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Ministry: NATO airstrike kills Afghan soldiers

Ministry: NATO airstrike kills Afghan soldiers

KABUL -- Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said Saturday that a NATO airstrike in the western province of Badghis mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen. [Full Story]

  • Russia's Medvedev: Sanctions against Iran possible

    Russia's Medvedev: Sanctions against Iran possible

    MOSCOW -- Russia could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program, President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.


  • UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan

    UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan

    KABUL -- The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct. 28 attack that killed five of its workers, but it's still determining exactly how many.


  • Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached

    Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached

    MOSCOW -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that Moscow and Washington can sign a new nuclear arms control deal before year's end.


  • Pakistan: 12 militants killed in offensive

    Pakistan: 12 militants killed in offensive

    ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani soldiers killed 12 militants in gunbattles over the past day, officials said Saturday, as government forces pressed on with their offensive in the mountainous Taliban sanctuary of South Waziristan.


  • British PM calls for talks on finance levy

    British PM calls for talks on finance levy

    ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity to help insure the banking system from another crisis.


  • Rival Lebanon factions agree on unity government

    Rival Lebanon factions agree on unity government

    BEIRUT -- Lebanon's Syrian-backed factions finally agreed on a unity government proposed by their pro-Western rivals on Saturday, ending a four-month deadlock in the deeply divided country.


  • Uncle: Fort Hood suspect loved US

    Uncle: Fort Hood suspect loved US

    EL-BIREH, West Bank -- The Palestinian uncle of Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan says his nephew loved America and wanted to serve his country.


  • Iran lawmakers: No shipment of uranium abroad

    Iran lawmakers: No shipment of uranium abroad

    TEHRAN, Iran -- Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether.


  • US: More foreign troops certain in new Afghan plan

    US: More foreign troops certain in new Afghan plan

    BRUSSELS -- A top Pentagon official says President Barack Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan will be certain to include reinforcements of foreign troops.


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