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Monday, December 1, 2008

Americans’ tales tell of blood, barricades

PUBLIC PAIN: Mourners place
flower petals around photos of police officers killed in the siege, which lasted 60 hours. MUMBAI, India - After the gunmen left, a waiter whispered, “If you can move,...

India demands strong action from Pakistan

MUMBAI, India - India demanded Monday that Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the deadly Mumbai attacks, and Washington pressured Islamabad...

Highest tide in 20 years floods historic Venice

People wade through high water by Venice’s Rialto Bridge, northern Italy, Monday. VENICE, Italy - Venice could use a bailout. The city built on water has too much of it. Residents and tourists waded...

Mumbai gunman a Pakistani militant

PUBLIC PAIN: Grief grips all at a memorial service yesterday for the victims of the terrorist attack at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India. MUMBAI, India - The only gunman captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai...

Iraq: Bombs kill more than 30 in Baghdad, Mosul

U.S. and Iraqi soldiers stand by the crater created by a car bomb near the entrance to a police academy in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. BAGHDAD - A suicide bombing tore through a line of recruits waiting to enter a police academy as multiple blasts struck...

Ministry: One Dutchman died in Mumbai attacks

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Netherlands’ foreign ministry says a Dutch man died in the Taj Mahal hotel during last week’s terrorist attacks on...

German man shoots himself after court sentencing

BERLIN - German police say a man has shot himself in a courtroom seconds after a judge convicted and sentenced him on six counts of arson. Police in the...

UN officials launch ‘Year of the Gorilla’

A mountain gorilla is seen carrying her baby, in the Virunga National Park, near the Uganda border in eastern Congo, Tuesday. ROME - The "Year of the Gorilla" began Monday — a U.N. effort to raise money...

Journalists escape car bomb in Iraq

BAGHDAD - An American journalist for National Public Radio and three Iraqi colleagues escaped injury yesterday when a bomb attached to their car exploded as...

US deaths in Afghanistan drop dramatically

KABUL, Afghanistan - Only one American serviceman died in Afghanistan in November, a dramatic drop from earlier months that the U.S. military attributed to...

South Korea among countries ending Iraq deployment

IRBIL, Iraq - South Korean troops are leaving Iraq, bringing to an end a mission that focused on rebuilding hospitals, roads and schools but divided South Korea’s...

Barack Obama still looks to 16-month pullout

CHICAGO - Barack Obama says the U.S.-Iraq security agreement approved by Iraq’s parliament puts the U.S. on a "glide...

Condoleezza Rice: Pakistan must cooperate in terror probe

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. LONDON -The United States has told Pakistan it expects nothing short of complete cooperation in investigations into...

Dirty teeth reveal ancient diet

WASHINGTON - Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru. Dental...

Failure of Libyan ship shows limits on aid to Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas officials, a crowd of porters, a fleet of flatbed trucks and a flag-waving scout troupe assembled...

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