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  • Gates visits US forces in southern Afghanistan (AP)

    U.S. Marines in the background provide security as a Marine and a U.S. Army Task Force Shadow flight medic, right, rush a Marine wounded in an explosive attack across a  field to a medevac helicopter, west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Aeromedical teams with the 101st Airborne's Task Force Destiny provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - As the last of 30,000 U.S. reinforcements arrive in Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday got a firsthand look at operations in the dangerous south where Afghan and international troops are ramping up security.




  • Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in troubled border state (AP)

    In this photo released by Mexico's Secretary of Defense (SEDENA), a soldier walks past a pick-up truck and seized weapons near the town of Ciudad Mier in northern Mexico, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010.  According to the Secretary of Defense, gunmen opened fire on soldiers after an airborne patrol detected armed men guarding a home near this town. At least 25 gunmen were killed, two soldiers were injured and three people held captive were freed.  (AP Photo/SEDENA)AP - Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war.




  • Indonesian volcano spews new burst of ash (AP)

    Mount Sinabung spews volcanic smoke as seen from Tanah Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. The eruption of the volcano that has been dormant for four hundred years over the weekend caught many scientists off guard and left the region on high alert. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)AP - An Indonesian volcano that was quiet for four centuries shot a new, powerful burst of hot ash more than 10,000 feet (three kilometers) in the air Friday, sending frightened residents fleeing to safety for the second time this week.




  • Egypt TV show stirs debate over Muslim Brotherhood (AP)

    In this Dec.10, 2006 picture masked  Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood students perform a military show inside their al-Azhar university campus in Cairo, Egypt.  Centered on a 2009 court case in which the Brotherhood was accused of setting up a student militia, a TV miniseries airing in Egypt that casts a harsh light on the country's largest opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, plot weaves through in flashbacks decades long confrontations between Egypt's various governments  and the group. Arabic on their masks read 'We're holding on'. (AP Photo)AP - The bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyles and values. His followers beat up an opponent.




  • Dolphins caught, not killed, in Japan cove (AP)

    Fishermen drive bottle-nose dolphins into a net during their annual hunt off Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture (state), Japan, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. The Japanese government allows a hunt of about 20,000 dolphins a year, and argues that killing them, and also whales, is no different from raising cows or pigs for slaughter. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA **AP - Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, conservationist group Sea Shepherd said Friday. A town official said none were killed.





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