SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 12 (OneWorld) - Two veterans groups filed a class
action lawsuit this week to help ensure bureaucratic delays no longer
keep disabled U.S. veterans from getting the financial help they need,
when they need it most.
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BAGHDAD - An Iraqi soldier Wednesday sprayed automatic weapons fire at U.S. soldiers at an Iraqi military base in Mosul, killing two and wounding six before he died in a hail of bullets, a U.S. general said. In Baghdad,…
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13 Nov 2008, 1712 hrs IST,PTI JAMMU: The VHP on Thursday announced a countrywide agitation against the arrest of religious leaders in Malegaon blast case, accusing the UPA of a hatching a conspiracy to implicate “nationalist organisations and Hindu seers” in…
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KABUL - A suicide car-bomber attacked a convoy of U.S.-led troops in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday killing 11 people, including a U.S. soldier, and wounding 58, the U.S. military said. Earlier, a U.S. military spokesman said 20 people had been killed in the attack on the outskirts of the eastern city of Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan. Afghanistan is facing its worst spell of violence this year, the bloodiest…
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13 Nov 2008, 1504 hrs IST, PTI Text: SRINAGAR: High altitude areas of Kashmir valley, including the famous Ski resort of Gulmarg on Thursday received the first snowfall of the season while…
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Kinshasa - There are growing fears in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the Nord-Kivu conflict could escalate, with the potential to bring violence to the normally far-removed capital Kinshasa. With rebel leader Laurent Nkunda threatening to oust the government unless it agrees to direct negotiations, and the United Nations hesitating to send more peacekeepers, people in Kinshasa are increasingly concerned about the conflict. “The blood of our brothers has been shed enough,” said post office worker Tina, 30, referring to the violence going on more than 1 500km away. “The government must negotiate with the CNDP (Nkunda’s National Congress for the Defence of the People) in order to avoid…
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — An Iranian diplomat was kidnapped and his bodyguard killed Thursday morning in northwest Pakistan, a police source told CNN. Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, the commercial attache at the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, was abducted by at least four gunmen while traveling from his home to the Hayatabad section of the city, where the consulate is located, said Mashallah Shakiri, the Iranian consul general for the North West Frontier Province. On Wednesday, gunmen shot and killed an American aid worker in Peshawar. He was identified as Stephen D. Vance by his employer, the Cooperative Housing Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works in about 30 countries. Don’t…
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Kilimanyoka - The road that leads into rebel-controlled Congo begins with a makeshift roadblock made from the corpses of two government soldiers strewn across the dark volcanic earth. The pair on Wednesday blocked the main two-lane track running north from the regional capital, Goma - one with a bullet in his forehead and a frozen fist grasping the air above. The scene was meant as a warning to government troops just a few hundred yards down the road whom the rebels had battled the night before. And for the few fearful civilians trickling past the frontline, it was clear message that Congo’s savage war is not easing amid fears it could draw in Angola and others in the region. “We don’t want…
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Nov 13, 2008 7:37 PM Twenty Afghan civilians and a US soldier were killed in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, a spokesman for the US military said….
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South Korean companies in the joint-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex are worried Wednesday’s threat by the North to cut off cross-border transport will mean they have to shut down production. A staffer with…
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