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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Residents of Pakistan's northwest have criticized the government's response to devastating flooding that has killed more than 800 people. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Pakistan flooding ravages countryside, kills hundreds

VICTORIA, British Columbia - A Canadian waterbombing plane battling wildfires deep in British Columbia's interior crashed on Saturday, search and rescue officials said. Full Story »

When the generals began disposing of thousands of young people in the late 1970s, only one journalist dared stand up for the rights of the "disappeared." And then he seemed to vanish from history. Full Story »

LONDON (AFP) - Bath flanker Lewis Moody has revealed he is eager to become England's full-time captain. Full Story »

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The latest beneficiary of improved relations between Turkey and Syria is the rare northern bald ibis. Full Story »

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - As the U.S. military prepares for the first war crimes trial under President Barack Obama, its most high-profile case against the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks is stuck in political and legal limbo. Full Story »

• Slideshow: 9/11 Terror Attacks

MAPUTO (AFP) - Heavily pregnant Adelaide Mangwel balances 18 kilos of prawns on her head as she slowly descends the crowded ferry that carried her across Maputo Bay to sell her seafood in Mozambique's capital. Full Story »

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Police and paramilitary troops enforced a strict curfew in Indian Kashmir on Sunday after two days of violent clashes between anti-India protestors and security forces that left six people dead. Full Story »

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Growth in Canada's economy edged up in May after stalling unexpectedly in April, helped by strength in the goods-producing sectors led by oil and gas extraction, while the service sector faltered for a second straight month. Full Story »

SYDNEY (AFP) - Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday threatened legal action over claims he was once used as a "double agent" by rival politicians to leak damaging information about his own party. Full Story »

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — As the U.S.-led coalition launches its most critical military operation of the nine-year war in Afghanistan, doubts are growing about whether the United States and its allies can contain the surging Taliban-led insurgency and prevent the country from reverting to an al Qaida sanctuary or erupting in civil war. Full Story »

Baghdad - A year ago, Iranian soldiers arrested three Americans along the border with Iraq. Full Story »

Six weeks after deadly violence between the Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities of southern Kyrgyzstan, Uzbeks are being persecuted under the guise of an investigation into the fighting Full Story »

BEIJING - Two dozen workers were trapped in a flooded mine in northeast China on Sunday, the latest accident in the country's notoriously dangerous coal industry. Full Story »

SEOUL, South Korea - Dozens of land mines have washed up on South Korean shores in recent days, apparently swept from North Korea by torrential rains. One killed a man and wounded another, the military said Sunday. Full Story »