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Afghan children raped with 'impunity,' U.N. official saysThe Young Afghan Girl Sits In The Center Of The Room, Weeping. Using Her Hand And Her Blue Scarf To Hide Her Face, She Recounts How She Was Brutally Raped By Five Gunmen.

The terrorist group, believed to be Uighurs, warns Muslims to avoid public transport with ethnic Chinese.

Responses to the Hamdan Ruling The first trial at Guantanamo Bay resulted in a prison sentence of 5/15 years for the defendant, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver. Hamdan...

Amid broad outrage over the slaying of a 14-year-old kidnapping victim, Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday urged Congress to toughen punishments for abductors to include life in prison. The proposal would make kidnapping in some cases subject to the harshest criminal sentence in Mexico, which formally abolished its long-dormant death penalty three years ago. Full Story

Bolivia?s presidents traditionally address the nation from the country?s elegant whitewashed judicial capital of Sucre on Independence Day. But Evo Morales, the radical leftist president who faces a recall vote this Sunday, was not welcome in Sucre this week. Full Story

Russian tanks and troops entered Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia province on Friday to repel a Georgian military offensive to reclaim the region amid fighting said to have left hundreds dead. Full Story

A car bomb in a vegetable market in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar killed 18 people and wounded 25 on Friday, police said. Full Story

Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr would dissolve his Mehdi Army militia if the United States starts withdrawing troops according to a set timetable, a spokesman said. Full Story

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has endorsed a new five-year, $17 billion plan to increase the size of the Afghan army by about 50,000 troops. Full Story

El Salvador is again reducing its troop numbers in Iraq. Full Story