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WASHINGTON – The U.S. should rethink its approach in Pakistan, including a multimillion dollar program aimed at training and equipping tribal militants, unless Islmabad does more to keep terrorists from crossing the Afghan border, a top Democrat said Tuesday. Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, told reporters …

ABUJA, Nigeria – A petrol tanker slammed into a Nigerian military convoy, killing nearly four dozen soldiers hours after they returned from peacekeeping duties in Sudan’s Darfur region, the military said Thursday. The unit from the Army’s 245th Battalion flew Wednesday from Darfur to the international airport in the capital, …

Whitney Thompson became the first plus-size woman to win “America’s Next Top Model” on Wednesday night. “People always say you have to be stick-skinny, emaciated and unhealthy and I’ve kind of stood up for [being full-figured] my whole life,” Thompson told the New York Post in her first post-victory interview. …