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WASHINGTON – Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman were charged Wednesday with premeditated murder in the shooting death of an Iraqi man who was pulled from his home and shot while U.S. troops hunted for insurgents. They could face the death penalty if convicted. All eight also were charged with …

HONOLULU – A Navy ship intercepted a medium-range missile warhead above the earth’s atmosphere off Hawaii in the latest test of the U.S. missile defense program, the military said Thursday. The military had initially scheduled the test for Wednesday but postponed the drill after a small craft ventured into a …

MULTAN, Pakistan – Militants distributed fliers Thursday calling for one-month cease-fire in fighting with Pakistani forces in a volatile northern tribal region and talks with the government. The pamphlets, which armed tribesmen circulated in towns and villages throughout North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, followed a weekend call by a local militant …