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An accelerating trend or suicides that has sent tremors throughout the U.S. military, alarming the most senior officers and highlighting the strain on America’s fighting men and women after eight years of uninterrupted war.

The Army and the Marine Corps, which have borne the heaviest burden in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been hit the hardest, reporting a record number of suicides in 2008. This year, the toll is on pace to climb even higher.

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AP:

Beijing on Monday criticized a U.S. government report that said Chinese spies are aggressively stealing American secrets, saying the report was "full of prejudice" and warning that it could damage US-China relations.
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The New York Times:

American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.
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The Guardian:
British prosecutors failed to disclose crucial evidence to the courts in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in a case that resulted in an innocent pilot being jailed for five months, previously unseen documents reveal. (read the article)

AFP:
Two French investigating judges were in Rwanda on Monday to follow leads in their probe of Rwandan genocide suspects arrested in France, in the first such visit in nearly three years, officials said. (read the article)

The Washington Post:
Louisiana officials called on the Obama administration Thursday to compensate residents after a federal judge's ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for some of the worst flooding in and around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. ( read the article)

AP:
erman prosecutors investigating match-fixing in soccer say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland have been arrested and about 200 games in Europe are under suspicion. ( read the article)

The Boston Globe:
Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned Al Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. ( read the article)

Washington Post:

Scores of Cubans have been detained as political prisoners since Raul Castro assumed power three years ago, a human-rights organization reported Wednesday, suggesting that there has been little change in the repressive system that existed under his brother Fidel. ( read the article)

BBC:

Two suspected computer hackers have been arrested in Manchester in a major inquiry into a global internet scam designed to steal personal details. ( read the article)