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WWII-era mass grave discovered in Slovenia

ALI ZERDIN,Associated Press WriterLJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) - The bodies of about 700 people killed in the wake of World War II have been discovered in a mass grave in Slovenia, 65 years after they were herded into the woods and slain by antifascists seeking revenge on Nazi collaborators, an ...

AMIR SHAH,Associated Press WriterKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Seven American service members were killed Monday in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, NATO said.No details were given of the attacks, although eyewitnesses in the southern city of Kandahar said an armored U.S. ...

Iraq clears way for parliamentary elections

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi lawmakers approved plans Sunday to hold parliament elections early next year that are seen as an important step toward political reconciliation and easing the withdrawal of U.S. troops.The vote - during an emergency session convened just before a midnight deadline - ...

LONDON (AP) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has warned newspapers not to run unauthorized paparazzi photos of the royal family, Buckingham Palace said Sunday.The palace said a lawyer for the British monarch wrote to newspaper editors about six weeks ago telling them not to publish intrusive ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.Given a chance Sunday to clear away some of the mystery surrounding the ...

Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote

GENEVA (AP) - Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the iconic mosque towers in a surprise vote that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash against a growing Muslim population.Muslim groups in Switzerland and ...