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Israeli hospital hosts cancer-stricken Iranian boy

AP - Saturday, October 11

JERUSALEM - The head of an Israeli hospital where an Iranian boy is being treated for a brain tumor said Friday he hoped the gesture will help improve understanding between the bitterly divided countries. More »

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  • Iraqi PM: Top cleric won't block US pact

    AP - Saturday, October 11

    BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister said Friday that the country's most influential Shiite cleric will leave the decision on the future of U.S. troops to the government and parliament _ a step that could remove a major obstacle to a deal. More »

  • Israeli town struggles to move on after clashes

    AP - Saturday, October 11

    ACRE, Israel - Police dispersed hundreds of Jewish protesters with water canons Friday in this northern Israel city, trying to ease tensions after two days of rioting that shook a mixed Jewish-Arab community. More »

  • Suicide blast kills 32 in Pakistan: officials

    AFP - Saturday, October 11

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - - The toll from a suicide blast at an anti-Taliban tribal meeting in a restive Pakistani region near the Afghan border Friday has more than doubled to 32, a local government said. More »

  • Gov't probes US defense contractor over payments

    AP - Saturday, October 11

    WASHINGTON - Army criminal investigators are examining whether Combat Support Associates, a defense contractor that has earned more than $2 billion so far supporting U.S. troops in Iraq, overcharged the government. More »

  • Intel report: Afghanistan facing 'downward spiral'

    AP - Friday, October 10

    WASHINGTON - The situation in Afghanistan now is the worst since the U.S.-led invasion of 2001 and the country is in danger of a "downward spiral" into violence and chaos, according to an intelligence report draft. More »

  • Iran suspends sales tax after rare merchant strike

    AP - Friday, October 10

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his government to suspend a controversial new sales tax Thursday, a day after a rare strike by merchants worried about how the new measure would affect their business. More »

  • Relatives and friends of assassinated Iraqi anti-American Sadrist member of parliament Saleh al-Ogayly carry his coffin during his funeral in Baghdad. Ogayly was assassinated in a bomb attack today in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, marking the first killing of a MP in 18 months, his radical Sadrist faction said.

    Iraqi PM vows to capture killers of anti-US Shiite MP

    AFP - Friday, October 10

    BAGHDAD (AFP) - - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed on Thursday to capture the assassins of an anti-American Shiite MP, the first lawmaker to be killed in 18 months, and ordered a top-level investigation. More »

  • An Afghan soldier in Arghandab in June 2008. At least 27 Islamic militants were killed in military operations across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities said Thursday, while villagers reported that 10 civilians died in rebel gunfire.

    US says 27 militants killed in Afghanistan

    AFP - Friday, October 10

    KABUL (AFP) - - At least 27 Islamic militants were killed in military operations across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities said Thursday, while villagers reported that 10 civilians died in rebel gunfire. More »

  • Iraqis wounded by a roadside bomb are rushed to a hospital in Baquba. A Shiite radical MP died of injuries from a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City.

    Sadrist MP assassinated in Baghdad

    AFP - Friday, October 10

    BAGHDAD (AFP) - - A Shiite radical MP died of injuries from a roadside bomb attack on Thursday in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, his Sadrist faction said. More »

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