By ANNE GEARAN and ANNE FLAHERTY (AP)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50 percent increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy.
Although military and administration officials cautioned that Obama has not [...]

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By Dean Bennett , The Canadian Press
 
EDMONTON - Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, freed after 15 months of captivity in war-torn Somalia, said Wednesday she was isolated, beaten and tortured, and dreamed of walking through Vancouver’s Stanley Park to stay sane and not lose hope.
Lindhout, from Sylvan Lake in central Alberta, and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan [...]

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By Mark Tutton, CNN
London, England (CNN) — A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged.
For years he listened to the conversations going on around him but he was unable to communicate with his doctors or family.
Rom Houben was [...]

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Don’t derail reform talks, MPs warned
The Parliamentary Caucus on Reforms MPs Danson Mungatana and Olago Aluoch have warned colleagues against making unguarded public utterances that could derail debate on the draft constitution. Photo/CHRIS OJOW
By OLIVER MATHENGE
A group of MPs is warning colleagues against making unguarded public utterances that could derail debate on the draft constitution.
The [...]

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