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RALEIGH, N.C. – A former CIA contract worker charged with beating an Afghani detainee who later died admitted he assaulted the prisoner during an interrogation, a fellow agency employee testifying in disguise said Tuesday. David Passaro is charged with beating Abdul Wali over two days in June 2003 while questioning …

ATLANTA – The Stars and Stripes were everywhere at the annual Fourth of July Peachtree Road Race, from tiny flags taped over sports bras to flags sticking out of baseball caps to giant flags in the hands of runners. Greg Lohman, 51, and his 20-year-old son, Austin, just back from …

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Ethiopian troops in armored vehicles rolled into Somalia Thursday and set up a camp near the home of the interim president, residents said, less than a day after Islamic militants reached the outskirts of the base of a U.N.-backed, but largely powerless government. A spokesman for the …