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West Bank settlement housing gets initial approval (AP)

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Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests (Reuters)

Reuters – Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the country.

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Thai detention of Iranian bomb suspect extended (AP)

AP – A Thai court on Wednesday allowed police to continue to detain one of five Iranian suspects in an alleged terror plot that was exposed by an accidental blast in a residential Bangkok neighborhood.

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Pakistan vows to support not lead Afghan peace drive (Reuters)

Reuters – Pakistan will give its full support to any clear effort by the Afghan government to achieve a political settlement with the Taliban but does not want to lead a peace process that would impose a solution, its foreign minister said on Wednesday.

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