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House votes to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has narrowly approved a $106 billion bill to ensure financing for war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over the coming months ...

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NH soldier killed disarming bomb in Iraq »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News

SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Bright and hardworking like his immigrant parents, Edmond Lo's future grew even more promising when he was offered a full ...

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Nepal's Maoists grow angry amid fears for peace »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News

DASTRATPUR, Nepal (AP) — They pass their days on an old research farm now set behind a tall barbed-wire fence, a place of flimsy wooden buildings ...

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New US commander in Afghanistan meets Karzai »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News

KABUL (AP) — President Hamid Karzai met with the new incoming commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday and told him that ...

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Analysis: Reducing Afghan civilian deaths key goal »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The big goals of the new American general taking charge of the war in Afghanistan start with fixing a problem that bedeviled the ...

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Weapons makers look overseas as Pentagon cuts back »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign governments looking to kick the tires of fighter jets and cargo planes at this week's air show in Paris will likely ...

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Marines will come out of Iraq by spring 2010 »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News

WASHINGTON (AP) — All but a few dozen of the 16,000 Marines now in Iraq will be out by next spring, the Marine Corps commandant ...

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AP News in Brief »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News

Elderly man charged with murder left signed anti-Semitic screed in car outside Holocaust Museum

WASHINGTON (AP) — An 88-year-old white supremacist was charged with murder Thursday ...

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Marines to be out of Iraq in spring 2010 »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marine Corps commandant says that all but a few dozen of the 16,000 Marines now in Iraq will be out by ...

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US envoy visits Pakistan refugees »

Posted by: ap 6 months ago in News

SHAIKH SHAHZAD CAMP, Pakistan (AP) — Top U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke brought promises of more American aid to sweltering camps where some of the 3 ...

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Court upholds Navy cancellation of A-12 aircraft »

Posted by: ap 6 months ago in Business & Finance

WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing Co. and General Dynamics Corp. must pay the government $2.8 billion to settle a nearly two-decade dispute over the cancellation of ...

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APNEWSBREAK: US military tweets »

Posted by: ap 6 months ago in News

KABUL (AP) — The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new ...

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Army closing some special care units »

Posted by: ap 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Army plans to reduce the size of some of its 36 wounded warrior units by the end of the month and ...

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Ex-Ga. Gov. Barnes announces gubernatorial bid »

Posted by: ap 6 months ago in News

ATLANTA (AP) — Former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes is asking voters to give him his old job back.

Barnes made the announcement Wednesday. The Democrat pledged ...

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Official: New signs of NKorea missile preparations »

Posted by: ap 6 months ago in News

PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — Spy satellites have spotted signs that North Korea may be preparing to transport another long-range missile to a test launch site, South ...

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