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A man injured by an explosion in Kohat is treated at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city killing many people and leaving scores of people injured, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country.
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 The Star 
Car bomb kills 20 in Pakistan after Taliban threat
| KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police residential complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, officials said, in another blow for a country grappl... (photo: AP / Mohammad Iqbal)
Rumors of Osama bin Laden's death have been greatly exaggerated, again. The latest tantalizing lead on the al-Qaida leader (shown here with is top lieutenant, Ayman Al-Zawahri in an image taken from a videotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera on Oct. 5, 2001) came Saturday, when a French newspaper reported on a leaked document from the French government, asserting that a Saudi source said the Saudi government believed the 52-year-old terror leader had perished of typhoid last month. Officials in the United States and other countries have since rushed to say there's no evidence to substantiate the report
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 The Star 
Arrests stir worry about Qaeda plots in West
| LONDON (Reuters) - Their place in history assured, are al Qaeda's ageing leaders content merely to propagate their ideology and tactics among like-minded militant groups? Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ay... (photo: AP / Courtesy of Al-Jazeera via APTN, File)
A child of road construction workers sits near her parent's work site, in Gurgaon, India, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. In 2006, nearly 9.7 million children died worldwide before reaching the age of 5, mostly from preventable causes such as diarrhea, malaria or malnutrition, UNICEF said in its annual report, released Tuesda  The Star 
UNICEF to boost aid efficiency by targeting poorest
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. children's foundation UNICEF plans to make the poorest and most remote regions of needy nations top priority for aid, an approach it said on Tuesday is not only m... (photo: AP / Gurinder Osan)
Aid   Photos   Poverty   Unicef   Wikipedia: UNICEF  
 Afghanistan  Ohio 
U.S. expects to spend big in Afghanistan for years
| WASHINGTON: The U.S. government's financial commitment to Afghanistan is likely to linger and reach into the billions long after it pulls combat troops from the country, newly disclosed spending est... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
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Afghans burn an effigy of Dove World Outreach Center's pastor Terry Jones during a demonstration against the United States in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. National Post
Planned burning of Qur'an will 'endanger troops': Petraeus
  By Sardar Ahmad, Agence France-Presse September 7, 2010 7:02 AM        In an interview with Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, Gen. Petraeus said of the plan: “It ... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq)
Islam   Military   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Dove World Outreach Center  
Afghan soldiers chat in front of the main office of Kabul Bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Al Jazeera
Afghan bank officers' assets frozen
| Afghanistan has frozen the assets of leading shareholders and borrowers at Kabul Bank, the country's leading private bank, in the wake of the crisis sparked by the resi... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghanistan   Banking   Finance   Photos   Wikipedia: Kabul Bank  
Gen. David Petraeus CBS News
Top US Commander: Burning Quran Endangers Troops
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book the Quran could... (photo: AP / Susan Walsh, File)
Photos   Religion   Security   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Islamic terrorism  
Gen. David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command, is seen at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington,Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Zeenews
Koran burning will endanger US lives: Petraeus
Kabul: The US commander of the Afghan war has warned that troops' lives will be endangered if a Florida evangelical church goes ahead with a planned burning of the Koran ... (photo: AP / Cliff Owen)
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   Us   Wikipedia :David Petraeus  
A Roma rights activist holds a drawing depicting French President Nicolas Sarkozy, during a protest in front of the French embassy in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. The New York Times
East European Eyes on France's Roma Policy
| PARIS — After a summer marked by a needless quarrel over how to treat their Roma population, the French seem on course for an autumn of discontent over issues muc... (photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda)
Europe   France   Immigration   Photos   Wikipedia: Romani people  
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