AFP – A looming famine in Afghanistan poses a greater threat to international efforts to rebuild the country than the ongoing insurgency there, a leading defence think-tank warned Friday.
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AP – Ukraine’s battered currency rose Thursday, partly on hopes the country could secure a hefty International Monetary Fund loan to overcome a severe financial crisis.
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AP – A senior peacekeeping official urged the U.N. and world community Thursday to take advantage of the cease-fire in eastern Congo to quickly move the peace process forward, saying no military solution is possible.
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AP – Three upstate New York men convicted of aiding terrorism said Thursday their al-Qaida training included viewing a violent video allegedly created by a Guantanamo prisoner on trial as Osama bin Laden’s chief propagandist.
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AFP – Witnesses to the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man by London police who mistook him for a would-be suicide bomber said Thursday that officers did not shout a warning before killing him.
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AP – Iraq wants to eliminate any chance U.S. forces will stay here after 2011 under a proposed security pact and to expand Iraqi legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops until then, a close ally of the prime minister said Thursday.
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AP – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants Syria and Iran to support the transformation of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group from an armed militia to a political party, a U.N. envoy said Thursday.
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AP – The head of Britain’s most listened-to radio station resigned Thursday over a prank phone call made by two DJs to an elderly actor, the British Broadcasting Corp. said.
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Reuters – The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was found guilty by a U.S. court on Thursday of torture in the first prosecution under a 14-year-old law that allows citizens to be prosecuted for such crimes committed abroad.
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AP – Venezuela has denounced the United States for its recent deadly attack in Syria.
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