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The hardest life: surviving Cuban jail 11:00 PM EST

Boiled plantain-flavored water as soup. A greasy scoop of bland, yellowing beef fat as a side dish. A stew dubbed ``the giraffe'' because ``you had to stretch your neck to find something in it.'' A hairy heap of ground pig eyes, cheek, ears, and other unidentifiable parts served as a main course.

July the deadliest month of Afghan war for U.S. 12:10 PM EST

NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.

Military documents on WikiLeaks show a testy U.S.-Pakistan bond 10:20 AM EST

The U.S. and Pakistani governments moved swiftly Monday to say that a trove of leaked U.S. military documents paints a dated and incomplete portrait of Pakistan as an untrustworthy partner against militants who use the country as a safe zone.

U.S. looks for damage after WikiLeaks exposed Afghanistan War secrets 2:00 AM EST

The publication of some 92,000 classified U.S. military reports on the Afghanistan war could complicate the Obama administration's strategy for ending the Taliban-led insurgency by hurting cooperation with Pakistan and throttling the flow of vital ground intelligence, current and former U.S. officials said Monday.

Hayward's next job in Russia? 1:00 AM EST

BP is jettisoning CEO Tony Hayward, whose verbal blunders made the oil giant's image even worse as it struggled to contain the Gulf oil spill, and will assign him to a key job in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.

S. Fla.-based group gambles on Bimini Big Game Club 10:56 PM EST

There is no casino here at the Bimini Big Game Club, but the people behind the rebirth of the historic hotel and marina are doing plenty of gambling.

Political prisoners in Spain confronted with maze of immigration rules 10:54 PM EST

Cuban refugee Jorge Pérez Fernández has the promise in writing: The Spanish government will grant him political asylum or residency within six months of his arrival in that country.

46 Iraqi militiamen are killed in twin suicide blasts 1:00 AM EST

Two suicide bombers killed 46 members of a U.S. backed anti-al Qaeda Sunni militia in Iraq, the highest such death toll in two months, an Iraqi Interior ministry official said Sunday.

11 Cuban prisoners, expatriated to Spain, are weary, ailing, defiant and free 10:56 PM EST

Packed into a hostel named Welcome that advertises lodging for about $18 a night -- the same as a cab ride to this industrial hub 10 miles away from the city center -- the 11 freed Cuban prisoners who arrived this week with their families face an uncertain future in a country reeling from economic woes.

Safe in Spain, Cuban dissidents vow to continue struggle 1:00 AM EST

Cuba's best-known political prisoner and nine others will refuse to leave for Spain if freed, relatives said, while the seven former prisoners who arrived in Madrid on Tuesday vowed to continue their activism from exile.