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U.S. Army gunman's act "impossible": grandfather

Reuters US Online Report Top News 6 hours ago

AL-BIREH, West Bank (Reuters) - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act. ...

Fox NFL pregame show to be aired from Afghanistan

AP News 7 hours ago

Fox NFL pregame show to be broadcast from military installation in Afghanistan The Fox NFL pregame show will be broadcast from a military installation in Afghanistan on Sunday. The six-man announcing team traveled to an undisclosed location in the country this week ...

AFGHAN AIRSTRIKE

AP News 9 hours ago

Map locates Badghis province, Afghanistan, where a NATO airstrike mistakenly hit coalition troops Copyright 2009 AP News

UK foreign secretary: Obama critics miss the point

AP News 9 hours ago

UK foreign secretary chides Obama's critics, says US leader has right approach to world's woes British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Saturday accused critics of U.S. President Barack Obama of foolishly expecting him to fix the world's woes single-handedly. In a speech ...

Kabul slams criticism of Karzai as 'disrespectful'

AFP South Asian Edition 10 hours ago

Afghanistan rejected criticism of President Hamid Karzai by foreign leaders and the senior UN official in the country, accusing them of disrespecting the country's sovereignty. Kai Eide, the UN's special representative to Afghanistan, was among those who this week warned Karzai that ...

Afghanistan rejects UN, foreign criticism of Karzai

AFP South Asian Edition 10 hours ago

Afghanistan rejected criticism of President Hamid Karzai by foreign leaders and the senior UN official in the country, accusing them of disrespecting the country's sovereignty. Kai Eide, the UN's special representative to Afghanistan, was among those who this week warned Karzai that ...

Afghanistan

AP News 11 hours ago

SFC Korey Staley, right, a U.S. soldier from Atlantic, Iowa and the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division takes an over watch position on a mountain top as the sun rises in the Pech Valley of ...

APTOPIX Afghanistan

AP News 11 hours ago

U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division take an overwatch position on a mountain top in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) Copyright 2009 AP ...

'7 Afghan security forces die in NATO airstrike'

AFP South Asian Edition 12 hours ago

Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a NATO air strike in remote western Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Saturday. The statement comes as NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was investigating an incident in Badghis ...

5 US troops among wounded in Afghan search: NATO

AFP South Asian Edition 12 hours ago

A search for two US soldiers missing in northwest Afghanistan continued Saturday after 25 soldiers were wounded in what one Western official said may have been a friendly-fire incident during the hunt. Five of the wounded were American soldiers, a spokesman for ...

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