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Pakistani troops backed by tanks and fighter jets Thursday killed as many as 100 militants in a restive northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said. Pakistani forces have for weeks been targeting militant positions in Bajaur tribal ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- , R-Calif., is urging a pardon for two jailed U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks. 'These men, as well as their families, have suffered enough,' Duncan said Thursday after ...

LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he'll discuss a new approach to policing the Afghan-Pakistan border in talks with U.S. President George W. Bush.Brown said the two leaders were holding a video conference on Thursday to assess the work of ...

has not taken a position on the borders of a future Palestinian state. 'While the discussions between the parties are confidential, we can state that the parties have not in any way prejudiced long held views on borders,' the US State Department said in ...

Islamabad, Sep 11 (PTI) In an unusually strong public statement, Pakistan's army chief has lashed out at the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan over the cross-border raids in the tribal belt and vowed to defend the country's sovereignty and ...

MEXICO CITY, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Cuba and Mexico are discussing how to clamp down on the flow of illegal Cuban immigrants through Mexico to the United States, Cuba's Ambassador Manuel Aguilera said on Thursday. Aguilera said the two countries could reach ...

A man pleaded guilty Thursday to running an organization that authorities said smuggled dozens of illegal immigrants per day through a live bombing range in southeastern California.Javier Sanchez Perfino, 30, acknowledged running a group from 2003 to ...

PRESIDENT George Bush has secretly approved orders that for the first time allow American special forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials. The ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) ? Arkansas' colleges and universities can admit illegal immigrants, the Arkansas attorney general's office says. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said in an advisory opinion Wednesday that schools don't have a duty to verify the ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Cuba and Mexico are discussing how to clamp down on the flow of illegal Cuban immigrants through Mexico to the United States, Cuba's Ambassador Manuel Aguilera said on Thursday. Aguilera said the two countries could reach an ...