tuesday by a close associate. His death leaves a dange ... |
| Brazil credit card debt is sky-high Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT SAO PAULO -- Silas Xavier pulls credit card bills from a pocket on the door of the taxi he drives, more from the glove box and still more from a pouch behind his seat, waving them as his voice rises in frustration and desperation.Like many of the 40 ... |
| East Africans hit hard with drought Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT DADAAB, Kenya -- Faduma Sakow Abdullahi and her five children tried to escape starvation in Somalia by journeying to a Kenyan refugee camp. Only one day before they reached their destination, her 4-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son died of exhau ... |
| China shooting for the moon, planets Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT BEIJING -- This year, a rocket will carry a boxcar-sized module into orbit, the first building block for a Chinese space station. Around 2013, China plans to launch a lunar probe that will set a rover loose on the moon. It wants to put a man on the ... |
| Armed men abduct 2 Americans and their Filipino relative in southern Philippines Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:12 AM PDT MANILA, Philippines -- More than a dozen armed men abducted three people before dawn Tuesday, including a 50-year-old naturalized American woman and her 14-year-old son, from a southern Philippine island near a stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants ... |
| Afghan president says his brother's assassination reflects the suffering of all Afghan people Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:09 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his half brother's assassination reflects the suffering of all Afghan people. Karzai said Tuesday in a press conference that Ahmed Wali Karzai's death is a pain he shares with all Afghans. ... |
| Officials: Gunmen blow up Egyptian pipeline Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:04 PM PDT EL-ARISH, Egypt -- Security officials say masked gunmen have blown up a terminal of the Egyptian natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan.They said the predawn attack on Tuesday took place at the city of El-Arish in the northern part of Egypt's Sina ... |
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