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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death toll estimates, officials told The Associated Press.

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Maj. Gen. Robert B. Abrams says Afghans are rejecting the Taliban.

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? The idea behind the Tampa Women’s Club charity event was simple. For $20, you could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond.

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"Ghost money" ended up fueling warlords, the N. Y. Times reports.

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By Kevin Drawbaugh and Nanette Byrnes (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc’s chances of buying the 45-percent stake in Verizon Wireless owned by the UK’s Vodafone Group Plc will hinge, at least in part, on the quality of tax advice it is getting. Verizon, the No. 2 U. S. telecommunications company, may have found a way to structure a purchase of the stake so that Vodafone can avoid a multi-billion dollar U. S. capital gains tax bill, sources familiar with Verizon’s plans said. The possibility of a huge tax bill has previously been regarded by analysts as a big hurdle to any such deal. . . .

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ? Germany drug company Bayer AG says it intends to buy California-based Conceptus to expand its birth control offerings.

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Russian authorities told the U. S. they intercepted a phone call in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son.

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Bags of cash were sent to the office of President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, says the New York Times.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? A Dubai court has sentenced three British tourists to four years in prison on drug charges in a case that drew international scrutiny over claims of abuses in custody.

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The rigorous exercise regimen of an adorable red panda was recently caught on video and posted to Digital Spy. The small arboreal mammal, which lives at the Panda World reserve in Fuzhou, China, was practicing its pullups?on hoop rings similar to those used by Olympic gymnasts?in front of an enraptured crowd. We suspect the cuddly [. . . ]

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