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2 Dutch climbers rescued from K-2 in Pakistan
A helicopter plucked two frostbitten Dutch climbers from the world's second-highest mountain Monday after an avalanche left at least 11 people missing and believed dead.
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Four Days Before Games, Beijing Air Is Thick
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Attackers in western China kill 16 border officers
11 climbers on K2 reported dead after an avalanche
Police Tape: Canada Bus Killer Ate Victim's Flesh
Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
VIDEO: Car bomb carnage in Baghdad
Aug. 03 - A car bomb kills 12 people and wounds 22 others in a Sunni area of Iraq's capital.
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Police say 68 killed in India temple stampede
At least 68 people, including 30 children were killed Sunday when pilgrims stampeded at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India, police said.
The devotees were attending a nine-day religious festival at the Naina Devi Temple in the Bilaspur district of the Himachal Pradesh state, said Bilaspur deputy police chief C.P. Verma.
'As per our information, 30 children and 38 women have been killed,' he said, adding that more than 40 others were wounded.
Verma said the stampede was caused by too many pilgrims trying to squeeze into a small area.
Iraqi police: Vehicle bomb kills 8 in Baghdad
August 03, 2008 - 1:32 a.m. Iraqi police say a vehicle bomb has killed eight people and wounded 14 in northern Baghdad.
NKorea to expel SKoreans from tourist resort
North Korea says it will eject South Koreans from a mountain resort in the communist country, a further sign of fraying ties between the divided countries.
Iran, on deadline day, vows no nuclear retreat
TEHRAN - Iran said on Saturday it would not back down "one iota" in its nuclear row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the West over ...
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Pakistan to probe Indian embassy bombing in Kabul
Pakistan's prime minister on Saturday promised to investigate accusations that his country's intelligence agency was involved in the deadly July 7 bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, a top Indian diplomat said.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani also told his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, that he would discuss the matter with Afghanistan's president, India's Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters.
The prime ministers of India and Pakistan met in the Sri Lankan capital on Saturday on the sidelines of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation summit.
More than 10,000 detainees released in Iraq
The U.S. military said Saturday it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year _ more than in all of 2007 _ as it continues to try phase out its running of Iraqi prisons.
Obsolete coins cause chaos at Zimbabwe tills
A man carries a bag filled with old Zimbabwean coins to a bank in downtown Harare Friday August 1, 2008.
News Story: Japan premier promises change in Cabinet shake-up
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's new cabinet took office Saturday following a shakeup aimed at turning the tide of his unpopularity and regaining the support of voters worried about rising prices and fed up with ...
Iraq suffers from dirty water, fears about cholera
Filthy drinking water in parts of Baghdad raises fears about cholera; sewage comes out of taps BAGHDAD - Just months after Americans repaired a sewage treatment plant in southern Baghdad, insurgents attacked ...
Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say
Man accused of killing, dismembering girlfriend
Police on Thursday accused a Brazilian man of killing and dismembering his 17-year-old British girlfriend, taking pictures of her body parts with his cell phone and stuffing her torso in a suitcase.
A man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger
A man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger, witnesses said Thursday.
Caton said he saw the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off and pretty much gutting him."
Bush declares progress in Iraq war
President Bush hailed a new "degree of durability" in security gains in Iraq Thursday, saying it should permit him to announce further U.S. troop reductions later this year.
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