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Can Iraq Lessons Learned Work In Afghanistan?: As the combat mission ends in Iraq, 30,000 additional troops are heading to Afghanistan. Comparisons between the two wars are inevitable. Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq, brings to Afghanistan many familiar military faces and the strategy of creating local forces to take control of security at the grass-roots level.

Mideast View On The Proposed Islamic Center: Morning Edition wants to know how people in the Middle East view the debate over the proposed Islamic center near the site of the former World Trade Center in New York. Ramez Maluf, professor of journalism at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, talks to Steve Inskeep about how the debate.

South Korean Christians Try To Help Struggling North: South Korea's large Christian community is divided over how to help people in the North. A majority support efforts to send computers, cell phones and food clandestinely to the North. About 15 percent have pro-North Korean beliefs and favor dialogue with the government there.

State Department Hosts Formal Mideast Peace Talks: Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams are getting down to work at the State Department Thursday -- with low expectations and amid more violence in the West Bank. President Obama hosted a dinner Wednesday night for the visiting Israeli and Palestinian leaders and other would-be peacemakers. The President challenged them to walk the path of peace.

Tony Blair On War, Globalization And 'My Political Life': The former prime minister of the United Kingdom's memoir, My Life: A Political Journey, is on sale in the U.S. Blair spoke to Steve Inskeep about Iraq, globalization and his political career.

Lively Living Aboard Congo's River-Bound 'Villages': Travel by water is the cheapest mode of transport in the Congo, and hundreds go by barge. From open-air ablutions and barter and trade on the water to the threat of rebel unrest, barge travel along the nearly 3,000-mile-long Congo River is full of activity punctuated just as often by delays.

Settlement-Building May Tear Down Peace Talks: Jewish settlers broke ground on new construction projects Wednesday in the West Bank, defying a ban imposed by Israel that expires at the end of the month. Settlers and their government supporters have been pushing to end the freeze. But Palestinians say they'll walk out of peace talks if that happens.

U.S. Charges Pakistan Taliban Leader In CIA Attack: The Justice Department accuses Hakimullah Mehsud of planning the December 2009 attack in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing a Jordanian intelligence officer and seven CIA employees. It also placed the Pakistani group on its international terrorism blacklist.
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Oil Rig On Fire Some 90 Miles South Of Louisiana, U.S. Coast Guard Reports: Information on a rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana as we get it.
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Oil Rig Explodes In Gulf Of Mexico: The rig, about 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay along the central Louisana coast, exploded about 9:30 am. CDT Thursday. Emergency crews are en route to the scene.
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Rapper T.I. And Wife Arrested On Drug Charges: The rapper and his wife, singer Tameka Cottle, were arrested in Los Angeles Wednesday night after police smelled what appeared to be marijuana coming from their car on Sunset Boulevard.
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Discovery Hostage-Taker Hated Programming: A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.
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Some Dig In, Others Flee Coast As Earl Nears: Tourists were largely gone from North Carolina's Outer Banks, but those resolute residents who stayed behind say they were prepared Thursday to potentially face down the most powerful hurricane to threaten the coast in years.
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Can Iraq Lessons Learned Work In Afghanistan?: As the combat mission ends in Iraq, 30,000 additional troops are heading to Afghanistan. Comparisons between the two wars are inevitable. Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq, brings to Afghanistan many familiar military faces and the strategy of creating local forces to take control of security at the grass-roots level.

Mideast View On The Proposed Islamic Center: Morning Edition wants to know how people in the Middle East view the debate over the proposed Islamic center near the site of the former World Trade Center in New York. Ramez Maluf, professor of journalism at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, talks to Steve Inskeep about how the debate.

Ex-Lehman CEO Fuld Blames Regulators: The former head of Lehman Brothers said the company could have survived, if regulators offered the same kind of help it did to Lehman's competitors. Richard Fuld testified before the commission that's investigating the financial crisis Wednesday. Fuld said it was regulators -- not bad investments -- that did Lehman in.

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