Lawrence Journal-World 06-30-13

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AFGHAN PRESIDENT HAMID KARZAI, RIGHT, SHAKES HANDS with British Prime Minister David Cameron during a press conference at the presidential palace on Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan. Karzai urged Taliban militants to sit down at the negotiating table, saying Saturday his government is still willing to start peace talks with the insurgents despite an attack by the group on the presidential palace this week.

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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that his government is still willing to start talks with the Taliban, easing concerns that a brazen attack by the group on the presidential palace earlier this week would derail the country’s nascent peace process. In a joint news conference in Kabul with visiting British Prime Minister Prime Minister David Cameron, he urged the militant group to return to the negotiating table. He dismissed the attack as “peanuts� and said it would not deter his government from seeking peace. The Taliban have indicated they are willing to open peace talks with the U.S. and the Afghanistan government and opened an office in Qatar a little more than a week ago for possible negotiations. But at the same time they have not renounced violence and attacks have continued across Afghanistan. Their ability to carry out well-planned and bold operations was driven home Tuesday when a SUV carrying four Taliban fighters managed to make it into a highly secured area by the gates of the palace. The four Taliban gunmen battled Afghan security forces for about an hour before being killed; a second vehicle involved in the attack

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Millions worldwide share difficult Mandela vigil as end draws near By Jesse Washington AP National Writer

As Nelson Mandela lingers in a hospital, yet another remarkable moment is helping to seal his legacy: Millions of people around the world, united by respect and gratitude, are preparing for this beloved man to die. The preparations take many forms: prayers and vigils, pictures and candles, headlines and YouTube videos. All are measurements of his legend, and yet as the 94-year-old Mandela’s hospitalization continues, the anticipation has left many caught in an awkward limbo, sharing on a global scale what is usually a private scenario. There is no one in the world like Mandela — a victim who both governed and forgave his tormentors, a figure so universally admired that his countless honors include both America’s Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Soviet Union’s Order of Lenin. So as the days have passed since his hospitalization on June 8 — the slow decline of a giant broadcast everywhere with the speed, detail and

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