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AP - The Taliban have claimed responsibility for Thursday’s suicide car bomb in the Afghan capital, saying their target was the Indian Embassy.

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Taliban claim Afghan bomb, say embassy was target
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AFP - A huge suicide car bomb struck near the Indian embassy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 83 in the latest in a wave of deadly attacks on the Afghan capital, officials said.

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At least 12 dead in Kabul blast near Indian embassy
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Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama’s special peace envoy George Mitchell said on Thursday he was seeking a quick resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks, but Israel voiced pessimism on prospects for a deal.

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Mitchell seeks "early relaunch" of Mideast talks
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AP - Honduras’ coup-installed leader resisted calls by diplomats from across the hemisphere to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya, at one point angrily telling the visitors they “don’t know the truth or don’t want to know it.”

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Interim Honduran leader resists diplomats’ pleas
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AP - An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terror attack in New York City contacted accomplices there while making a cross-country drive from Denver, raising concerns among investigators that he was sending instructions to purchase more bomb-making chemicals, officials familiar with the case said.

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AP sources: FBI eyes terror suspect’s travel talk
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AFP - Poland’s eurosceptic president will sign the European Union’s Lisbon treaty on Sunday, a senior official said Thursday, making ratification in the Czech Republic the last major hurdle for the treaty.

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Poland to sign EU’s Lisbon treaty Sunday: ministry
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Reuters - A combative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, said on Thursday he would keep governing with “even more grit” after Italy’s top court lifted his immunity and said he would show that corruption charges against him were “laughable.”

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Berlusconi vows to stay, tension worries analysts
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AP - An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior al-Qaida operative, intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.

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Sources: Terror suspect contacted senior al-Qaida
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AP - David Letterman, days after revealing on air that he’d been sexually involved with women from his television program, apologized to his wife on Monday’s “Late Show,” saying she had been “horribly hurt by my behavior.”

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Jokes, apologies from David Letterman on his show
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AP - Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin — revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb — and say the experiment proves the relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday.

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Italian group claims to debunk Shroud of Turin
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