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Taliban Chief Is Dead, Pakistani Officials Say

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Feb. 10) -- Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has died, the country's top civilian security official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. It was the government's first ...

Saudi Arabia Shifts Course on Child Marriage

11 hours 59 minutes ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 9) – For the first time, the Saudi Arabian state has intervened in the marriage of a preteen girl to an older man, leading some campaigners to speculate that the kingdom could be about to ...

Iran Vs. the West: The Factors at Play

12 hours 26 minutes ago |AOL News

(Feb. 9) – As Iran moves farther down the road toward nuclear armament and the United States seeks to rally the world for an economic deterrent, how well is either side achieving what it wants? ...

Iconic French Philosopher Falls for Literary Hoax

15 hours 34 minutes ago |AOL News

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NICE, France (Feb. 9) – France's most famous celebrity philosopher, the flashy Bernard-Henri Lévy, likes to be at the center of intellectual discourse in Paris, where he can count on at ...

China Breaks Up School for Hackers

17 hours 5 minutes ago |AOL News

(Feb. 9) -- Ever since Chinese hackers' apparently concerted attack on Google and 34 other U.S. companies was made public last month, American politicians and business leaders have been calling on th ...

Cuba Looks to Private Farms to Boost Economy

1 day 15 hours ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 8 ) – Cuban President Raul Castro has announced a five-year plan that he hopes will ease the country's economic problems and reliance on food imports. Echoing some of his previous attempt ...

Essay: Haiti's Story Rolls On as Journalists Roll Out

20 hours 8 minutes ago |AOL News

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Emily Troutman is writing a series of dispatches from Haiti for AOL News. Follow her on Twitter. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Feb. 9) -- If other disasters are any guide, journalists will soon begin re ...

Hideous Baby Makes Artistic Statement

18 hours 35 minutes ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 9) -- Some people look at the human body and see beauty. Others look just a little too closely. Artist Ron Mueck has created a stir with his ultra-real sculptures depicting giant wrinkled bab ...

Iran and UK Get in a Spat Over an Ancient Artifact

18 hours 44 minutes ago |AOL News

(Feb. 9) -- Iran and Britain differ on plenty of issues, not least Tehran's determination to ratchet up its nuclear program. But now the two countries have fallen out over an artifact some 2,500 year ...

Toyota Announces Massive Prius Recall

22 hours 19 minutes ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 9) -- Toyota Motor Corp. issued another recall and another apology today, calling 437,000 of its once-prized 2010 Priuses and other hybrid models back to dealerships worldwide over a brake prob ...

Villagers Flee as US Preps for Huge Helmand Battle

1 day ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 9) – U.S. Marines and their NATO allies are gearing up for a major assault on Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan, in what could be the largest counterinsurgency operation there sin ...

Defying Sanctions Threat, Iran Starts Enriching Uranium

20 hours 53 minutes ago |AOL News

(Feb. 9) – After weeks of mixed signals and with sanctions against it looming, Iran says it has begun producing higher-grade nuclear fuel for a research reactor – in defiance of the West, ...