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Militants in Pakistan sever Afghan supply link

PESHAWAR, Pakistan  – Suspected militants blew up a bridge in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber Pass on Tuesday, cutting the main route for supplies bound for Western forces in Afghanistan, Pakistani government officials said. Separately, security forces killed at least 35 Taliban insurgents and wounded many others in an attack Monday night …

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Afghan forces arrest suicide bomb cell, official says

KABUL  – Afghan security forces have arrested a group of Taliban militants they say were behind a series of suicide bomb strikes in the capital, Kabul, including one outside the German embassy, an intelligence official said on Tuesday. The group of 17 men, led by a 23-year-old Pakistani national, had …

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Pakistani police hunt for kidnapped U.N. official

QUETTA, Pakistan  – Pakistani police said on Tuesday they had rounded up about a dozen people for questioning in the search for a senior U.N. refugee agency official abducted in the city of Quetta. American John Solecki, head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the …

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FACTBOX: Afghan supply routes: problems and possibilities

Suspected Islamist militants blew up a bridge in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber Pass Tuesday, cutting the main route for supplies bound for Western forces in land-locked Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said. The easiest land route for supplies and military equipment into Afghanistan is by ship to the Pakistani port of Karachi, and …

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Iran: No Invitation Needed for Talks with US

TEHRAN (FNA)- This is not the Americans who should invite Iran to the negotiating table as Tehran has always been ready for talks while Washington shrugged off diplomacy in resolving Iran’s nuclear issue, Iranian parliament speaker said on Monday. “There is no need for anyone to invite us to the …

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Gov’t Spokesman: Capitalism in Acute Crisis

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham on Monday described the capitalist school of thought as the root cause of the present crisis in the West. “Capitalism has come to a serious crisis and has no way out,” Elham stressed. He further pointed to the remarks by the Late …

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FM: Middle East Issue Too Hard for Blair to Solve

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with Quartet Envoy Tony Blair that the Middle East issue is not easy to solve. “The reason for this claim is the 60-year-long continuity of the middle east story”, Mottaki added in his short conversation with the former British …

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