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2 coalition service members missing in Afghanistan

NATO forces in Afghanistan say two international service members have been reported missing in the west of the country.
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Court to appoint lawyer for Bosnian Karadzic

The U.N. war-crimes tribunal ruled Thursday that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be appointed a lawyer to represent him whenever he fails to appear in court.
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Taliban chief: Cowards go to hell

Fighters warned against fleeing in face of Pakistani offensive

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban urged his fighters to stand fast against a military offensive in tribal South Waziristan, warning them in an intercepted message obtained Thursday that cowards will go to hell.
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U.N. sets workers’ Afghan exit

Oct. 28 attack spurs pullback for 600 of staff

The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff members out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack on U.N. workers, warning the Afghan government Thursday that international support will wane unless it cracks down on corruption fueling the insurgency.
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Climate-pact goals scaled back

Negotiators look at framework, not treaty, for December meeting

Negotiators and diplomats were working Thursday on a scaled-back version of a global climate-change treaty that could be agreed upon by next month’s deadline.
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Saudis reportedly bomb Yemen rebels

Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen on Thursday in a military incursion apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion, Arab diplomats and the rebels said.
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Ship’s Iran arms cache ‘war crime,’ Israel says

Israel said Thursday that Hezbollah could have bombarded the Jewish state for a month with the weapons confiscated in the country’s largest-ever arms seizure, and called on the world to focus on the Lebanese militants’ chief backer, Iran, rather than assailing Israel.
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U.N. relocating about 600 staff after Afghan attack

The United Nations said Thursday that it will send more than half its international staff either out of Afghanistan or into more secure compounds after last week’s deadly Taliban attack against U.N. workers — the most direct targeting of its employees during decades of work in the country.
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Officials: Alleged US missiles kill 2 in Pakistan

Suspected U.S. missiles killed two alleged militants Thursday in a northwestern tribal region, intelligence officials said, while Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters in a neighboring area along the Afghan border.
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Diplomats: Saudi forces attack rebels in Yemen

Arab diplomats say Saudi Arabia has launched a large military incursion across the border into northern Yemen, aimed at ending a Shiite rebellion inside its troubled southern neighbor.
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Anniversary rift arises in Tehran

Anti-U.S. rally draws opposition

Thousands of Iranians took to the streets Wednesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, but the annual state-sponsored anti-American rally turned into another sign of the deep divisions persisting in this country.
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Seized ship carried arms for Hezbollah, Israel says

Syria denies it was destination for any Iranian arms

Israeli commandos seized a ship Wednesday that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons from Iran bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas — the largest arms shipment Israel has ever seized.
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Italy convicts 23 in rendition case

CIA operatives found to have forcibly sent Muslim cleric to Egypt

An Italian court Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was later tortured.
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At least 8 kids die in India capsizing

At least eight children drowned Wednesday when a boat carrying at least 35 students capsized in southern India, police said.
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Iran proposal to cut subsidies stirs grumbling

Food and fuel among targets

It’s not a good time to be a dry cleaner in downtown Tehran.
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