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Karzai, Taliban Condemn Desecration; Military Questions Pair of MarinesJULIAN E. BARNES, MARIA ABI-HABIB The Washington Post 01/12/2012 | Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion ResidentsBrandon Turbeville Infowars.com 01/12/2012 |
 Pentagon officials went to lengths Thursday to avert damage to the U.S. war effort from a video that shows a group of Marines urinating on militants' corpses. |  Recently, India has launched a nationwide program involving the allocation of a Unique Identification Number (UID) to every single one of its 1.2 billion residents. Each of the numbers will be tied to the biometric data of the recipient using three different forms of information – fingerprints, iris scans, and pictures of the face. All ten digits of the hand will be recorded, and both eyes will be scanned. |
Hundreds Threaten Suicide At Foxconn Plant In China CBS Seattle 01/10/2012 | North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died AP 12/18/2011 |
 Some 300 Chinese Foxconn employees who manufacture X-box 360 machines said they would throw themselves from their Wuhan, China, plant if demands for lost wages were not met. |  Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69. |
Secret U.S., Taliban talks reach turning pointMissy Ryan, Warren Strobel and Mark Hosenball Reuters 12/18/2011 | Afghans say commando unit was attacked before airstrike was called on PakistanKaren DeYoung and Joshua Partlow The Washington Post 11/28/2011 |
 After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose ultimate goal is to end the Afghan war. |  The latest U.S.-Pakistan crisis threatened Monday to undo months of efforts to mend an increasingly frayed relationship and to undermine the Obama administration’s strategy for gradually ending the war in Afghanistan. |
Six Children Are Killed by NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan The New York Times 11/24/2011 | |
 Nearly 300 trucks carrying supplies to U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan clogged the Pakistani border crossings Sunday, leaving them vulnerable to militant attack a day after Islamabad closed the frontier in retaliation for coalition airstrikes that allegedly killed 24 Pakistani troops. |  Six children were among seven civilians killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Thursday. |
North Korea threatens South with "sea of fire" CBS News 11/24/2011 | Son of New York Bomb Plot Sheik Killed in Afghanistan Fox News 10/15/2011 |
 North Korea threatened Thursday to turn Seoul's presidential palace office into a "sea of fire," stepping up its rhetoric one day after South Korea conducted large-scale military drills near a front-line island attacked by North Korea last year. |  A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed a son of an Egyptian-born militant cleric imprisoned in the United States for plots in the 1990s to blow up New York City landmarks, an Islamist group said Saturday. |
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