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Barack Obama, David Cameron stand by Afghanistan mission

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 05:18 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Determined to show momentum in a war marred by setbacks, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minster David Cameron said for the first time Wednesday that NATO forces would hand over the lead combat role to Afghanistan forces next ...

Bus crash kills 22 children, six adults in Switzerland

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 05:16 PM PDT


SION, Switzerland -- A tourist bus slammed head-on into a concrete wall in a Swiss Alps tunnel, killing 28 people, mostly children returning from a ski vacation. Swiss police said Wednesday the vehicle was not speeding and everyone was wearing seat ...

Mexican cartels turn to youths for drug trafficking

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 05:17 PM PDT


TIJUANA, Mexico -- Luis Alberto is only 14 but has the wizened gaze of a grown-up hardened by life. He never met his father, worked as a child, was hired by a gang to sell drugs and then got addicted to them.
In October he checked into Cirad, a re ...

U.S. moves unnamed suspect in Afghanistan shootings

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 05:17 PM PDT


KABUL, Afghanistan — The American soldier accused of shooting 16 Afghan villagers in a pre-dawn killing spree was flown out of Afghanistan on Wednesday to an undisclosed location, even as many Afghans called for him to face justice in their c ...

Strong quakes shake Japan, but no apparent damage

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT

TOKYO -- A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami.A magnitude-6.8 earthquake first struck the southern coast of ...

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