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UN wants to use surveillance drones in Congo

By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations outlined its case to the Security Council Tuesday to use surveillance drones in Congo for the first time but ran into opposition from neighboring Rwanda which is believed to be backing rebels who recently took control of

UN report calls on Cuba to release American

By JESSICA GRESKOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A United Nations group is calling on the Cuban government to release an American who has been held in the country for more than three years, saying his imprisonment is unfair. A 12-page report by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was

Obama's CIA pick chose spycraft over priesthood

By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - John Brennan was headed for the priesthood when, while sitting idly on a bus as a student at Fordham University in the 1970s, he stumbled on a recruiting ad for the CIA. Now, after years of poring through intelligence, trekking with Mideast

Infantry now shut to women; do they want it open?

By PAULINE JELINEKAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops - the country's front-line warfighters - how many women will want to? The answer is probably not many. Interviews with a dozen female soldiers and Marines showed little interest in