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Three additional U.S. soldiers based in Washington state are facing charges in the deaths of three Afghan civilians between January and May and have been placed in pre-trial confinement, the Army announced Wednesday.
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A human rights group issued a new report detailing the widespread practice of female circumcisions in Iraqi Kurdistan, calling on Kurdish authorities to outlaw it.
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Iran is starting design work on a new nuclear reactor, the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization said Wednesday, according to Iranian media. FULL STORY | U.S. ADDS TO SANCTIONS
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More than 100 security guards have been protesting outside some of the World Cup stadiums this week in South Africa, calling on soccer's world governing body FIFA to upgrade their pay.
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Gunmen believed to be from a radical Islamist group shot two people dead and detained 10 others when raiding a house where people were watching a World Cup match Saturday night, according to eyewitnesses.
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A man has taken a number of people hostage in a clothing store in central Leipzig in eastern Germany, a police spokesman said.
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A 52-year-old American citizen who said he was searching for Osama bin Laden was detained in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan this week, Pakistani police said Tuesday.
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Ten Mexican federal police were killed in an ambush on a convoy Monday, the government said. An undisclosed number of criminals also were killed, the government's Information Ministry said.
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Civilian and military members of a South Korean investigative panel met with the U.N. Security Council on Monday to discuss the March sinking of a South Korean naval ship and called on the U.N. body to "take timely and appropriate measures" against Pyongyang for its role in the alleged attack.
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Three out of four Irish adults say the country's top churchman, Cardinal Sean Brady, should resign for his role in hiding abuse of children by one of the country's most notoriously abusive priests decades ago, according to a poll published by the Irish Times Monday.
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Oxfam, a U.K.-based International Aid agency, is calling on EU officials and the Middle East Quartet to pressure Israel into lifting the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
