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Bomb kills 3 in Afghan capital ahead of conference (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) meets with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad July 18, 2010. Clinton arrived in Pakistan on Sunday, hoping to buttress a shaky partnership that U.S. officials say is key to the escalating war in neighbouring Afghanistan.  REUTERS/Adrees Latif  (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)AP – A suicide bomber slipped through the Afghan capital’s tight security ring Sunday, killing three civilians near a busy market two days ahead of an international conference hosting representatives from about 60 nations, officials said.


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Rotten Apple? Steve Jobs to admit Apple ‘not perfect’ at conference

Apple is opening a news conference on the iPhone 4 with its CEO Steve Jobs declaring, “We’re not perfect.”

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Militants attack as Afghan peace conference starts (AP)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai asks attendees of the peace jirga to take their seats after hearing sounds of an explosion, during his opening address in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Security forces battled insurgents including at least one suicide bomber outside the national peace conference just as Karzai opened the three-day meeting Wednesday in the Afghan capital.  (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP – Taliban suicide attackers struck at the national peace conference as it opened Wednesday in the Afghan capital, waging gunbattles near the venue. At least two attackers were killed but no delegates were hurt, officials said.


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Israel key to conference on banning nuclear arms (AP)

FILE - Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones  testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Sept. 6, 2007 file photo.  U.S. National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones  said in a statement Friday night May 28, 2010 that the United States has 'serious reservations' about the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference in 2012  and believes Mideast peace and full compliance by all countries in the region to their arms control and nonproliferation obligations 'are essential precursors.'  (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)AP – After 15 years, Arab nations finally won agreement from the United States and the other nuclear powers to take the first step toward banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. Now, the next move is Israel’s.


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Bret Michaels press conference: Poison frontman to make full recovery

The Poison frontman who suffered a massive brain hemorrhage last month is walking and talking and expected to make a full recovery, his doctor said Tuesday.

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Israeli PM calls off trip to nuclear conference (AP)

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu smiles during a press conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Netanyahu says his government has not yet worked out its differences with the U.S. over Israeli construction in disputed east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP – Israel’s prime minister abruptly called off a trip to Washington just days before he was slated to attend a conference there on the spread of nuclear weapons, officials in his office said Friday, fearing Israel would be singled out over its own nuclear program.


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Afghan president to host April peace conference (AP)

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left,  walks with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai  during a press conference at The Presidential Palace in Kabul on  Monday March 8, 2010. (AP  Photo/Jim Watson/Pool)AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that an action plan to reintegrate low- to mid-level insurgent fighters into society and negotiate with the Taliban’s top echelon will be crafted next month at a peace conference aimed at ending the war.


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