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| Obama unveils army cuts |
| Strategy embraces smaller military, no grinding wars |
| President Obama outlined a broad new military strategy for the US today, one that refocuses the armed forces on threats in Asia and the Pacific region, continues a strong presence in West Asia but makes clear that American ground forces will no longer be large enough to conduct prolonged, large
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| Iraq blasts |
| Bomb attacks in mainly Shia areas of Iraq killed at least 73 people and wounded scores today, police and hospital sources said, raising fears of an increase in sectarian str
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| Militants execute kidnapped Pak troops |
| Pakistani Taliban militants killed at least 15 kidnapped soldiers of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary and dumped their bodies on a hilltop in northwestern Pakistan
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| Photographer dead |
| Eve Arnold, a world-travelling photojournalist whose subjects ranged from the poor to Marilyn Monroe, has died, the Magnum photo agency said today. She was 99.
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