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UN: world population to reach 8.1 billion in 2025
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report is forecasting that the world's population will increase from 7.2 billion today to 8.1 billion in 2025 and 9.6 billion in 2050. The report, released Thursday, said most of the population growth will occur in...Tags: United Nations
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Indiana withdraws support for fertilizer plant
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana officials withdrew state backing Friday for a fertilizer plant over concerns about whether its Pakistan-based owners are doing enough at its overseas operations to keep the potentially explosive material from being used...
Tags: Plant Openings, Fertilizer, Explosions, Economy, Business and Finance, Chemical Industry
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IU hiring of diving coach raises degree questions
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University's hiring of a decorated diving coach to help lead its renowned aquatics program is drawing fire from critics who say his bachelor's degree is bogus and that his selection sends the wrong message to...Tags: Employment, Justice System, College Sports, Environmental Issues, Crime, Law and Justice
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Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars
WASHINGTON (AP) — They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens. But the troops that launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy may never set foot in the combat zone. Now, defense officials...
Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense, Security, Viral Diseases and Infections
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US may leave no troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to contain al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces....
Tags: Hamid Karzai, Iraq, White House, Armed Conflicts, War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
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An insider attack: Trust cost 2 lives, including SW Mich. soldier
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a sneak attack, but not by the enemy they feared. U.S. Army Capts. Joshua Lawrence and Drew Russell were inside a small command post on an Afghan army base, wrapping up a long day of coordinating the safe arrival of nearly...
Tags: Rebellions, Military Equipment, Kabul (Afghanistan), Washington, DC, Taliban
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Activist girl's dad vows she'll return to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The father of a 15-year-old Pakistani activist girl who was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman vowed Thursday that she would return home after finishing medical treatment abroad despite new insurgent threats against her. Since...
Tags: Head Injuries, Taliban, Elizabeth II, Injuries and Wounds, BBC
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Taliban sent hit squad after teenage activist
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A spokesman for the Taliban's Swat Valley chapter says its leadership decided already two months ago to kill a 14-year-old activist, who was shot and seriously wounded this week — and then sent out a hit squad to carry...
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Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film
CERRITOS, Calif. (AP) — While the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East would likely face swift punishment in his native Egypt for making the film, in America the government is in the thorny position of...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Social Media, National Government, Crime, Law and Justice, University of Southern California
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Rights Watch: Evidence of wider US waterboarding
CAIRO (AP) — Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding than previously acknowledged by the CIA, in a report Thursday detailing brutal treatment of detainees at U.S.-run lockups abroad after the 9/11 attacks....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights, Prisons, United Kingdom
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SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden's death
WASHINGTON (AP) — A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Military Justice, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Book, Barack Obama
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Pakistan police investigating girl for blasphemy
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities arrested a Christian girl and are investigating whether she violated the country's strict blasphemy laws after furious neighbors surrounded her house and demanded police take action, a police officer said...Tags: Trials, Christianity, Salman Taseer, Crime, Law and Justice, Asif Ali Zardari
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