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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AFP) - At least 30 people were killed Friday when suicide bombers stormed a packed mosque in Pakistan's garrison city Rawalpindi, with gunfire and explosions rocking the area, officials said. Full Story »
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BRUSSELS (AFP) - US allies in Afghanistan have so far offered some 7,000 troops to help battle the Taliban insurgency and there are "more to come", NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday. Full Story »
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PERUGIA, Italy (AFP) - Italian jurors withdrew on Friday to decide whether 22-year-old American Amanda Knox should spend the rest of her days in prison for the 2007 murder of her British housemate. Full Story »
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CONAKRY (AFP) - Guinea's military put up blockades at main roads into the capital Friday after an officer accused of trying to assassinate junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara went into hiding, sources said. Full Story »
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KALAPATTAR, Nepal (AFP) - Nepalese ministers equipped with oxygen tanks battled freezing temperatures for a cabinet meeting in the shadow of Mount Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas. Full Story »
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MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalia's hardline Islamist insurgents denied Friday that they carried out a suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu that killed at least 23 people, including three government ministers. Full Story »
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DHAKA (AFP) - At least 43 people died in northeastern Bangladesh on Friday after a ferry capsized and sank, police said, the second such accident in the impoverished nation in a week. Full Story »
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YANGON (AFP) - Military-ruled Myanmar's supreme court has agreed to hear an appeal against the extended house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, an official said Friday. Full Story »
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MOSCOW (AFP) - US-Russian talks on finding a replacement for the START nuclear disarmament treaty which is about to expire are "coming to a close," Russia's foreign ministry said Friday, with no signs of a last-minute deal. Full Story »
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BRUSSELS (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged NATO and its partners in Afghanistan to rally behind a new strategy to combat the insurgency and "finish it together". Full Story »
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