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Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers

Afghan children run as a NATO helicopter takes off with a container in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. More than 25 ISAF and Afghan National Security Force personnel were killed or wounded during a joint operation that involved multiple engagements over several hours Nov. 6, 2009 in Western Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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KABUL - NATO and Afghan authorities were investigating Saturday whether an airstrike during the intensive search for two missing U.S. paratroopers mistakenly killed eight Afghans and wounded more than 20 Afghan and American forces.

Middle East News

  • Saudi Arabian Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabeeah, right, is administered a swine flu vaccine during the launch of a swine flu vaccine campaign in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Saudi Arabia's health minister said Saturday the kingdom will not ban anyone considered high risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
    Saudi says swine flu shots advised for pilgrims AP - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not ban anyone considered high risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year.

  • Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev speaks with German journalists at the Gorki residence outside Moscow, November 7, 2009. Sanctions against Iran should not be ruled out if it fails to agree to restrictions on its nuclear programme, Medvedev told German weekly magazine Der Spiegel in an interview. REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev (RUSSIA POLITICS)
    Iran: 109 detained at opposition rally AP - Sat Nov 7, 7:24 AM ET

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian police have detained 109 people for "disturbing public order" during an opposition rally this week, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.

  • Rival Lebanon factions agree on unity government AP - Sat Nov 7, 7:00 AM ET

    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.

Europe News

  • A handout picture obtained from the Metropolitan Police press office in June shows murdered French student Laurent Bonomo. The parents of two French students brutally killed in London are demanding compensation from the British government for mistakes that could have prevented the murders, their lawyer has said.(AFP/METROPOLITAN POLICE/File/HO)
    Murdered French students' parents claim against UK AFP - 18 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - The parents of two French students brutally killed in London are demanding compensation from the British government for mistakes that could have prevented the murders, their lawyer said on Saturday.

  • UK foreign secretary: Obama critics miss the point AP - 32 minutes ago

    LONDON - 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.

  • Sri Lankan refugees displaced during the final stages of the fighting, prepare to climb aboard state-buses, which will take them to their native homes in the island's northern district of Mannar in October. A top French envoy has asked Sri Lanka to end its state of emergency and probe war crimes ahead of a key European Union ruling on trade concessions to the troubled island.(AFP/File/Ishara S.Kodikara)
    France asks Sri Lanka to end emergency laws AFP - 38 minutes ago

    COLOMBO (AFP) - A top French envoy on Saturday asked Sri Lanka to end its state of emergency and probe war crimes ahead of a key European Union ruling on trade concessions to the troubled island.

Latin America

  • Nelson Faria Marinho shows a picture of his son Nelson Marinho, who lost his life in the Air France flight 447 accident, before a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Hundreds of relatives from around the world have gathered Saturday in a park high above a Rio de Janeiro beach for the private ceremony. The cause of the June 1 crash off Brazil's northeastern coast is not known. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
    AF crash memorial in Brazil amid criticism AP - 9 minutes ago

    RIO DE JANEIRO - Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide them with the answers or compensation they were promised.

  • In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009, children line up before the start of their classes in Nuevo Kanam, in the Peruvian state of Amazonas. Throughout Latin America, native languages are disappearing and Indians are under intense pressure to speak Spanish. At the same time, Indians have little access to post-secondary education. They are ill-prepared by substandard schools, afflicted by high dropout rates and usually short on financial help. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)
    Fighting the odds to keep Indian tongues alive AP - 42 minutes ago

    HUAMPAMI, Peru - In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class.

  • Guard arrested for torture in Tijuana prison riots AP - 2 hours, 45 minutes ago

    TIJUANA, Mexico - Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.

Africa News

  • Madagascar political rivals reach government deal AP - 5 minutes ago

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections following a power struggle that brought months of volatility to the country, an African Union statement said.

  • Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao -- pictured giving a speech at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo -- has sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)
    China PM reaches out to Muslims in Cairo speech AFP - 20 minutes ago

    CAIRO (AFP) - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiaobao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority.

  • In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, a giraffe from Africa's most endangered giraffe subspecies stands in the bush near Koure, Niger. By all accounts, they should be extinct. Instead, their numbers have quadrupled to 200 since 1996, an unlikely boon experts credit to the concurrence of an impoverished government keen for revenue that has enacted laws to protected them, a conservation program that encourages people to support them, and a rare harmony with humans who have accepted their presence. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
    West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback AP - 47 minutes ago

    KOURE, Niger - A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.

Asia News

  • China PM reaches out to Muslims in Cairo speech AFP - 20 minutes ago

    CAIRO (AFP) - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiaobao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority.

  • Afghan children run as a NATO helicopter takes off with a container in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. More than 25 ISAF and Afghan National Security Force personnel were killed or wounded during a joint operation that involved multiple engagements over several hours Nov. 6, 2009 in Western Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
    Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers AP - 26 minutes ago

    KABUL - NATO and Afghan authorities were investigating Saturday whether an airstrike during the intensive search for two missing U.S. paratroopers mistakenly killed eight Afghans and wounded more than 20 Afghan and American forces.

  • France asks Sri Lanka to end emergency laws AFP - 38 minutes ago

    COLOMBO (AFP) - A top French envoy on Saturday asked Sri Lanka to end its state of emergency and probe war crimes ahead of a key European Union ruling on trade concessions to the troubled island.

Canada

  • Canada October job losses reverse positive trend Reuters - Fri Nov 6, 11:28 AM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada lost more jobs in October than even the gloomiest analyst had predicted, dashing hopes for a quick economic rebound and suggesting a recovery in the labor market may have gotten off to a false start.

  • Toronto wins vote to host 2015 Pan American Games Reuters - Fri Nov 6, 6:21 PM ET

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games on Friday by beating Bogota, Colombia and Lima, Peru on the first ballot in a vote in Guadalajara, Mexico.

  • Canada to host G8 foreign ministers in Quebec city Reuters - Fri Nov 6, 3:31 PM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will host a meeting of G8 foreign ministers in March 2010 in the French-speaking province of Quebec, laying the groundwork for a leaders' summit in June of next year.

Australia/Antarctica News

  • A woman with a child in a pusher is seen struggling in rain and wind as she walks through Sydney centre, a few days ago. Australian authorities have declared a natural disaster along parts of the country's east coast as heavy floods cut the main road linking major cities, stranding thousands of people.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
    Disaster declared in flood-hit Australia AFP - Sat Nov 7, 12:04 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian authorities declared a natural disaster along parts of the country's east coast as heavy floods cut the main road linking major cities, stranding thousands of people.

  • Sri Lankan asylum seekers stand on the lower deck of the Australian Customs and Immigration Fisheries Patrol vessel anchored off Indonesia's Riau Island of Tanjung Pinang, in October 2009. The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)
    Indonesia extends Australia refugee boat's stay AFP - Fri Nov 6, 1:28 AM ET

    JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia extended by a week on Friday a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.

  • An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard, seen here in 2007, during a debate at Cambridge University.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
    Shoe thrown at former Australian PM in Cambridge AFP - Thu Nov 5, 6:52 AM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard during a debate at Cambridge University, the quick-thinking student who caught the shoe said on Thursday.

Most Popular World News

  • Miss England gives up crown after fracas reports AP - Fri Nov 6, 9:26 AM ET

    LONDON - The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.

  • Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor identified by authorities as the suspect in a mass shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from a pdf file of the U.S. Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences downloaded on November 6, 2009. Investigators searched for the motive on Friday behind the mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which the Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people. Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States of immigrant parents, was shot four times by police, a base spokesman said. He was unconscious but in stable condition. REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout (UNITED STATES MILITARY CRIME LAW HEADSHOT CONFLICT) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
    Shooting reveals tensions over Muslims in the military McClatchy Newspapers - Fri Nov 6, 8:59 PM ET

    WASHINGTON — The killings of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, by an Army psychiatrist who also was a Muslim set off a rancorous debate Friday that once again spotlighted the fear among Muslims in America that they'll be collectively found guilty for the actions of one man.

  • This photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, and released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office shows Iranian student Mahmoud Vahidnia speaking in a meeting with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, unseen, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
    Student stuns Iran by criticizing supreme leader AP - Thu Nov 5, 5:41 PM ET

    BEIRUT - An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face.