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US, Australia press Pakistan on Afghan border security
Posted on Jul 25, 2008 - 1:11 am - AFP
AFP - The United States and Australia on Friday urged Pakistan to do more to control militant activity in its border areas to stem the growing insurgency in Afghanistan.

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US Congress renews Myanmar import ban legislation
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 10:56 pm - AFP
AFP - The US Congress has voted to renew a legislation banning all imports from military-ruled Myanmar and sent it for President George W. Bush's signature, lawmakers said Thursday.

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USVI weighs gas pipeline to Puerto Rico
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 9:58 pm - AP
AP - The U.S. Virgin Islands may build a pipeline to replace diesel-generated power with natural gas brought in from a bigger grid in the nearby U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the head of the islands' utility company said Thursday.

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UK Labour Party loses vote in setback to Brown
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 8:42 pm - Reuters
Reuters - Britain's ruling Labour Party lost a parliamentary election in one of its traditional strongholds in a serious setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, results showed on Friday.

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Users May Help to Vet Android Apps
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 7:54 pm - PC World
PC World - Google may use a user-driven rating system to help keep bad or harmful Android applications off mobile phones.

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U.S. missile crew falls asleep with launch codes
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 7:24 pm - Reuters
Reuters - A three-member U.S. ballistic missile crew fell asleep while in possession of classified launch codes for nuclear missiles, the Air Force said on Thursday.

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U.N. Security Council split on how to deal with Myanmar
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 5:48 pm - Reuters
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council was split on Thursday over how to push Myanmar to improve human rights and adopt democratic reforms as a U.N. special envoy prepared for a key visit to the Asian nation.

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US fentanyl deaths topped 1,000 over 2 years
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 3:01 pm - AP
AP - More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the government reported Thursday in its first national tally of those deaths.

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US envoy says Iraq insurgency has lost its clout
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 1:37 pm - AP
AP - The insurgency that bedeviled U.S. forces for years and killed thousands of Iraqis and Americans has withered to the point where it is "not even much of a challenge any more" to Iraq's future, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press.

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U.S. to use $230M in anti-terror aid to upgrade Pakistan's F-16s
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 12:41 pm - AFP
AFP - The White House confirmed Thursday that it wants to shift 230 million dollars in aid to Pakistan from counter-terrorism programs to upgrading Islamabad's ageing F-16 fighter jets.

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U.S.- Mexico border bracing for Dolly flooding
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 11:39 am - Reuters
Reuters - After Hurricane Dolly unleashed a fury of damaging winds and wicked rain on the U.S.-Mexico coastline and diminished to a tropical storm, widespread flooding along the populous Rio Grande Valley became the top concern on Thursday.

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U.S. wants counterterror funds for Pakistan F-16s
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 11:11 am - Reuters
Reuters - The Bush administration has proposed shifting $226.5 million in U.S. counterterrorism aid to Pakistan to upgrade Pakistani F-16 fighters, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

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US envoy doubts Iraqis will revert to violence
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 10:33 am - AP
AP - Iraqis, having lived through years of sectarian warfare, are unlikely to revert to mass violence as they sort out their future, the top U.S. diplomat to Baghdad told The Associated Press on Thursday.

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U.S. wants counterterrorism funds for Pakistan F-16s
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 9:45 am - Reuters
Reuters - The Bush administration has proposed using counterterrorism funds from aid to Pakistan for the upkeep of Islamabad's F-16 fighter jets, the White House said on Thursday.

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US calls for peaceful resolution of Thai-Cambodia flare-up
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 2:49 am - AFP
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday called for a peaceful resolution to a dangerous border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia as Asia's main security talks were held here.

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US wants to shift $226 million on Pakistan money
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 11:32 pm - AP
AP - The State Department wants to use about two-thirds of its proposed military equipment aid for Pakistan's anti-terrorism programs to help the key U.S. ally upgrade its aging fleet of U.S.-made F-16 fighter planes.

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UN should be hesitant on Darfur mission: Peacekeeping chief
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 9:36 pm - AFP
AFP - The UN Security Council has "good reasons" to be unsure about sending large numbers of peacekeepers to Sudan's Darfur region, its outgoing head of peacekeeping said in an interview published Thursday.

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US lawmakers consider Olympic rights message to China
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 8:58 pm - AFP
AFP - A resolution was introduced Wednesday in the US House of Representatives asking China to end human rights abuses and its support for tainted governments in Sudan and Myanmar in line with "Olympic traditions of freedom and openness".

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UN Security Council mulls meet on Cambodian-Thai dispute
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 7:03 pm - AFP
AFP - The Security Council is mulling whether to take up the tense military standoff between Cambodia and Thailand as the two neighbors massed more troops along their border, Vietnam's UN ambassador said Wednesday.

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Ukraine Jews want graves building halted
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 7:03 pm - AP
AP - A Jewish group asked the Ukrainian government on Wednesday to stop construction on the site of a grave containing the remains of an estimated 26,000 victims of the Holocaust.

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U.N. council to take up Cambodia-Thai dispute
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 6:25 pm - Reuters
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council will hold a special meeting on a border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand that has sparked fears of a military clash, France and Vietnam said on Wednesday.

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U.S. rejects outside probe of Canadian sent to Syria
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 5:30 pm - Reuters
Reuters - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday he had rejected a request from lawmakers that an outside special counsel investigate the case of a Canadian taken off a plane in New York and sent to Syria, where he says he was tortured.

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