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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made an unannounced visit to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Saturday to gauge the pace of progress toward stabilizing the country and defeating the insurgency.The trip was kept secret in advance to minimize the risk of attack on his entourage, which flew here on an Air Force C-17 cargo plane from Tblisi in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.It was Rumsfeld s second trip to Iraq in four months, refl
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Minsk, Belarusmdash; The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his troops are in their field camps, the president of Belarus claimed Thursday, raising new questions about the deal that ended the extraordinary challenge to President Vladimir Putin s rule. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko s claim could not be independently verified, and the Kremlin refused to comment on Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin s whereabouts.Where is Wagner s Prigozhin and why does it matter Russian media have said the Wagner chief was recently spotted at his offices in St. Petersburg, however, and pro-Kremlin outlets published photos Thursday purportedly taken inside a mansion belonging to Prigozhin in the c
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SAN VALENTIN, Guatemala A Guatemalan official said Friday there was no evidence that Mexico s most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, had been killed in a shootout in the rural north, calling such reports a misunderstanding.Officials have been eager to capture the infamous El C
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At the end of April, Pakistani officials told CBS News that 10 men linked to the Taliban had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the attempted assassination of teen activist Malala Yousafzai in the country s Swat province.Friday, however, it emerged that eight of those men were subsequently set free -- and may never have been convicted in the first place -- by a secret military court that found the evidence against them had gaps. Malala Yousafzai: Activist for education 32 photos
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