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N. Korea to resume dismantling nuclear facilities (AP)
12 10 2008

Kim Sook, South Korea's chief envoy to international nuclear talks with North Korea, smiles during a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. Kim said he expects North Korea to immediately resume work to disable its nuclear reactor after the United States removed the country from a list of states that sponsor terrorism. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

AP - North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the U.S. removed the communist country from a list of states Washington says sponsor terrorism.

Pope creates 4 new saints, including Indian woman (AP)
12 10 2008

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII, in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The pontiff has given a push to possible sainthood for Pope Pius XII, as he defended the World War II pontiff Thursday from accusations that he did little to spare Jews from the Holocaust. Benedict contends his predecessor acted silently to save as many Jews as possible and expressed hope that efforts aimed at his beatification would proceed 'smoothly.' Beatification is the last formal step before sainthood. Some writers and Jewish leaders others have accused Pius of not doing enough to try to stop the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews died. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman whose canonization is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India who have suffered Hindu violence.

More than 100 Taliban killed in Afghan clashes (AP)
12 10 2008

Pakistani tribesmen examine a damaged car after a house was hit by a suspected U. S. missiles on the outskirt of Miran Shah, the main town of Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region along Afghanistan border on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. The latest in a barrage of suspected U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's northwest killed five people, but none were believed to be foreign al-Qaida fighters, officials said. (AP Photo/Hasbunallah Khan)

AP - Taliban militants launched a surprise attack on a key southern Afghan town, sparking a battle that killed some 60 insurgents, an Afghan official said Sunday. A second clash in the same region killed another 40 militants.

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