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Bagram Air Base attack leaves four Americans dead
By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com | Blog
Four American service members were killed in a mortar attack at Bagram Air Base outside of Kabul Tuesday, shortly after the announcement of the first-ever talks between the U.S. and Taliban representatives.



SHANGHAI, June 19 (UPI) -- The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration released its first list of companies Wednesday that have violated food safety rules and will be punished.
House Judiciary Committee approves its first immigration bill
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. House Judiciary Committee gave party-line approval to its first immigration bill, a proposal that would increase enforcement and border security.
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Four Americans were killed in a rocket attack at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan, a Pentagon source said.
NEW YORK, June 19 (UPI) -- Producers of a documentary on the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, N.Y., will petition to have the investigation reopened, their publicists said.
MONTREAL, June 19 (UPI) -- Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum announced his resignation after he was arrested on 14 criminal charges, including fraud and corruption, officials said.
LOS ANGELES, June 19 (UPI) -- A former University of Southern California professor on the FBI's most-wanted list for alleged sex crimes involving children was caught in Mexico, the FBI said.
PHILADELPHIA, June 19 (UPI) -- Police said they charged a Philadelphia man with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a paraplegic man in the chest and cut off his testicles.
LOURDES, France, June 19 (UPI) -- A 70-year-old woman died after being swept away by floodwaters in southern France, officials said Wednesday.
Peru earthquake rattles Lima
By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com | Blog
Lima was hit by the second earthquake in as many days Tuesday afternoon.
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 19 (UPI) -- The crisis in Syria exacerbated the plight of refugees or displaced persons, pushing displacements to an 18-year high, a U.N. refugee agency said.
Karzai suspends security talks with U.S. over U.S. talks with Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Afghan President Karzai suspended security talks with the United States Wednesday, saying he was doing so to protest U.S. outreach to the Taliban.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- President Obama's schedule Wednesday included meetings in Germany with U.S. Embassy personnel and German dignitaries, the White House said.
ISLAMABAD, June 19 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities have closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 people.
BURNABY, British Columbia, June 19 (UPI) -- An elderly man in British Columbia said he is hoping for the recovery of a bicycle, stolen this month, that he used for a trip across Canada in 1985.
Tea Party rally to be 'largest' since 2010
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- A Washington rally Wednesday against Internal Revenue Service conservative-group targeting will be the largest Tea Party protest in three years, organizers say.
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A child is seen playing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Berlin on June 18, 2013. Obama is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and will later speak at the Brandenburg Gate where fifty years earlier, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David Silpa