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'); document.write(''); document.write('KABUL (AP) — The Taliban\'s reclusive leader issued a Muslim holiday message on Wednesday calling on Afghans to break off relations with the government, which he described as a \'stooge\' administration.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian cleric says religious authorities have started taking control of schools, part of a wider ideological drive by hard-liners to wage what authorities call a \"soft war\" against Western influence.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Rare, heavy rainstorms soaked pilgrims and flooded the road into Mecca, snarling Islam\'s annual hajj as millions of Muslims headed for the holy sites. The downpours add an extra hazard on top of intense concerns about the spread of swine flu.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan charged seven men on Wednesday in last year\'s Mumbai terror attacks, its first indictments in a case watched closely by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to punish those responsible.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction in what he says is an attempt to jumpstart Mideast peace talks.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) — Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country\'s worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('JERUSALEM (AP) — With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran\'s proxy armies on its borders.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A wedding was called off because international troops killed the groom. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police patrol. An old woman was beaten by the Taliban after she tried to stop them from taking her son.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Witnesses testifying against two Congolese warlords at the International Criminal Court have been threatened and the court does not have the resources to fully protect them, a senior investigator testified Wednesday.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won support for his country\'s nuclear ambitions and expanded his reach in Latin America in a three-country goodwill tour that took him to close ally Venezuela for his final stop.
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