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Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces

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 - U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west.

Middle East News

  • Palestinian forces security members participate in a rally in support of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Hebron Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Abbas has pushed Mideast peace prospects into unknown territory by announcing Thursday he doesn't want another term and opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
    Peres calls on Palestinian leader not to quit AP - 3 minutes ago

    TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a public commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier.

  • 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 - 1 hour, 7 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 - 2 hours, 44 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.

Europe News

  • 2006 Nobel Peace Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus gives a speech before the plenary Session of the 4th European Developpment Days meeting in Stockholm in October 2009. Yunus brought on Saturday ideas for creating micro "social businesses" from Bangladesh to Germany, with backing from several of the world's leading corporations.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)
    Nobel laureate brings Bangladesh business model to Europe AFP - 4 minutes ago

    WOLFSBURG, Germany (AFP) - Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus brought on Saturday ideas for creating micro "social businesses" from Bangladesh to Germany, with backing from several of the world's leading corporations.

  • Arsenal's midfielder Cesc Fabregas celebrates scoring his goal with teammates during their English Premier League football match against the Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton. Arsenal swept Wolves aside to climb to second place in the Premier League on Saturday as a fifth consecutive draw resulted in Manchester City being ejected from the top four.(AFP/Paul Ellis)
    Arsenal up to second as City slip in Premier League AFP - 18 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Arsenal swept Wolves aside to climb to second place in the Premier League on Saturday as a fifth consecutive draw resulted in Manchester City being ejected from the top four.

  • Dominoes stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Around 1,000 dominoes were placed on the former border near the Brandenburg Gate for the Festival of Freedom on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 2009 and will collapse during the commemoration event. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)
    Giant dominoes form tribute to Berlin Wall's fall AP - 27 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.

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 - 8 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.

  • Graphic tracks the projected path of Tropical Storm Ida
    Ida spurs tropical-storm warnings in Caribbean AP - 45 minutes ago

    CANCUN, Mexico - Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.

  • US tourist dies 'car surfing' in Puerto Rico AP - 2 hours, 43 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.

Africa News

  • Chinese Prime minister Wen Jiabao talks at a session of the 4th Ministerial Conference of the Sino-African Forum in Egypt''s Sharm el Sheik Resort Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.(AP Photo)
    Chinese premier: Africa trade push is 'selfless' AP - 48 minutes ago

    SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - China's premier stressed Saturday that his country's push to boost already burgeoning trade ties with Africa was "sincere and selfless," as the Asian powerhouse battled criticism its quest for natural resources was at the expense of the poverty-ravaged continent.

  • 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 - 1 hour, 41 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 - Sat Nov 7, 11:45 AM ET

    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.

Asia News

  • Nobel laureate brings Bangladesh business model to Europe AFP - 4 minutes ago

    WOLFSBURG, Germany (AFP) - Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus brought on Saturday ideas for creating micro "social businesses" from Bangladesh to Germany, with backing from several of the world's leading corporations.

  • Wales full back James Hook (R) is tackled by New Zealand's Adam Thomson during their international rugby union match at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. New Zealand extended their crushing rugby dominance of Wales with a hard-fought 19-12 win here on Saturday to stretch their winning streak to 21 games dating back 56 years.(AFP/Andrew Yates)
    Carter masterminds All Blacks win over Wales AFP - 30 minutes ago

    CARDIFF (AFP) - New Zealand extended their crushing rugby dominance of Wales with a hard-fought 19-12 win here on Saturday to stretch their winning streak to 21 games dating back 56 years.

  • 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)
    Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces AP - 45 minutes ago

    KABUL - U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west.

Canada

  • Flaherty says transaction tax unattractive Reuters - 2 hours, 41 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.