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Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers

Afghan children run as a NATO helicopter takes off with a container in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. More than 25 ISAF and Afghan National Security Force personnel were killed or wounded during a joint operation that involved multiple engagements over several hours Nov. 6, 2009 in Western Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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KABUL - NATO and Afghan authorities were investigating Saturday whether an airstrike during the intensive search for two missing U.S. paratroopers mistakenly killed eight Afghans and wounded more than 20 Afghan and American forces.

Middle East News

  • Iranian students flash the victory sign and wave their national flag during a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran. Iran's former crown prince Reza Pahlavi has backed a campaign of "civil disobedience and non-violence" to oust the government in Tehran and urged Western support, but warned against any armed intervention.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
    Iran releases 3 journalists jailed during rallies AP - 5 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the country's official news agency reported.

  • Saudi Arabian Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabeeah, right, is administered a swine flu vaccine during the launch of a swine flu vaccine campaign in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Saudi Arabia's health minister said Saturday the kingdom will not ban anyone considered high risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
    Saudi won't bar hajj pilgrims over swine flu fears AP - 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not bar anyone considered high-risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year, though he urged countries where pilgrims set out from to take precautions.

  • Rival Lebanon factions agree on unity government AP - Sat Nov 7, 7:00 AM ET

    BEIRUT - Lebanon's Syrian-backed factions finally agreed on a unity government proposed by their pro-Western rivals on Saturday, ending a four-month deadlock in the deeply divided country.

Europe News

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on the G20 to consider a tax on global financial transactions but the proposal looked doomed amid US opposition.(AFP/POOL/Andrew Winning)
    Brown says G20 should consider transactions tax AFP - 25 minutes ago

    ST ANDREWS, Scotland (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the G20 here on Saturday to consider a tax on global financial transactions but the proposal looked doomed amid US opposition.

  • Tourists pass a painting on a segment of the reopened East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The 105 wall paintings of the former Berlin Wall were restored for the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall in Nov. 2009. The same artists from 21 countries who created the paintings in 1990 repainted their pictures in the world's longest open-air art gallery after the concrete surface of the Wall was replaced. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
    Giant dominoes form tribute to Berlin Wall's fall AP - 41 minutes ago

    BERLIN - Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

  • Kris Boyd is pictured during a 2007 match. Rangers survived a late scare to secure a narrow 2-1 win over St Mirren at Ibrox that moved them up to second in the Scottish Premier League and cut Celtic's advantage at the top.(AFP/File/James Williamson)
    Early-bird Boyd shoots down St Mirren AFP - 59 minutes ago

    GLASGOW (AFP) - Rangers survived a late scare to secure a narrow 2-1 win over St Mirren at Ibrox that moved them up to second in the Scottish Premier League and cut Celtic's advantage at the top.

Latin America

  • Nelson Faria Marinho shows a picture of his son Nelson Marinho, who lost his life in the Air France flight 447 accident, before a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Hundreds of relatives from around the world have gathered Saturday in a park high above a Rio de Janeiro beach for the private ceremony. The cause of the June 1 crash off Brazil's northeastern coast is not known. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
    Air France crash memorial in Rio amid criticism AP - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

    RIO DE JANEIRO - Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide them with the answers or compensation they were promised.

  • US tourist dies 'car surfing' in Puerto Rico AP - 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.

  • Guyana: US 'mastermind' behind arson attacks AP - 2 hours, 57 minutes ago

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.

Africa News

  • In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, a giraffe from Africa's most endangered giraffe subspecies stands in the bush near Koure, Niger. By all accounts, they should be extinct. Instead, their numbers have quadrupled to 200 since 1996, an unlikely boon experts credit to the concurrence of an impoverished government keen for revenue that has enacted laws to protected them, a conservation program that encourages people to support them, and a rare harmony with humans who have accepted their presence. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
    West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback AP - 40 minutes ago

    KOURE, Niger - A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.

  • Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina attends a meeting with ousted president Marc Ravalomanana (not in the picture) in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Irada Humbatova
    AU keeps Madagascar suspension despite new deal Reuters - 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

    ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union (AU) said on Saturday it would not re-admit Madagascar until a newly agreed power-sharing government was in place and fresh elections in the pipeline.

  • Madagascar political rivals reach government deal AP - Sat Nov 7, 11:08 AM ET

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections following a power struggle that brought months of volatility to the country, an African Union statement said.

Asia News

  • Duncan Bell of England (L) is tackled by Stephen Moore of Australia during their Investec Challenge Series International Rugby match at Twickenham Stadium in south-west London. Australia won the game 18-9.(AFP/Ian Kington)
    Wallabies start slam bid with England win AFP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Australia completed the first leg of a possible grand slam after a strong second-half performance saw them beat England 18-9 at Twickenham here on Saturday.

  • Sri Lankan refugees displaced during the final stages of the fighting, prepare to climb aboard state-buses, which will take them to their native homes in the island's northern district of Mannar in October 2009. A top French envoy has asked Sri Lanka to end its state of emergency and probe war crimes ahead of a key European Union ruling on trade concessions to the troubled island.(AFP/File/Ishara S.Kodikara)
    France asks Sri Lanka to end emergency laws AFP - 2 hours, 8 minutes ago

    COLOMBO (AFP) - A top French envoy on Saturday asked Sri Lanka to end its state of emergency and probe war crimes ahead of a key European Union ruling on trade concessions to the troubled island.

  • Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao -- pictured giving a speech at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo -- has sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)
    China PM reaches out to Muslims in Cairo speech AFP - 2 hours, 34 minutes ago

    CAIRO (AFP) - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority.

Canada

  • Flaherty says transaction tax unattractive Reuters - 1 hour, 40 minutes ago

    ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Proposals for a tax on financial transactions to fund the cost of future bank bailouts are unattractive, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Saturday.

  • Canada October job losses reverse positive trend Reuters - Fri Nov 6, 11:28 AM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada lost more jobs in October than even the gloomiest analyst had predicted, dashing hopes for a quick economic rebound and suggesting a recovery in the labor market may have gotten off to a false start.

  • Toronto wins vote to host 2015 Pan American Games Reuters - Fri Nov 6, 6:21 PM ET

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games on Friday by beating Bogota, Colombia and Lima, Peru on the first ballot in a vote in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Australia/Antarctica News

  • A woman with a child in a pusher is seen struggling in rain and wind as she walks through Sydney centre, a few days ago. Australian authorities have declared a natural disaster along parts of the country's east coast as heavy floods cut the main road linking major cities, stranding thousands of people.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
    Disaster declared in flood-hit Australia AFP - Sat Nov 7, 12:04 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian authorities declared a natural disaster along parts of the country's east coast as heavy floods cut the main road linking major cities, stranding thousands of people.

  • Sri Lankan asylum seekers stand on the lower deck of the Australian Customs and Immigration Fisheries Patrol vessel anchored off Indonesia's Riau Island of Tanjung Pinang, in October 2009. The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)
    Indonesia extends Australia refugee boat's stay AFP - Fri Nov 6, 1:28 AM ET

    JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia extended by a week on Friday a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.

  • An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard, seen here in 2007, during a debate at Cambridge University.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
    Shoe thrown at former Australian PM in Cambridge AFP - Thu Nov 5, 6:52 AM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard during a debate at Cambridge University, the quick-thinking student who caught the shoe said on Thursday.

Most Popular World News

  • U.S.Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le is seen in front of his ship USS Lassen, off the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
    Unique homecoming to Vietnam for US commander AP - Sat Nov 7, 8:47 AM ET

    DANANG, Vietnam - On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.

  • Miss England gives up crown after fracas reports AP - Fri Nov 6, 9:26 AM ET

    LONDON - The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.

  • Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor identified by authorities as the suspect in a mass shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from a pdf file of the U.S. Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences downloaded on November 6, 2009. Investigators searched for the motive on Friday behind the mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which the Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people. Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States of immigrant parents, was shot four times by police, a base spokesman said. He was unconscious but in stable condition. REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout (UNITED STATES MILITARY CRIME LAW HEADSHOT CONFLICT) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
    Shooting reveals tensions over Muslims in the military McClatchy Newspapers - Fri Nov 6, 8:59 PM ET

    WASHINGTON — The killings of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, by an Army psychiatrist who also was a Muslim set off a rancorous debate Friday that once again spotlighted the fear among Muslims in America that they'll be collectively found guilty for the actions of one man.