KABUL - The No. 2 commanding general in Afghanistan acknowledged Wednesday that a NATO-led attack the day before in eastern Afghanistan possibly resulted in civilian deaths. The statement that some civilians might have been killed in the attack come
Police in two-largest metropolitan areas have killed 11,000 people since 2003, many of them extrajudicial executions that were later covered up by officers, Human Rights Watch said in a released Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro.The report two years in t
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Gunmen on motorcycles ambushed and killed Honduras' top anti-drug official in the capital Tuesday, just two months before he planned to retire and move to Canada. Former army Gen. Julian Aristides Gonzalez, director of the Of
RIO DE JANEIRO - Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Few of the officers have been charged in the extra
KABUL - The Afghan government said NATO forces killed six civilians during a pre-dawn operation Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan. NATO disputed the allegation saying only militants died. Seven insurgents were killed and four detained after the attack
BLANTYRE, Malawi - A police official says a 1-year-old child has died in Malawi following a series of earthquakes in the southern African country. Karongo police spokesman Enock Levason said that the toddler died Tuesday when a kitchen collapsed, an
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A former Indonesian army colonel has told a magazine that soldiers deliberately killed five Western journalists in East Timor in 1975 — contradicting the government's longstanding assertion that the deaths were accidental.
BEIJING - Chinese media say eight students have been killed and 26 others injured in a school stampede in the central province of Hunan. The reports say the students were leaving evening study sessions at 9:10 p.m. Monday night at Xiangxiang city's
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