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  • A university student shouts at national guard soldiers outside the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets in a bid to quell the demonstrations.

    Venezuelans protest colleges law

    Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets Thursday as thousands of students protested against a law passed by Venezuela's congress that increases government powers over the country's universities.


  • A U.S. Coast Guard vessel searches for survivors in an area believed to be the crash site of a Puerto Rico National Guard helicopter in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2010. The chopper crashed Monday into the ocean after returning from a drug raid, with all six people aboard feared dead, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/El Nuevo Dia, Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)

    6 feared dead in crash of Puerto Rico Guard copter


  • Pearl Harbor survivor John Hughes (left) and Lance Cpl. Zackary Morphew attend the 69th anniversary ceremony marking the attack on Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

    Pearl Harbor survivors gather 69 years later

    Aging Pearl Harbor survivors on Tuesday heard reassurances their sacrifice would be remembered and passed on to future generations as they gathered to mark the 69th anniversary of the attack.


  • Pearl Harbor survivor Nelson Mitchell, 90, of Phoenix, carries a wreath Tuesday to the USS Arizona Anchor Memorial in Phoenix, to remember those killed on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked a military base in Hawaii, provoking U.S. involvement in World War II. On that day of "infamy," 2,388 Americans died and 1,178 were wounded. (Associated Press)

    Pearl Harbor veterans mark 69 years

    Aging Pearl Harbor survivors on Tuesday heard reassurances that their sacrifices would be remembered and passed on to future generations as they gathered to mark the 69th anniversary of the attack.


  • Inside the Beltway

    "It is not our weapons or our technology that make us the most advanced military in the world; it is the unparalleled spirit, skill and devotion of our troops."


  • American Scene

    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday a 17 percent drop in Border Patrol arrests this year shows heightened enforcement is slowing illegal immigration.


  • In this photo from Oct. 6, 2010, Tiffany Hartley (left) and family members lay a wreath near the site where her husband, David Hartley, was shot last month on Falcon Lake in Zapata, Texas. U.S. and Mexican authorities said Tuesday a Mexican state police commander investigating the Hartley's reported shooting and disappearance has been killed. (Associated Press)

    Mexican official leading probe of Texan's death reported killed

    Law enforcement authorities in the United States and Mexico on Tuesday confirmed the slaying of the high-ranking Mexican state police commander who was overseeing an investigation into the fatal shooting by suspected pirates of an American tourist on a Texas border lake.


  • Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), accompanied by U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez (right) of the District of Puerto Rico and FBI Executive Director Shawn Henry, answers questions during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Earlier in the day, FBI agents arrested scores of Puerto Rican police officers for allegedly aiding drug dealers. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

    Puerto Rico police swept up in U.S. corruption probe

    FBI agents arrested scores of Puerto Rican police officers Wednesday for allegedly aiding drug dealers in what authorities said was the national agency's largest-ever police corruption investigation.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Pakistani paramilitary Frontier Corps soldier surveys the Kandaro Valley in the Mohmand tribal area where Pakistani forces claim to have defeated Taliban militants.

    DEBORCHGRAVE: One nervy one-star

    It was at the officers club in the military garrison town of Rawalpindi, a short drive from the capital of Islamabad. The one-star general, holding a glass of mango juice, asked for permission to speak to the three-star corps commander. They spoke in English, as Pakistani generals are prone to do when speaking among themselves.


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