LONDON – The resignation of a senior British general exposed a widening rift between the military leadership and Prime Minister Gordon Brown over how the war in Afghanistan is being fought.
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DUBAI – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden demanded that European nations withdraw their troops from Afghanistan in a new audio tape, saying they were sacrificing men and money in an unjust US-led war.
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BERLIN – German police said they had arrested a 25-year-old Turkish man they suspected of posting an al Qaeda Internet video threatening Germany with an attack after Sunday’s federal election.
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan – A U. drone aircraft killed 12 Afghan militants in a missile strike in Pakistan near the house of an Afghan Taliban commander allied to al Qaeda, intelligence officials and residents said.
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LONDON – European healthcare regulators recommended two swine flu vaccines for approval, clearing the way for mass vaccination programmes to start soon.
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JERUSALEM – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went on trial in Jerusalem on corruption charges, confidently predicting he would be acquitted of fraud, breach of trust and failure to report income.
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YANGON – Myanmar’s detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will support US plans to engage with the isolated nation but only if opposition groups are involved in any dialogue, her party said.
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UNITED NATIONS – Somalia’s president said his UN-backed government will resume talks soon with armed rebels and other factions to end violence in the Horn of Africa nation.
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