Dalai Lama calls special meeting of Tibetan exiles (AP)

AP – The Dalai Lama has called a special meeting of Tibetan exiles to discuss the future of their struggle as talks with China have foundered, officials said Tuesday.
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AP – Four police officers were killed Tuesday in a drive-by shooting in the turbulent northern city of Mosul and three civilians were killed in a separate Baghdad bombing, police said.
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AP – The deadly U.S. raid into Syria may complicate efforts to win approval for a new U.S.-Iraqi security deal by drawing attention to a fact many Iraqis detest — that they can’t control everything American forces might do.
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AFP – Australia’s Queensland Gas Co. on Tuesday endorsed a 2.1 billion pounds friendly takeover offer from joint venture partner BG Group.
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AP – Fourteen southern African nations will hold a summit to try to break a power-sharing stalemate in Zimbabwe between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition that has prevented the formation of a new government.
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AP – A cross-border raid by U.S. special forces killed the al-Qaida-linked head of a Syrian network that smuggled fighters, weapons and cash into Iraq, an American counterterrorism official said Monday. Blood stained the earth in this border village as anguished Syrians buried relatives they said were killed in the U.S. helicopter attack Sunday. Some [...]

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AP – Escaped rebel hostage Oscar Tulio Lizcano looked a crazy man — bearded, grimy, slumped on another man’s shoulder and screaming from across a jungle river.
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