Canadian accused of buying weapons for al-Qaeda freed

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• Abdullah Khadr, 29, had been in jail since 2005, when he was arrested in Canada at US officials' request.Mr Khadr is the elder brother of Omar Khadr, the only Westerner held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [..]

Polish intel had warned ahead of Kabul Indian embassy attack

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• A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the heavily fortified Indian embassy gates in Kabul on July 7, 2008, killing 58 people and wounding more than 140. [..]

Russian revolution: black man elected to office

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• In a country where racism is entrenched and often violent, Sagbo's election as one of Novozavidovo's 10 municipal councilors is a milestone. But among the town's 10,000 people, the 48-year-old from the West African country of Benin is viewed simply a Russian who cares about his hometown. [..]

Leaks provide ground-level account of Afghan war

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• Some 90,000 leaked US military records amount to an blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban [..]

Soldier charged over leaked video of Iraq attack

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• Army Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, was charged with two criminal counts including allegations he disclosed classified national defence information, exceeded his authorised access to US computers and transferred classified data onto his personal computer, the military said in a statement. [..]

U.S. missile strike kills 6 militants in Pakistan

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• PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 29, 2010:Suspected U.S. missiles hit a house Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border where the army has been battling Taliban fighters.Six suspected militants have been killed by missiles fired by a US drone in Pakistan's tribal belt. The missiles targeted a house in [..]

Gen Petraeus to head NATO forces in Afghanistan

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• In an extraordinary turn of events, Obama called General Stanley McChrystal on the carpet at the White House, relieved him of command and replaced him with his boss, General David Petraeus, architect of the Iraq war turnaround. [..]

US embassy seeks access to arrested Osama-hunter

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• A pistol, a dagger, night vision goggles, some hashish and Christian literature were found in his possession. Police said he was trying to sneak into Nuristan province of Afghanistan to hunt and kill Osama Bin Laden. [..]

Dozens killed at Afghan wedding party

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• "A suicide bomber went inside the party where hundreds of people were sitting and blew himself up," a police official said of the blast at around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Arghandab district, north of Kandahar, where foreign troops are focusing on a push in coming months to whittle out the Taliban. [..]

Afghan militants attack government buildings

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• Militants armed with guns and suicide vests have stormed government buildings in the south-western Afghan city of Nimroz, officials say. [..]