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Deposed Mauritanian president taken from his home (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 12:09 AM CST

AP - Security forces early Sunday forcibly removed Mauritania's recently deposed president from the village where he had been under house arrest, his daughter said.

2 1/2 tons of marijuana found in Afghan school (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 11:55 PM CST

AP - Afghan and coalition troops found and destroyed 2.5 tons of marijuana in an abandoned school in southern Afghanistan, while coalition troops killed four militants elsewhere in the south, officials said Sunday.

Gaza militants launch more rockets into Israel (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:27 AM CST

AP - Barrages of rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli towns Sunday and the Israeli air force responded with a missile strike as violence surged after the expiration of a shaky truce.

Report: 60 Sri Lankan soldiers killed in fighting (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:53 AM CST

AP - Tamil Tiger rebels killed 60 Sri Lankan troops advancing toward their de facto capital, a pro-rebel report said, but the government denied Sunday that many soldiers had died.

Australia lifts restrictions on ex-Gitmo detainee (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:14 AM CST

AP - Authorities on Sunday lifted the last remaining restrictions on an Australian man who spent more than five years as an inmate at Guantanamo Bay and admitted to supporting terrorism.

Chinese internet porn sensation detained by police (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 12:23 AM CST

Reuters - A Chinese woman who became an online sensation after posting a homemade pornographic film of herself on the internet has been detained in Shanghai, according to state media.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,210 (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 07:25 PM CST

AP - As of Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, at least 4,210 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Aging Castro still rules 50 years after revolution (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 08:24 PM CST

AP - In the palace of a fallen dictator, the grade-school kids in their red Communist Pioneer bandanas are getting their mandatory introduction to the glories of the revolution. Clattering from one display case to the next, they gaze wide-eyed at an antique gun, a fighter's bloodied shirt, the engine of a downed U.S. spy plane.

Mali govt says 20 killed in attack on army outpost (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 04:03 PM CST

AP - Suspected Tuareg rebels attacked an army outpost in the country's remote north early Saturday, setting off a battle in which 20 people were killed, the Ministry of Defense said.

Mumbai hostage hotels re-open (AFP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 02:54 AM CST

AFP - Two luxury hotels that were stormed by Islamist militants have re-opened in Mumbai, less than a month after devastating attacks that rocked India's financial and entertainment capital.