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• Afghan tribal leader set for drug trial in U.S.
In the four months we spent inside Corcoran, our producers saw violence erupt many times, though never between inmates and officers. But as we neared the end of our stay, no one foresaw that the greatest threat to Corcoran staff might come from an ...
• U.S. to review Afghan deaths after alleged video
KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military said it planned to reopen an investigation into civilian deaths in a coalition air strike in western Afghanistan last month after new evidence emerged about casualties. The military did not say what new ...
• Witnesses: U.S. drones hit Taliban targets
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed at least six people on Monday in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, witnesses said. "There were two ...
• Russia to hold military exercise with Venezuela
The announcement was made just a week after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned that Russia would mount an unspecified response to recent U.S. aid shipments to Georgia.
• Oil swerves as Ike threatens Gulf of Mexico
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Oil prices slipped Monday as Hurricane Ike weakened over Cuba and the U.S. dollar strengthened. Ike, after scouring the Bahamas and Haiti, made landfall on Cuba as a Category 3 storm, but then lost speed and became a ...