A roadside bomb hit a convoy of U.S.-led coalition troops on Tuesday in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, residents said. A spokesman for the coalition in the south confirmed that a blast struck a car in the convoy on the main road leading to the airport, just outside the Kandahar city, which is used by the coalition forces.The incident comes amid the bloodiest phase of insurgency led by Taliban guerillas since coalition troops overthrew the militants' government in 2001.The Islamist guerillas have stepped attacks in the south ahead of the NATO taking over from the U.S. forces and coalition troops have launched their biggest offensive in the region, since 2001 invasion, to crush the rebels and cut off their supply routes....
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 Soldiers deployed in New Orleans |
US soldiers are set to be redeployed on the streets of New Orleans to fight crime for the first time since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana governor asked for the National Guard to return to New Orleans after a weekend that saw six people murdered in the city. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had earlier called for 300 soldiers and some 60 state police to be sent to the city. Crime has risen in the city after a brief drop following Hurricane Katrina. The six deaths over the weekend raised the number of murders in New Orleans this year to 52, police said. That figure is less than half what it was a year ago - but the city's population is also only roughly half of what it was before Hurricane Katrina forced thousands from their homes last August. ...
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| US campaign to stop Venezuela joining UN security council |
The US has launched a diplomatic campaign to block Venezuela's bid to become a member of the United Nations security council out of concern that Hugo Chávez's government would use its seat to try to block punitive measures against Iran.Washington has publicly backed Guatemala's rival effort to take the two-year rotating council next year, but it has reportedly gone further in recent weeks - threatening retaliatory action against Latin American countries who support the Venezuelan bid. According to the Los Angeles Times, Chile is one of the countries under pressure. Washington has agreed to sell the country F-16 warplanes, but has since warned that Chilean pilots would not be trained to fly them if the government backed Venezuela's bid....
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| Palestinian workers receive wages |
Some Palestinian workers in the Gaza Strip have been paid $300 (£163), their first wages since a cut in Western aid. Up to 90,000 government workers are due to receive the payments, made available after Hamas officials carried cash into Gaza to circumvent the aid ban. The move came as an EU envoy met Israeli officials to outline plans to release 100m euros ($126m) of aid, bypassing the Hamas-led government. Hamas was meeting the rival Fatah faction for talks late on Monday night. The groups, which have clashed regularly in recent weeks, were discussing a referendum planned by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that would implicitly recognise the existence of Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a metal workshop in Gaza City early on Tuesday morning. The Israeli military said the workshop had been used by Hamas to make rockets and other weapons. No-one is believed to have been hurt in the strike, which comes ...
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| Mexican Authorities Arrest Man Wanted in the U.S. for Distributing Fake Documents |
Mexican authorities have arrested the leader of a far-flung ring that allegedly made and distributed forged immigration and identification documents in the U.S., American officials said Monday. Pedro Castorena, 42, was arrested Saturday in Guadalajara, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. The arrest of Castorena, who allegedly headed a ring that counterfeited and distributed such documents as resident alien cards, Social Security cards and American driver's licenses, "deals a serious blow to one of the largest fraudulent document organizations in the United States," said Julie Myers of the Department of Homeland Security. Castorena, who was indicted in Denver last July on charges of conspiracy, fraud, misuse of visas and money laundering, was located last month in Jalisco by ICE agents with the help of Mexican federal agents and state police. ...
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| Big cities reluctant to target illegals |
Despite a federal effort to enlist help from local police to catch illegal immigrants, some of the USA's biggest cities are declining to enforce immigration laws. Police chiefs, mayors and city councils are ordering local cops not to get involved as federal agents crack down on people in the country illegally. "Vulnerable people have always needed to see the police as being there to protect and serve, and that can't happen when the first words out of a cop's mouth are, 'I need to see your papers,' " Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been visiting police conventions in an effort to have departments join a voluntary program. ICE has trained officers in seven jurisdictions to identify, process and detain illegal immigrants, said Robert Hines, who heads the program started in 1996. Participants include state police in Alabama and Florida, the Arizona corrections department and sheriff's departments in ...
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