TORONTO (AP) -- A former senior Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan said Wednesday that top ranking Canadian officials ignored evidence that prisoners Canada handed over to Afghanistan’s intelligence service a few years ago were tortured.
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Senate health bill to cost $849B
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The political stakes enormous, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched long-awaited health care legislation Wednesday estimated to extend coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans at a cost of $849 billion.
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HAVANA (AP) -- Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children’s ball field at a faded sports complex under Havana’s warm Caribbean sun.
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TOKYO -- President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe's fastest-growing region is over and warned that the U.
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KABUL -- Britain's prime minister said Friday that Europe may send 5,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan -- affirming support for the NATO mission as the Obama administration nears a decision on increasing American troop levels.
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Legal, political risks abound in NYC trial of 9/11 suspects; military to try 5 other detainees
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hauling the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen to a New York courthouse is a risky proposition for President Barack Obama.
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BEIJING (AP) -- Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being investigated.
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Palestinian vote put off, Abbas stays
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who last week said he didn’t want to run for re-election, may get to stay in office without a single ballot being cast.
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KABUL (AP) -- International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer -- enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban’s most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced Tuesday.
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Karzai gets 2nd term
KABUL (AP) -- President Hamid Karzai was effectively handed a second five-year term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administration said it was prepared to work with the man it has previously criticized to combat corruption and confront the Taliban insurgency.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- By saying he wants to step down as president, Mahmoud Abbas has highlighted a deep Palestinian despair rooted in decades of failed peace initiatives and fruitless violence.
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