AP - Israel is planning to build 1,100 new apartments for Israelis in east Jerusalem, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday, angering Palestinians who want the area as a capital of their future state and further troubling peace talks.
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Israel building plans anger Palestinians (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:12pm EST
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The US troop surge, a year later (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:08pm EST
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AP - A year ago in Baghdad: Shiite militiamen and Sunni insurgents owned entire neighborhoods and key areas beyond. Iraq's government was adrift, and U.S. commanders weighed the real possibility of being trapped in a full-scale civil war. -
Kenyan politicians discuss power-sharing (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
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AP - Peace talks to end postelection bloodshed in Kenya moved to a secret location Tuesday for a final push. Negotiators said the opposition has proposed sharing power with the government for two years and then holding new elections.
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Russia: Bombers flight routine patrol (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:01pm EST
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AP - The Russian military said Tuesday that its bombers' flyover of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific was part of a routine patrol conducted in accordance with international rules.
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US officials may travel to Okinawa to follow up rape case (AFP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 11:52am EST
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AFP - Senior US officials based in Japan may travel to the southern island of Okinawa to follow up on the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl there by a US Marine, a US official said here Tuesday.
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Pakistani troops fan out ahead of polls (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:54am EST
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AP - Tens of thousands of troops fanned out across Pakistan on Tuesday to bolster security ahead of next week's parliamentary elections, but senior military officials say they would not try to interfere with the vote.
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Trial of 9/11 plotters faces hurdles (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:30am EST
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AP - Nearly 6 1/2 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. is preparing to prosecute six of the men it says are responsible. But the trial and verdicts remain a long way off in the death penalty cases.
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Puerto Rican may be extradited to Conn. (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:27am EST
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AP - A judge has ruled that an alleged member of a militant Puerto Rican independence group should be extradited to Connecticut to face charges in a 1983 robbery. -
Sadrists condemn journalists kidnapping (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 9:47am EST
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AP - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office on Tuesday condemned the kidnapping of two CBS journalists in the southern city of Basra, while Iraqi police said an intensive search was under way for the men.
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Troops patrol East Timor as president recuperates (AFP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 9:46am EST
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AFP - Troops and police enforced a state of emergency across East Timor on Tuesday as President Jose Ramos-Horta recuperated from an assassination bid that doctors said he was lucky to survive.
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Danes nab suspects in cartoonist plot (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 7:49am EST
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AP - Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.