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    Body of second missing U.S. sailor is found in Afghanistan

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    Washington Post

    KABUL -- A second U.S. sailor who disappeared in eastern Afghanistan last week has been found dead. The discovery Wednesday ended the urgent search that had begun Friday evening when two U.S. Navy service members drove away from...

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    How a boy's death brought a West Bank cinema back to life

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    A cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin will next week open for business for the first time in 23 years, following a remarkable chain of events that began with the death of a Palestinian boy.In 2005,...

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    Scores die as Pakistan monsoons trigger floods

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    BBC

    By Aleem Maqbool BBC News, IslamabadAt least 100 people have been killed in floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in north-west Pakistan. Rivers have burst their banks and entire villages of mudbrick houses have been destroyed. Dozens of...

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    Reports: Mexican drug lord killed or captured in raid

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    FOX News

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Several Mexican news organizations are reporting that a top drug cartel leader has been either been killed or arrested.The reports named Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel as the suspected trafficker targeted in a raid by soldiers...

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    Gruesome charges detailed against suspected Nazi

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    MSNBC

    The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect was involved in the entire process of killing Jews at the Belzec death camp: from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to throwing corpses into mass graves,...

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    In Afghanistan, success measured a step at a time

    USA Today

    The soldiers of Bravo Company walk past windowless, mud-walled homes and mosques as children go by carrying cans filled with water. Fat-tailed sheep roam the streets unescorted. Expressionless men in turbans and sandals walk past. Little girls in...

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    Russian forces foil plane hijack

    AlJazeera

    Russian special forces have foiled the attempted hijacking of an aircraft on a domestic flight from Mineralniye Vody, in the Caucasus region, to Moscow's Domodedovo airport. All 105 passengers were freed unhurt after special forces disguised as doctors...

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    Pentagon asks FBI to probe leak

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    AlJazeera

    The US defence department has asked the FBI to help investigate the leak of more than 90,000 classified military documents, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, said. Speaking at a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday, Gates called...

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    Russians may be more negative but less depressed than Americans

    USA Today

    Despite what many social observers have described as a generally dark and brooding take on life, a new report suggests that Russians are actually less likely than Americans to be depressed. In fact, researchers have uncovered indications that...

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    For Petraeus, rooting out Afghan corruption is a priority

    Washington Post

    KABUL -- Every day, Gen. David H. Petraeus meets with senior NATO officials at headquarters for a 7:30 a.m. update, and at nearly every session, he returns to an issue that has bedeviled the U.S. campaign for years:...

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