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Pakistani troops feel West undervalues their war

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
KALPANI BASE, Pakistan (AP) -- The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) up a mountain on one of the world's most inhospitable borders....

AP Enterprise: Nuke evacuation fatal for old, sick

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
MINAMI-SOMA, Japan (AP) -- The doctors and nurses at Futaba Hospital pleaded for help as a radioactive plume wafted over their hospital. They had been ordered out but had no vehicles to evacuate the hundreds of patients in their care. After two days of waiting in the cold with no electricity, help finally came....

Pakistan's top court targets army

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's powerful military establishment is under rare scrutiny from the country's top court, which after a gap of 16 years has opened an investigation into allegations the army funneled money to politicians to influence elections....

Protesters gather in Moscow for opposition rally

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
MOSCOW (AP) -- Up to 10,000 protesters flocked to a central Moscow avenue Saturday to demand Vladimir Putin's resignation and protest electoral fraud....

3 killed in 3rd day of Gaza-Israel violence

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Cross-border fighting between Gaza and Israel, touched off by Israel's killing of a top militant leader, showed no signs of letting up on its fourth day....

UK police practice torch relay

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
LONDON (AP) -- London police have staged a mock run to show off their skills in dealing with anyone who might want to disrupt the Olympic torch relay....

Egypt disqualifies another presidential candidate

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
CAIRO (AP) -- The state-run news agency says Egypt's election panel has disqualified another presidential hopeful because of a new law that strips former regime officials of the right to run for office....

Egypt parliament to consider cutting off US aid

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's parliament moved Sunday toward a vote to order an end to more than $1 billion in U.S. aid, a reflection of tensions with Washington over the case of Americans charged with illegal activity by their pro-democracy groups....

AP Enterprise: Nuke evacuation fatal for old, sick

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
MINAMI-SOMA, Japan (AP) -- The doctors and nurses at Futaba Hospital pleaded for help as a radioactive plume wafted over their hospital. They had been ordered out but had no vehicles to evacuate the hundreds of patients in their care. After two days of waiting in the cold with no electricity, help finally came....

Afghanistan joins railroad era _ 100 years late

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- More than a century ago, fearing that his country might be swallowed up in the Great Game rivalry between the British empire to the east and the Russian army to the north, an Afghan king made a radical decision: He banned railroads....

Afghanistan joins railroad era _ 100 years late

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- More than a century ago, fearing that his country might be swallowed up in the Great Game rivalry between the British empire to the east and the Russian army to the north, an Afghan king made a radical decision: He banned railroads....

Official: Toll in Israel Gaza strikes 12 militants

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Palestinian health official says the death toll from a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza strip has risen to 12 militants....

Pakistan's top court targets army

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's powerful military establishment is under rare scrutiny from the country's top court, which after a gap of 16 years has opened an investigation into allegations the army funneled money to politicians to influence elections....

Pakistan's top court targets army

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's powerful military establishment is under rare scrutiny from the country's top court, which after a gap of 16 years has opened an investigation into allegations the army funneled money to politicians to influence elections....

Afghanistan joins railroad era _ 100 years late

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- More than a century ago, fearing that his country might be swallowed up in the Great Game rivalry between the British empire to the east and the Russian army to the north, an Afghan king made a radical decision: He banned railroads....

Attacker in Afghan uniform kills US soldier

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot dead a U.S. soldier in the east of the country, one of two NATO troops killed on Friday, military officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack....

2 Afghan police, 3 insurgents killed in attack

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan police official says insurgents attacked a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan and that two border policemen and three attackers were killed in the ensuing firefight....

AP Enterprise: Nuke evacuation fatal for old, sick

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
MINAMI-SOMA, Japan (AP) -- The doctors and nurses at Futaba Hospital pleaded for help as a radioactive plume wafted over their hospital. They had been ordered out but had no vehicles to evacuate the hundreds of patients in their care. After two days of waiting in the cold with no electricity, help finally came....

Reports: Chinese police kill Tibetan man, wound 2

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
BEIJING (AP) -- Police in western China fatally shot a Tibetan man and wounded two others amid protests against Chinese rule, an activist group and a U.S. broadcaster said Saturday....

Reports: Chinese police kill Tibetan man, wound 2

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 09:31
BEIJING (AP) -- Police in western China fatally shot a Tibetan man and wounded two others amid protests against Chinese rule, an activist group and a U.S. broadcaster said Saturday....
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