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UK police out in force as violence wanes

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT


LONDON — Britain’s cities were largely quiet early Thursday after days of rioting and looting that drew thousands of extra police officers onto the streets and a stern warning from Prime Minister David Cameron that order would be restor ...

Somali troops get U.S. training

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- On the front lines of Mogadishu's streets, Islamist militants battle African Union troops. Standing alongside the peacekeepers are members of an American-run team of advisers, former military men who play a little-known but key ...

Insurgents that downed helicopter killed in Afghan airstrike

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT


KABUL, Afghanistan -- An airstrike by international forces has killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for the downing of a U.S. helicopter this weekend in which 38 U.S. and Afghan troops died, including the militant who launched the fatal rocket ...

Muslims killed in Britain riots

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT


BIRMINGHAM, England -- With police nowhere to be seen, the Muslims of Dudley Road armed themselves with bricks and stones, clubs and cricket bats to fend off carloads of marauding gangs.
Their vigilante stand in Birmingham's west end saved a humbl ...

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