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April 11th, 2009

Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars Civilians Reassert Themselves in US Foreign Policy
New Bid to Find Missing Ex-FBI Agent Allies Ponder How to Plan Elections in Afghanistan
Peruvian Rebels Kill 13 Troops in Coca Region Arrests Deepen Iraqi Sunnis' Bitterness
US Seeks New Tack on Myanmar GAO Says Military Expansion Will Tax Guam's Infrastructure
Newly Returned Soldiers Find Help With Transition Ten NATO Supply Containers Torched in Pakistan
Separatists May Take Part in Indian Elections for Kashmir Mysterious Tour of Duty for Iraqi Gun of Questionable Value
Indiana Family Holds Hope 4 Years After Iraq Abduction Death of Journalism's Queensberry Rules
Somalia: Puntland Court Sends 10 Pirates to 20 Years in Jail Iran Accuses Netherlands of Plotting Against Islamic Regime
Security Alert in Islamabad Amid Threats UK Minister Says US Foreign Policy on Pakistan Is Damaging Britain
Sri Lanka Conflict: Harrowing Stories of Captured Female Fighters Talks to Free Captain From Somali Pirates Collapse
UK: Quick's Error Forced Seizure of Pakistan Suspects 'Weeks Ahead of Schedule' Revealed: Pakistan's 'Cottage Industry' in Forged Documents Sought by Terrorists
Vatican Blocks Caroline Kennedy Appointment as US Ambassador Rescued French Yacht Captain May Have Died in Friendly Fire
You Stopped Us From Vetting People, Says Pakistan Envoy to Brits Tibetans Refuse to Sow Spring Crops in Protest Against Beijing
UK Doctors Discover Iraqi Girl Has 80 Bits of Shrapnel Inside Her Pakistan President Concerned Over Balochistan Situation
Pakistan: Film Maker Freed After Four Months, Kidnappers Detained Pakistan Parliament to Discuss Swat Peace Accord
Swat Taliban Chief Vows to Lay Down Arms if Sharia Regulation Signed 11 Killed, Property Worth Millions Ransacked in Pakistan
Israeli Military Violates Lebanese Sovereignty Lebanon: 220 Spanish Peacekeepers Set to Arrive in Beirut
Hamas, Fatah Discuss Ending Mutual Crackdown on Supporters Haifa Terror Victim Dies 7 Years After Attack
India: Maoist Rebels Kill 10 Policemen in Chhattisgarh Sudan Islamist Unwilling to Run for President
Losing Candidate Rejects Algerian Presidential Result Iranian Women Can Stand for President: Watchdog
Iran Accuses Netherlands of Overthrow Plot: Report Differences With US on Mideast 'Semantic': Israel
New Fallujah Video Game Infuriates Some Military Families Key Dates in Thailand's Political Unrest
Georgia Opposition Leader Has Sights on Presidency Hundreds of Irregularities in Indonesia Vote
Australia's PM: Fiji Virtually a Military Dictatorship Pakistan Pledges UK Terror Help
Japan Party Leader Ozawa Tells Mccain He Opposes Obama's Afghanistan Troop Surge Cost of Iraq War Will Surpass Vietnam's by Year's End
Text From UN Security Council Draft Statement on North Korea Some 100,000 Demand Sri Lanka Ceasefire in UK March
UN Draft Demands Enforcement of North Korea Sanctions UN Powers Agree to Condemn North Korea Rocket Launch
As Marines' Exit Gathers Pace, Some Iraqis Fret Iraq, Turkey and US Step Up Intel-Sharing on PKK
As Marines' Exit Gathers Pace, Some Iraqis Fret US Navy Snookered in Pirate Hostage Drama
Somali Pirates a Far Cry From Buccaneers of Old Tiananmen 20 Years Later: A Survivor's Story
UN Debates Condemning North Korea Launch Blogger Becomes Casualty of Iran Cyber-Wars
Israeli Jets Scramble to Escort Delta Flight Protesters Force Thailand to Cancel Asia Summit
Saturday: 15 Iraqis Killed, 35 Wounded Thousands in London Tamil Protest March
One-Way Flight to Afghan Outback 66 Afghan Taliban Killed in Raids
Pakistan Taliban Consolidates Buner Valley Hold Lavrov: Ties With US on Good Track, Russia Won't Increase Pressure on Iran
Iranian Bloggers Fight Back in Open Letter to Khamenei US Muslim Organization Calls on Iran to Release Journalist
Indonesian Second Largest Party Says Not Trust Quick Count Results of Poll Images of Frail Kim Jong Il Renew Talk of Succession
Moldovan President: Organizers of Violence Must Be Called to Account Sri Lankan Media Ban 'A Disgrace,' Says Rights Group
Sri Lanka Protest: Tamil Hunger Striker Suspends Fast in London Georgian President Faces 3rd Day of Protests
Obama Signs Waiver to Allow PLO to Retain Office in DC Iraqi MP: Art Gallery Raid in Karbala Unconstitutional
Suicide Bomber Kills 12 Sunni Militiamen in Iraq UK Terror Suspects Worked for Airport Cargo Company
Five Palestinians Suffocated in Gaza Tunnel PA: Either Israel Declares It Backs Palestinian State, or No Talks
Key Dutch Party: Sanctions Against Israel if It Thwarts Peace Egyptian Police Kill Driver of Munitions Truck Headed for Gaza
US Declines to Take Position on Georgia Protests US Members of Somalia Extremists Urge Recruitment
Moldova Claims Proof of Romania Role in Riots Nigeria Oil Unrest 'Kills 1,000' Last Year
Is Gates Channeling Cheney on Iraq With 'Last Gasp' Remark? Pirates Hijack Second US Vessel
Who Are the Somali Pirates? 'I'm a Successful Somali Pirate' - Yassin's Story
Portugal Joins Pirate Hunt in Perilous Gulf of Aden 6 Found Dead as Riots Continue in Pakistan
US Ships Block Help for Pirates Holding US Captain What About the Filipinos? Somali Piracy Focus Seen as Hypocritical
UK Police Release 1 Man Arrested in Terror Raids Two Turkish Soldiers, 7 Kurd Rebels Die in Clashes
Somali Pirate Attack Foiled by Water-Hoses UK Police Get More Time to Question Terrorism Suspects
Somali Pirates in German Ship Fail to Find Comrades; France Frees Yacht Iraqi PM Welcomes Russian Business
Maoist Rebels Kill 10 Policemen in Central India Moldovan Court Postpones Election Recount Request
Afghan Cleric Defends Contentious Marriage Law British Raids Suggest 'Blowback' From Pakistan
PM: Japan Near Deal With China on North Korea Message Palestinians: Israel Must Back 2-State Solution
Up to 5,000 Rally Against Georgia's Saakashvili Christian Housing Faces Israeli Encirclement
Four Killed, Two Bombs Recovered in Northeast India North Korean Defectors Staggered by South
Suicide Bomber Kills 9 Sunni Fighters in Iraq Thailand's 'Red Shirts' Revel After Summit Shutdown
Pirates Seize US-Owned, Italy-Flagged Tugboat Iran Says It Controls Entire Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Spain Says Basque Separatist ETA Suspect Arrested Fiji President Reappoints Former Coup Leader as PM
Kashmiri Separatist Leader to Contest India Election Contractor Must Pay in Iraq Fraud, Court Rules
Amid Protests, Asian Summit Is Canceled

April 10th, 2009

Russia Test-Fires Intercontinental Missile Horn of Africa Beset by Troubles
Algeria's Bouteflika Wins 3rd Presidential Term, Opposition Calls Fraud Bolivia's Morales Keeps Up Hunger Strike
US Warship With Helicopters Joins Pirate Standoff Spiegel Interview with Ahmadinejad: 'We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible'

April 9th, 2009

Body of Fallen New York Marine Arrives at Dover Air Force Base Virginia Soldier With Ties to New Hampshire Remembered by Friends and Family
Marine Combat Photographer Killed in Iraq (TN) Sadness Comes to San Lorenzo (PR) for Soldier Killed in Iraq

April 8th, 2009

Buffalo (NY) Soldier Collapses, Dies in Iraq

April 7th, 2009

Family Mourns Hopewell (VA) Airman Slain in Afghanistan
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