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NEW YORK -- The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday threatened to sue conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for writing in a column that the civil rights leader played a role in two New York race riots.

MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's army claimed Sunday to have killed 60 militants on the first day of an operation against an al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border that residents said was meeting stiff resistance from insurgents....

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Nuclear-armed country tries to uproot insurgents threatening its stability.

Italian magistrates have complained after a TV channel owned by Silvio Berlusconi secretly filmed a judge who ruled against him in a bribery case.

Pakistani soldiers attack militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border as the nuclear-armed country launched its most critical offensive yet.

Helicopter gunships, aircraft and artillery pound Waziristan mountain stronghold following attacks by militantsMore than 30,000 Pakistani soldiers launched a long-expected assault on the Taliban lair of South Waziristan yesterday, following a fortnight of militant attacks that left 175 dead and underlined the threat to Pakistan's stability.Early clashes were reported to have claimed more than 20 casualties as government soldiers pressed in on the mountain stronghold from three sides, backed by helicopter gunships, warplanes and artillery. A fifth of the local population has fled in recent weeks. The operation is Pakistan's largest ever drive against Islamist extremists. The army says that it has been taking on an estimated 10,000 Taliban and al-Qaida fighters. The battle zone is the Mehsud tribal territory, whose impoverished villages have a long history of producing formidable tribal fighters. The Pakistan Taliban in the region are now led by Hakimullah Mehsud, the successor of B

More than 3,000 troops scheduled to deploy to Iraq won't be sent, as the U.S. tries to draw down troop levels there, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday. '[The cancellation] reflects a thorough assessment of the security environment in Iraq and continued improvement in the ability of the Iraqi security forces to safeguard Iraqi citizens and institutions,' Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh told CNN.