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Official: US successes in Iraq forcing insurgents to Afghanistan; bomb kills 9 civilians
Associated Press WriterKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday. In a demonstration of the increasingly deadly attacks unleashed by...Tags: Rebellions, Wars and Interventions, Bombings, NATO, Injuries
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Deported, now divided
Chicago Tribune reportersThe phone rings on the 847 area code line used by AMS Earth Movers in Highland Park. After a few chimes, Adam Savitt picks up the call amid the lush banana fields of Guatemala. The connection is fine, but the ties to his life in Lake County are fading...Tags: Family, Religious Conflicts, Heavy Engineering, Migration, Demographics
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Vote for Obama, lifelong Republican tells women
South Florida Sun-SentinelRita Hauser is a lifelong Republican. But early last week the founder of Republicans for Obama urged about 100 Jewish women meeting at a home in Boca Raton to vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate. "My party has lost its way," Hauser said at the...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Robert Wexler, Government, National Government, Wars and Interventions
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Francis B. Sayre Jr., 93, dies; dean of Washington National Cathedral
Washington PostFrancis B. Sayre Jr., who as dean of Washington National Cathedral for 27 years oversaw much of its completion and used his pulpit to confront McCarthyism, racial tensions and the Vietnam War, died Oct. 3 at his home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was...Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Armed Forces, Religious Conflicts, The White House, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Pakistanis worry they're at risk in global crisis
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTake a restive, nuclear-armed nation with an untested new government, an escalating Islamic insurgency, long-standing tensions with its neighbors and an economy in free fall for months. Then add in a global financial crisis. Some analysts and diplomats...Tags: Asif Ali Zardari, Religious Conflicts, Stock Broking, Economic Organization, Budgets and Budgeting
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WAR UPDATE
Time's running out for reaching a security agreement, and an accord is unlikely before the end of this year, Iraq's Sunni Muslim vice president said yesterday. The United Nations mandate that authorizes the U.S. military presence in Iraq will expire Dec....Tags: Rebellions, Government, National Government, United Nations, Wars and Interventions
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Israelis unhappy over Jerusalem plot's return to Russians
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersNearly 150 years after Russian Czar Alexander II bought a large plot of land in Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Moscow last week bearing a gift: the deed. The move by the outgoing Israeli leader, after...Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, Knesset, Religious Conflicts, Christianity, Government
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AP Impact: Insurgents worldwide take cues from Iraq, grabbing foreigners for ransom, influence
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ Five years ago, retired Air Force intelligence officer Kirk von Ackermann became the first of 39 Americans to be kidnapped in Iraq. He's still missing, his wife fearing she'll never see him again. Besides the personal tragedy, his...Tags: Rebellions, Armed Forces, Prisoners and Detainees, Prisons, Missing in Action
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Rewards and risks: US companies rely on volatile emerging markets for growth lacking at home
AP Business WriterCINCINNATI (AP) _ With Russian troops pushing into Georgia, Keith Harrison was working his e-mail back in Cincinnati. The first thing he wanted to know: Were Procter & Gamble Co. employees accounted for? Yes, was the answer. Then, did they and their...Tags: Beverage Industry, Religious Conflicts, Employees, Consumers, Real Estate Sales
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Lebanon says it has arrested Islamic militants responsible for bombings
Special to The TimesBEIRUT -- Lebanese security forces rounded up a group of Islamic militants believed to be responsible for a pair of bomb attacks targeting soldiers in the country's northern city of Tripoli, authorities disclosed Monday. Security officials were tight-...Tags: Armed Forces, Religious Conflicts, Bombings, Refugee, Demographics
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Car bombs, sniper attacks kill, wound many in Iraq
Associated PressSuicide car bombers struck twice yesterday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed by snipers...Tags: Armed Forces, Religious Conflicts, Bombings, Defense, Vehicles
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Taliban fail in bid to take Afghan provincial capital
Los Angeles TimesTaliban fighters made an unusual bid to capture a provincial capital, Afghan and Western officials said yesterday, a failed assault that underscored their heightened boldness in recent months. Hundreds of Taliban militants took part in the multipronged...Tags: Rebellions, Armed Forces, NATO, Terrorism, Guerrilla Activity
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