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- Afghan mission suffers setbacks
- International banking agency cuts off Iran
- Pro-regime Syrians rally on anniversary
- IMF approves $36.56 billion funding for Greece
- Norway military plane feared crashed with five aboard
- Egypt charges top police officers over soccer riot
- Cuba dissidents vow to stay in church
- Afghan war increasingly resembles the Iraq war
- UK police arrest Rebekah Brooks in hacking probe
- One killed, 74 injured during Iran fire festival
| Afghan mission suffers setbacks Posted: 15 Mar 2012 05:07 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- The American campaign in Afghanistan suffered a double blow Thursday: The Taliban broke off talks with the U.S., and President Hamid Karzai said NATO should pull out of rural areas and speed up the transfer of security respons ... |
| International banking agency cuts off Iran Posted: 15 Mar 2012 05:18 PM PDT BRUSSELS -- Iran was largely cut off from global commerce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks -- part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nucl ... |
| Pro-regime Syrians rally on anniversary Posted: 15 Mar 2012 05:18 PM PDT BEIRUT -- Tens of thousands of government loyalists poured into the streets of the Syrian capital and other cities Thursday in an orchestrated show of support for the regime as the military tightened its grip on rebellious areas for the one-year anni ... |
| IMF approves $36.56 billion funding for Greece Posted: 16 Mar 2012 02:19 AM PDT ATHENS, Greece -- The International Monetary Fund on Thursday approved (euro) 28 billion ($36.56 billion) in funding for crisis-hit Greece over the next four years, while Standard and Poor's warned that the country's new bonds remained vulnerable to ... |
| Norway military plane feared crashed with five aboard Posted: 16 Mar 2012 02:16 AM PDT OSLO, Norway -- A Norwegian military transport plane with five people aboard went missing Thursday during an exercise and was feared to have crashed in bad weather in a mountainous area in northern Sweden, officials said.The C-130 was heading from Ev ... |
| Egypt charges top police officers over soccer riot Posted: 16 Mar 2012 02:13 AM PDT CAIRO -- Egypt's top prosecutor charged nine senior police officers Thursday with assisting a murderous mob of soccer fans who killed 74 rival supporters last month after a match in the Mediterranean city of Port Said.Many Egyptians accuse police of ... |
| Cuba dissidents vow to stay in church Posted: 16 Mar 2012 02:12 AM PDT HAVANA -- A group of 13 Cuban dissidents who have occupied a Havana church for two days are no longer demanding an audience with Pope Benedict XVI when he visits this month, but vowed Thursday to continue their protest.The dissidents say they are now ... |
| Afghan war increasingly resembles the Iraq war Posted: 15 Mar 2012 05:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Afghanistan is not Iraq, U.S. officials have been fond of saying from the first days of Barack Obama's presidency. The difference, they said, was that one war Obama inherited, in Afghanistan, was worth fighting while the other, in Ir ... |
| UK police arrest Rebekah Brooks in hacking probe Posted: 15 Mar 2012 05:19 AM PDT LONDON -- Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband Charlie were arrested in dawn raids that also netted four other suspects in the spreading phone hacking scandal. Police said the six people were arreste ... |
| One killed, 74 injured during Iran fire festival Posted: 15 Mar 2012 05:19 AM PDT TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency says the country's annual fire festival has cost the life of one person and injured 74 others. Every year thousands of Iranians celebrate "Chahar-Shanbe Suri," or Wednesday Fire Feast, by jumpin ... |
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