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Car bombing targets Lebanese troops, kills 5
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Forensic experts search for evidence in the bus wreckage at the site of explosion in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 29, 2008. A car bomb exploded Monday near a military bus carrying troops on their way to work in northern Lebanon, killing five people and injuring 26, Lebanese security officials said. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)AP - A remote control car bomb packed with ball bearings ripped through a military bus on Monday, killing four soldiers and a civilian in a city rocked by sectarian fighting, Lebanese officials said.


Commando raid frees tour group seized in Egypt
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AP - Egyptian and Sudanese troops rescued an abducted 19-member European tour group in an assault on the kidnappers in the remote Sahara borderland, officials said. The tourists and their Egyptian guides returned safely to Cairo on Monday.

US circles hijacked ship with Sudan-bound weapons
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In this picture released by U.S. Navy, Sunday,  Sept. 28, 2008, Somali pirates in small boats are seen alongside the hijacked 'Faina'.   The captain of a hijacked Ukrainian ship off the coast of Somalia says one crew member has died and he can see a U.S. ship about a mile from his freighter.  Viktor Nikolsky told The Associated Press that a Russian sailor died Sunday because of hypertension.  He was speaking from the deck of the Faina via a satellite phone. One of the pirates who seized the ship handed a satellite phone to Nikolsky so he could speak to the AP. Nikolsky says other crew members are fine and he can see three ships about a mile away, including one carrying an American flag.  The Faina is laden with Russian tanks destined for Kenya. Somali pirates hijacked it Thursday.  (AP Photo/U.S. Navy/ho)AP - U.S. warships and helicopters on Monday surrounded a hijacked cargo ship loaded with Sudan-bound tanks and other arms to keep the weapons from falling “into the wrong hands,” an American Navy spokesman said.


UN: Thousands flee violent Pakistani border area
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In this photo released by Inter Services Public Relations, Pakistan's army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, left, shakes hand with a tribal elder during his visit to troubled tribal region Bajur, Pakistan on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. Kayani expressed his satisfaction that local tribesmen have risen against miscreants and are fully supporting the troops, army said in a statement. (AP Photo/Inter Services Public Relations, HO)AP - A spike in violence along Pakistan’s border has driven tens of thousands of people to seek refuge in eastern Afghanistan, the U.N. reported Monday and new military data showed suicide attacks throughout the country killed nearly 1,200 people in the last 15 months.


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