Reuters:
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO forces mistakenly killed seven Afghan soldiers and police in an air strike during a battle while searching for two missing American soldiers in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
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feeds.latimes.com:
A 20-year-old man shot and killed his teenage girlfriend Friday night during a domestic dispute in Lincoln Heights before turning the gun on himself, police said The shooting was reported about 8:30 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 2400 block of Daly Street. Police officers of LAPD's Hollenbeck Division found a teenage g (Read More)
Reuters:
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wall Street firms are in a quandary about getting involved with a planned public offering of Russian aluminum producer UC RUSAL because its founder has been barred from getting a U.S. visa on account of allegations that he is connected to organized crime, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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Reuters:
MADRID (Reuters) -The French film "Un Prophete" (A Prophet) has been nominated for six European Film awards, including best film and best director, the European Film Academy announced on Saturday at the Seville Europe Film Festival.
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Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is wrapping up deliberations on war strategy in Afghanistan and is considering final Pentagon options that include sending about 30,000 more troops, officials said on Saturday.
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Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Britain pressed the G20 on Saturday to come up with a plan to make banks pay for any future bailouts but one idea of imposing a global financial transactions tax was immediately shot down by the United States.
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GretaWire:
President Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe goes ON THE RECORD at 10pm Monday night.
We had hoped to show you our interview on Thursday night ( I went to Philly Thursday to do the interview and then we had breaking news -- the shooting at Fort Hood -- that bumped the interview until Monday night.) [...]
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Fox News:
Pentagon official says Obama's Afghan strategy will be announced within the next 'couple or maybe a few weeks' • Afghanistan: Corruption Advice Is Out of Line • 11 Militants Killed in Pakistan Taliban Strongholds. (Read More)
CNN:
NATO forces in Afghanistan are investigating a report that an airstrike killed Afghan security forces in a region rife with arms smuggling and narcotics trafficking.
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CNN:
NATO forces in Afghanistan are investigating a report that an airstrike killed Afghan security forces in a region rife with arms smuggling and narcotics trafficking. (Read More)
Fox News:
State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user. (Read More)
Reuters:
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
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Los Angeles Times - Opinion:
As the shootings in Ft. Hood, Texas, and Orlando show, violence is always with us. In a 2005 speech at Ft. Bragg, N.C., President George W. Bush laid out his latest justification for the war in Iraq: "There is only one course of action ag (Read More)
Reuters:
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state-owned firms will pay a smaller cumulative dividend to the central government this year because their profits have fallen, the Economic Observer reported on Saturday.
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