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 Friday, July 30, 2010 
 
    
 
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July is deadliest month for U.S. in Afghan war
Six U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 66 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.

Kabul rioters burn SUVs, yell 'Death to America'
Afghan police fired shots on Friday to disperse hundreds of people protesting the deaths of civilians in an accident reportedly involving a U.S. Embassy vehicle, officials said.

Taliban hinder NATO push to build government

The new Arghandab district chief Shah Mohammad Ahmadi speaks with an Afghan National Police officer following a security briefing at the district headquarters in the volatile Arghandab Valley near Kandahar City, Afghanistan. This strategic valley on the outskirts of Kandahar is on its third government boss in eight months. The first quit out of fear and frustration. The Taliban assassinated the second.




Greece turns to military to restore fuel supplies

Protesting truck drivers hold a Greek flag as they protest in central Athens on Friday, July 30, 2010. Defying an emergency government order, Greek truck drivers vowed Friday to press ahead with a protest that has halted fuel supplies across the country and is hurting tourism at peak season.The protesters rejected a compromise offer by the government to offset the financial impact of liberalizing their closed-shop profession.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Greece said Friday it will use military trucks, navy vessels and commandeered fuel tankers to restore gasoline supplies cut by a strike that has hurt the country's industry and vital tourism trade at the height of vacation season.




Poisoning scare hits U.S. Embassy in Paris

Outside the U.S. embassy in Paris where employees were being treated for poisoning after opening mail on Friday.Two employees of the U.S. Embassy in Paris were being given medical tests Friday after handling a suspicious package and reporting feeling "unwell," officials said.




Russia mobilizes army to fight fires that kill 25

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tours the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya, Russia, on Friday, July 30, 2010.  Putin on Friday visited the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya, where all 341 houses have burned to the ground, and kissed the cheek of one woman who was sobbing.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency Friday as more than 10,000 firefighters fought to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and ember during the country's hottest summer on record.




Troops kill senior 'capo' of mighty Mexico cartel

The FBI offered a $5 million reward for Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, 56.Soldiers have killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico's most powerful drug gang since  a military offensive against organized crime began in 2006.




Iran: West taints cigarettes with pig blood
Cigarettes smuggled into Iran have been tainted with pig blood and nuclear material as part of a Western conspiracy, an Iranian official claimed Friday.

US Consulate in Ciudad Juarez closes for security

The U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez,  Mexico, is shown March 2 after it was evacuated due to a bomb threat. Officials closed the consulate indefinitely Thursday for a security review.The U.S. closed its consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Thursday pending a security review, an unexpected decision that comes months after drug gangs killed three people tied to the consulate.




Swedish ex-police chief convicted of sex crimes

FILE - In this file photo dated July 20, 2010, showing former Swedish police commissioner Goran Lindberg, 2nd right, as he sits with his attorney Karl Harling, right, in court in Stockholm, Sweden.  The court on Friday July 30, 2010, convicted 64-year old Lindberg of more than a dozen sex crimes, including rape, and handed down a six and half year prison term. (AP Photo / Fredrik Persson, file) **  SWEDEN OUT  **A former Swedish police chief known for his lectures on gender equality and sexual harassment was convicted on Friday of rape and other sex crimes and sent to prison.




Bangladesh garment workers riot over new wages

Bangladeshi police use batons to disperse protesters in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Friday, July 30.Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers took to the streets, burning cars and blocking traffic, police said, in a protest against the minimum wage rate, police said.




430 killed in Pakistan's deadliest flood
Bad weather has hindered rescue efforts in Pakistan, where flooding has claimed at least 430 lives.  The death toll has surpassed that of a 1929 deluge, which killed 408.

UN removes 5 Taliban from sanctions blacklist
The U.N. Security Council on Friday removed five Taliban members from its sanctions blacklist, a move sought by the Afghan government to promote reconciliation.

Argentine couples wed under new gay marriage law

Ernesto Rodriguez Larrese, center right, and  Alejandro Vanelli, center left, are showered with rice after getting married in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, July 30, 2010. Larrese and Vanelli are the first gay couple to get married at the Argentine capital after President Cristina Fernandez signed a new law on July 21 making Argentina the first country in Latin America to legalize marriage for same-sex couples. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)After a 27-year courtship, two men on Friday became the first gay couple to wed under Argentina's historic same-sex marriage law — the first of its kind for a Latin American nation.




5 soldiers killed in land mine attack in India

Indian paramilitary soldiers carry their injured colleague at a hospital in the town of Goalpara, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of the state capital, Gauhati, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. Suspected separatist rebels triggered a land mine explosion Friday, killing at least four paramilitary soldiers and injuring 25 others in India's remote northeastern state of Assam, police said. (AP Photo)Separatist rebels triggered a land mine Friday that killed at least five paramilitary soldiers and wounded 41 others in India's remote northeastern state of Assam, where a deadly separatist insurgency has long raged.




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