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Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 5

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say at least five people have been killed in a suicide car bombing in northwest Pakistan.



Army spokesman Maj. Mushtaq Khan says the attacker detonated the car bomb near a security checkpoint in the Swat district.



Police official Mohammed Anfal says nearly two dozen people were also wounded in Saturday's attack.



The Pakistani military launched a major offensive in Swat early last year after peace deals with local Taliban collapsed.



The military took back the Swat Valley by mid-2009, but sporadic violence has continued.

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Anti-government protesters head for Bangkok

March 13, 2010

BANGKOK (AP) — Thousands of red-shirted, anti-government demonstrators converged on the Thai capital from the north and northeast Saturday, vowing to oust the government in a mass, do-or-die display...

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Pope under fire for transfer, letter on sex abuse

March 13, 2010

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job...

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2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive

March 13, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains...

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Report: NKorea to rejoin nuclear talks in April

March 13, 2010

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday.

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Iraq PM uses early lead to pursue new govt allies

March 13, 2010

BAGHDAD (AP) — Seizing on an early lead in Iraq's election, the prime minister's political coalition began reaching out to rivals Friday as partial results signaled a tight race that was unlikely to...

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