suicide bomber has attacked a police checkpoint in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing at least five people, officials said.Unconfirmed reports put the death toll at seven with at least 25 others injured.Local media said a car laden with explosives had been driven into the checkpoint in the Pushta Khara area.Government official Sahibzada Muhammad Anis said the car exploded as police...
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KHAR, Pakistan (AP) - Officials say a group of militants has ambushed a van traveling near Khar, the main town in the Bajur tribal region. Two women teachers were killed and two other passengers were wounded.Local official Adalat Khan says militants hiding on both sides of a rural road sprayed the van with automatic weapons fire as it went past. The fighters then fled on motorcycles.Pakistan's Taliban...
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least seven paramilitary troops have been killed by a roadside bomb in north-west Pakistan, say officials.Eleven others were said to have been injured in the blast, which struck a routine patrol of troops in the Khyber tribal region.Elsewhere, officials said more than a dozen Islamist militants died in air strikes in the Orakzai tribal region.The latest attacks came as fierce fighting continued in...
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Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian man, and wounded another, near a border crossing with Gaza.Gazan medics said they retrieved the body of a 16-year-old boy, who they described as an unarmed civilian, near the Karni crossing.The Israeli military said they would investigate the incident but the group "appeared to be planting explosives".Clashes have been relatively rare in Gaza since Israel's...
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world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, now plans to hold on to customers even after they die - by selling coffins.Prices range from a "Mom" or "Dad Remembered" steel coffin for $895 (£540), to a bronze model at $2,899.The retailer is allowing customers to plan ahead by paying for the caskets over 12 months for no interest. They can be dispatched within 48 hours.Catering for cradle-to-grave needs, Wal-Mart...
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AP: Soldier in Uzbekistan, solar panel safety < ');" class="arial11blue1"> RateIf you decide to take advantage of those rays by putting solar panels on your roof, is there a chance they could be ripped off in a storm?Curiosity about solar panels and hurricanes inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the...
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Mike McQueen, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Louisiana and Mississippi, has died. He was 52.McQueen, who had been on medical leave since the spring, died Sunday from complications of cancer and congestive heart failure.McQueen's journalism career spanned three decades, including two stints with the AP and work on two Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper teams."Mike's passion for stories and...
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YORK (AP) — The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."The U.S. Justice Department...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.But the section's purpose is indisputable: to deliver $100 million or more in federal funds to the state. And in the process clear the way for one of three moderate Democratic fence-sitters — Ben Nelson...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.Despite the criticism, there were growing indications Democrats would prevail on an initial Senate showdown set for Saturday night, and Majority Leader...
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