Stunning Saudi car ride celebrated 18 years later (AP)

AP – In an ornate living room, a group of women gathered around coffee and date cakes to celebrate the afternoon 18 years ago when they got into cars and drove the streets of Riyadh, a stunning defiance of Saudi Arabia’s ban on female driving.
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AP – Israeli aircraft Friday fired missiles at a target in the northern Gaza Strip and Palestinian militants sent a rocket barrage flying at an Israeli town, the military said.
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AFP – Traditional landowners at a US missile base in the Marshall Islands stand to lose nearly 21 million dollars if a stalemate over a new lease is not broken by December 17.
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The Christian Science Monitor – Gen. Laurent Nkunda, the man laying siege to the eastern Congolese city of Goma, is full of contradictions. He’s a successful military commander, almost unbeatable on the battlefield, but he has almost no political future. He’s an ordained Adventist preacher, who court-martials soldiers who engage in rape; yet his military [...]

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AP – No students showed up at Mirwais Mena girls’ school in the Taliban’s spiritual birthplace the morning after it happened.
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AFP – A missile strike by a suspected US drone killed at least 10 Islamist militants in a Pakistani tribal region known as a hub of Al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels, security officials said Friday.
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AP – Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed at least nine people in a village near the Afghan border.
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AFP – Camps that shelter tens of thousands of Darfuris made homeless by the brutal conflict in western Sudan are seething dens of frustration that aid workers fear will breed long-term insecurity.
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