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• Pentagon: China cancels some military contacts
Global markets voted on America's $700 billion bailout plan Monday, and if market indices are a benchmark, there was widespread pessimism. Ned Colt reports from London. WASHINGTON - China has canceled some military contacts with the Pentagon as a ...
• U.S. military under attack in Mosul; 11 die
BAGHDAD - Eleven people, including women and children, were killed Sunday after U.S. forces came under attack by gunfire and a suicide bomber during a raid in Mosul, the military said. There were no casualties among American forces. Elsewhere in the ...
• N. Korea reportedly fires missiles into sea
SEOUL - North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the Yellow Sea on Tuesday in an operation considered to be part of regular military training, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a South Korean official as saying on Wednesday. "North Korea ...
• Iran forces down Hungarian plane
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran forced an aircraft carrying Hungarian military officials to land after it entered its airspace, Hungary's Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan after it was determined the entry was ...
• Military: Suicide bomber kills 27 in Sri Lanka
Oct. 3: Pakistan is struggling to maintain power in the Taliban stronghold of Bajour, where 8,000 Pakistani soldiers have been locked in battle for the past two months. NBC's Richard Engel reports. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A suspected rebel suicide ...