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U.S. considers adding troops in Baghdad
Oct 24 2006 11:57PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two weeks before U.S. midterm elections, American officials unveiled a timeline Tuesday for Iraq's Shiite-led government to take specific steps to calm the world's most dangerous capital and said more U.S. troops might be needed to quell the bloodshed.
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Kidnapped AP photographer freed in Gaza
Oct 24 2006 11:53PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Associated Press photographer was freed unharmed Tuesday after a harrowing day in the hands of Palestinians who abducted him at gunpoint and dressed him in women's clothes to spirit him from one secret location to another.
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Israel to carry out more Gaza operations
Oct 24 2006 6:28PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli army will carry out more military operations in the Gaza Strip to prevent Palestinian rocket attacks and arms smuggling from Egypt, the defense minister said Tuesday.
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No word on soldier missing in Baghdad
Oct 24 2006 5:02PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military carried out house-to-house searches in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood for an Army translator missing after reportedly being kidnapped, but said Tuesday they had found no sign of him.
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Envoy says not all is bad in Iraq
Oct 24 2006 3:51PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad insisted Tuesday that things are not all bad in Iraq, citing the growing number of satellite dishes on rooftops and consumers with cell phones as signs of economic progress.
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Moderate earthquake strikes Turkey
Oct 24 2006 3:31PM (CT)
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - A moderate earthquake struck northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, the second to shake Istanbul in less than a week. No injuries or serious damage were reported.
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West wants Iran technology sales banned
Oct 24 2006 3:06PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The U.S. and its allies want the U.N. Security Council to ban the sale of missile and atomic technology to Iran and end most U.N. help for its nuclear programs _ moves diplomats said Tuesday are narrowly focused in hopes of winning Russian and Chinese backing for sanctions.
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Exodus of Iraqi spilling into Europe
Oct 24 2006 1:52PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled the unrelenting violence in their homeland since the U.S. invasion in 2003 _ a mass exodus directed primarily to neighboring Arab countries.
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Morocco, Algeria grant Ramadan pardons
Oct 24 2006 1:40PM (CT)
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Moroccan King Mohamed VI has pardoned 617 prisoners in honor of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday.
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Ahmadinejad opposes finger-print bill
Oct 24 2006 10:51AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's fiercely anti-U.S. president has come out against a bill that would require Americans to be fingerprinted on arrival in Iran.
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