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Questions raised over Afghan police force

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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan — While the Obama administration is counting on Afghanistan's security forces being able to defend the country by the summer of 2011, a commander with the Afghan National Army questions if his nation's police force will be up to the task...

Egyptian court halts virginity tests on female protesters

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CAIRO — A Cairo court has ruled against forced virginity tests on female protesters detained in military prisons...

Questions remain about U.S. military presence in Haiti

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WASHINGTON — As the number of U.S. soldiers in Haiti...

Drone strike kills 16 in Pakistan’s tribal areas

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A U.S. drone missile attack that may have been aimed at Pakistan's...

Police, protesters clash in Cairo; 1 person killed

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CAIRO — One person was killed and more than 130...

Blair tells investigative panel that Iraq war was justified

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LONDON — In an eagerly anticipated appearance, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday told a British panel investigating the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein had become too dangerous a threat to ignore in a post-9-11 world and that the decision to invade in ...

Boater found shipwrecked, safe in Bahamas

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CHICAGO — A Chicago area boater who was missing for several days was found safe on an uninhabited island in the Bahamas...