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Three foreign journalists reported detained in Iran
TEHRAN -- Iranian officials arrested a Japanese and two Canadian reporters during anti-government demonstrations this week and charged them with "unauthorized reporting," the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported Friday.
More than 25 troops wounded during search
More than 25 international and Afghan troops were wounded Friday in western Afghanistan -- possibly by friendly fire -- during a search operation for two U.S. Army paratroopers who had gone missing, according to the military.
U.S. is reaching out to East Asia's powerful nations
Ever since taking office, President Obama has signaled that the United States wants to improve relations with the powerhouse nations of East Asia, and he'll put his personal imprint on that when he travels to the region for the first time next week.
In base's town, lots of anger over 'evil' act
KILLEEN, TEX. -- They started lowering the flags to half-mast here before the Army had even finished counting the dead.
Pakistani army enters last Taliban bastion in S. Waziristan
The Pakistani army on Friday entered Makeen, the last of three insurgent strongholds targeted by a major offensive in the northwest, as gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a soldier in the capital, Islamabad.
Philosopher of taste
CHINON, FRANCE -- France has always been a nation of philosophers. Descartes contributed rigorous thinking. Montesquieu and Voltaire inspired democracy, and Sartre made it cool to despair. It was inevitable, sooner or later, that along would come Jacques Puisais, philosopher of taste.
Brown rebukes Karzai's government on corruption
LONDON -- Facing a sudden surge in public opposition to the war in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the government in Kabul, threatening to withhold additional British troops if it did not act swiftly to combat widespread corruption.
Zelaya: U.S.-brokered pact did not resolve crisis
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS -- Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.
Jacques Puisais
Born: Poitiers, France, 1927 Home: Chinon, France Founder: Institute of Taste, Paris
Abbas may give up Palestinian Authority post, but not power
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas may follow through on his vow this week not to run for reelection. But that hardly means he'll fade from the limelight.
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