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'); document.write(''); document.write('KABUL (AP) — Bomb attacks and a firefight killed four U.S. service members in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Dozens of gunmen abducted and fatally shot at least 21 people in the southern Philippines on Monday — a massacre that appeared related to local politics.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese dissident was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after criticizing the government\'s response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed about 90,000 people.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A French amphibious assault ship like the one Russia hopes to buy arrived Monday in St. Petersburg, fueling concern in Georgia and other ex-Soviet nations that Russia is upgrading its navy to intimidate its neighbors.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — For Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\'s visit to Brazil provides some sorely needed political legitimacy for his increasingly isolated nation.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania\'s centrist president will face a socialist former foreign minister in a Dec. 6 runoff election, partial results showed Monday, in a race key to helping the country emerge from a political and economic crisis.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Closing arguments began Monday in the genocide trial of a Khmer Rouge prison chief, with the prosecution accusing Kaing Guek Eav of having pursued his role with zeal despite his expressions of remorse for atrocities.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A man who blames the Church of Scientology for his brother\'s suicide added his voice Monday to calls for an Australia Senate inquiry into the religion.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia\'s Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned and 20 others were missing.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A kangaroo startled by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, pinning the pet underwater and slashing the owner in the abdomen with its hind legs.
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