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Afghanistan peace negotiator killed in bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb killed a provincial peace negotiator and two police officers in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, dealing another setback to President Hamid Karzai’s attempts to get talks started with Taliban militants...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Bombings, Emergency Incidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Survey: Many Muslims want sharia, but differ on what that means
In Afghanistan, Iraq and many other countries across the globe, most Muslims support making sharia, or Islamic law, the official law of the land, according to a sweeping survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. But sharia means different...
Tags: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Crime, Law and Justice, Asia, Belief and Faith
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Carrier returns to San Diego after assisting troops in Afghanistan
For every community there are iconic moments that speak to the civic essence. For San Diego those moments are the worrisome departure of Navy and Marine units for far-off war zones and then, months later, their joyous return. And so it was Monday as...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Five of seven dead in Afghan plane crash from Michigan
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Five of seven people killed in the crash of a civilian plane at an airfield in Afghanistan were from Michigan, an official of a Florida-based air cargo company said Monday night. The plane crashed just after taking...
Tags: Politics, Transportation Industry, Detroit Free Press, Boeing Co., Taliban
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Wounded veterans' partners get scholarships to UMUC
Two weeks after Beverly Poyer married her husband in 2007, he was deployed to Afghanistan. When he came home a year later, she was thrust into a role she hadn't expected: caregiver. Army Spc. Max Poyer, exposed to frequent mortar blasts in Afghanistan,...
Tags: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of Defense, Financial Aid, Colleges and Universities
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Notre Dame grad killed in Afghanistan plane crash
WSBT has learned Captain Reid Nishizuka – a 2005 Notre Dame graduate – was one of four airmen who died in a plane crash near Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan Saturday. The 30 year old is from Hawaii. KGMB, the CBS affiliate there, reports...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents
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Fort Leonard Wood on notice as US Army plans to cut 80,000 soldiers
jkaplan@kspr.comWAYNESVILLE, Mo -- The US Army plans slash 80,000 military positions from its bases and forts around the world. Officials at the Pentagon tell KSPR News the plan, called "Army 2020", will save approzimately $4.5 billion. The Army's proposed action -...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Armed Forces, U.S. Army
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Seven civilians killed in cargo plane crash at Afghan air base
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Seven civilians were killed aboard a U.S.-contracted cargo plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Bagram air field in Afghanistan on Monday, according to the international military coalition. The cause of the crash has not...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Accidental Death, Kabul (Afghanistan), Woodbridge
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Broward County needs to let Afghanistan-bound soldier off jury duty assignment
Unfortunately, few people want to serve on a jury, but even less have a good reason not to. That is not the case for Brandon Klein, who recently received a notice to appear for jury duty in Broward County. His excuse not to appear is a pretty darn...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Broward County
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Air Force staff sergeant from California is killed in Afghanistan
An Air Force staff sergeant from a base in Northern California has been killed in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Sunday. Richard A. Dickson, 24, of Rancho Cordova, east of Sacramento, was among four Air Force personnel killed...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Military Equipment, Armed Forces
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The Bush legacy
Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that "a great man is one sentence." Presidents, in particular. The most common "one sentence" for George W. Bush (whose legacy is being reassessed as his presidential library opens) is: "He kept us safe." Not quite right....Tags: Wars and Interventions, NATO, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), International Military Interventions, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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At Johns Hopkins, friends remember slain diplomat's zest, compassion
Friends and former classmates gathered Saturday at Johns Hopkins University to remember Anne Smedinghoff, a Foreign Service officer who was killed in a bombing in Afghanistan earlier this month, sharing stories of a too-short life marked by adventure....Tags: Bombings, Anne Smedinghoff, Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities, River Forest
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