AP Top International News
Saturday July 31, 2010, 12:30 AM, MDT
US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ROBERT H. REID </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T06:24:43Z">2010-07-31T06:24:43Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war....</div>
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Kingpin's death could mean more violence in Mexico
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ALEXANDRA OLSON </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T01:59:27Z">2010-07-31T01:59:27Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">MEXICO CITY (AP) -- One of the world's most powerful drug cartels took a major hit when soldiers killed a top kingpin in a gunbattle, and his death will likely will mean more violence as factions fight for the cocaine and methamphetamine empire that he left behind....</div>
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Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas rocket maker
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">IBRAHIM BARZAK </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T05:51:46Z">2010-07-31T05:51:46Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli warplanes fired missiles at five targets across Gaza, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people, the group said Saturday....</div>
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Mexico's TV channel cancels show after kidnappings
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T03:42:14Z">2010-07-31T03:42:14Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's biggest television network canceled a popular news show to protest the kidnapping of four reporters, abductions that media advocates called an escalation of a campaign by drug gangs to control information....</div>
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Castro accuses US of torture in 'Cuban Five' case
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">WILL WEISSERT </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T03:26:10Z">2010-07-31T03:26:10Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro accused U.S. authorities of torturing a convicted Cuban spy, telling a meeting of communist youths that the agent had been placed in solitary confinement in California....</div>
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Chinese activists speak out for jailed Uighur
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T05:08:16Z">2010-07-31T05:08:16Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">BEIJING (AP) -- Some of China's most well-known activists are circulating an open letter protesting the 15-year prison term for a Uighur journalist snared in tensions that followed the country's worst ethnic rioting in decades....</div>
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Chavez: Venezuela has deployed troops amid spat
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T02:55:14Z">2010-07-31T02:55:14Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said he has deployed troops and air units in case of a conflict with neighboring Colombia....</div>
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Explosion at coal mine kills at least 15 in China
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">CARA ANNA </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T03:33:23Z">2010-07-31T03:33:23Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">BEIJING (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a workers' dormitory area and killed at least 15 people Saturday at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters....</div>
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Out of pilots, Philippine airline grounds flights
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-31T03:34:38Z">2010-07-31T03:34:38Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Good morning, passengers, and welcome aboard. We're expecting clear skies today, but we're out of pilots....</div>
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Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ELAINE GANLEY </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-07-30T21:24:28Z">2010-07-30T21:24:28Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">PARIS (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a "national war" on delinquency....</div>
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