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MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country’s drug war.
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Two men from the Detroit area were arrested in Amsterdam on a flight arriving from Chicago, reportedly suspected of assessing the aviation system for a potential future terror attack.
The two men did not have prohibited items on them, a law enforcement official told Fox News, saying that although knives were found in their checked luggage, [...]

MEXICO CITY — A wounded migrant stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to a gruesome scene, what may be the biggest massacre so far in Mexico’s bloody drug war: a room strewn with the bodies of 72 fellow travelers, some piled on top of each other, just 100 miles from their goal, the [...]

American taxpayers will pay the imam behind plans for a mosque near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks $3,000 in fees for a three-nation outreach trip to the Middle East that will cost roughly $16,000, the State Department said Wednesday.
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SINGAPORE/MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Russian oil giant LUKOIL (LKOH.MM: Quote) has resumed gasoline sales into Iran in partnership with China’s state-run firm Zhuhai Zhenrong, even as the United States urges the international community to be tough with Tehran.
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Iran has dug mass graves in which to bury U.S. troops in case of any American attack on the country, a commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard said today.
He added that a military strike would spark an ‘extensive war’ in the region.
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(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has some advice for the people of Earth - it’s time to get off.
“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space,” Hawking said to Big Think , a global forum that includes interviews with experts.
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The agenda of the United-Nations-funded and -run International Baccalaureate Curriculum is making massive inroads into America’s public schools, with operations already established in more than 1,000 locations.
Worldview Weekend President and Founder Brannon Howse says the program is trying to train American students to embrace an anti-Christian worldview.
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The most recent UN sanctions on Iran would trigger a nuclear holocaust if the US inspected the country’s ships come September, as called for in the June resolution. Only world pressure on US President Barack Obama could avert the conflagration that would bring all leading economies to a stand still, he warned.
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BEIJING: Floods and landslides across Asia plunged millions into misery Sunday as rubble-strewn waters killed at least 127 in northwestern China and 4 million Pakistanis faced food shortages amid their country’s worst-ever flooding.
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Deaths in Moscow have doubled to an average of 700 people a day as the Russian capital is engulfed by poisonous smog from wildfires and a sweltering heat wave, a top health official said Monday.
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LONDON (AP) — Online whistle-blower WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file named “Insurance” to its website, sparking speculation that those behind the organization may be prepared to release more classified information if authorities interfere with them.
Bloggers have noted that it’s 20 times larger than the batch of 77,000 secret U.S. military documents about Afghanistan [...]

Gene Tibbets, son of [Enola Gay pilot] Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., said the visit is an act of contrition that his late father would never have approved.
“It’s an unsaid apology,” Tibbets, 66, said Wednesday. “Why wouldn’t it be? Why would [Roos] go? It doesn’t make any sense.
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MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia, the world’s third wheat exporter, Thursday banned grain exports for the next four-and-a-half months due to a record drought that has destroyed millions of hectares (acres) of its land.
Wheat futures shot up to new two-year highs on commodities markets after the sudden announcement from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin raised concerns about [...]

Staff at the U.S. State Department removed the contentious advice to travellers, which included the phrase ‘racist prejudices could lead to the arrest of Afro-Americans who travel to Spain,’ from its website on Monday.
She is on a four-day visit and will be staying at the five-star Villa Padierna, rated as one of the world’s top [...]

Chinese media has announced several military drills over the past few weeks, including of naval forces. Such events are normally shrouded in secrecy and little reported on, but the military has recently said it is trying to be more open.
The increased activity comes as China and the United States have argued over joint U.S.-South Korean [...]

Despite President Obama’s pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.
Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region [...]

Julian Assange, the Australian founder of Wikileaks, has said he has been warned by “inside sources in the White House” not to return to the US as he could be arrested.
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William Dathan Holbert and Laura Michelle Reese were arrested by authorities as they attempted to make their way into Nicaragua via Costa Rica, officials said.
The two are wanted in connection with the deaths of seven fellow Americans in Panama, as well as two Panamanians, authorities said.
Holbert has reportedly confessed to the crimes.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes fired missiles, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people in five targets hit across Gaza overnight, the group and the military said Saturday.
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In a statement, President Barack Obama said Friday he spoke with the mothers earlier this week and acknowledged the families’ “suffering and advocacy.”
“I call on the Iranian government to immediately release Sarah, Shane and Josh,” Obama said. “Their unjust detention has nothing to do with the issues that continue to divide the United States and [...]

The Taliban has issued a warning to Afghans whose names might appear on the leaked Afghanistan war logs as informers for the Nato-led coalition.
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MEXICO CITY — One of the top three leaders of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel, Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel,” was killed Thursday in a gunbattle with soldiers, the Mexican army announced.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.
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Sen Bob Menendez, D-NJ, announced Tuesday that he is indefinitely postponing a hearing scheduled for Thursday that was to look into any possible connection between the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Baset al Megrahi, by the Scottish government, and BP being awarded a lucrative drilling contract off the coast of Libya, al Megrahi’s home [...]