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Pakistan Security Forces, Students Exchange Gunfire at Mosque At least one government ranger dead, both sides report several injured NATO Chief says Taleban, al-Qaida Hide Behind Civilians But Jaap de Hoop Scheffer warns that NATO opponents in Afghanistan cannot be put on same moral ground as alliance forces Australian Police Question Two Men Over UK Terror Plot Officials say both men had been working in northern England before being recruited by a hospital in Queensland Iraqi Cabinet Unanimously Approves Revised Oil Revenue Law Law would distribute potentially huge oil revenues among country's Kurdish, Shi'ite and Sunni groups Israel Finalizes List of 250 Palestinians Prisoners to Be Freed Many Israelis and Palestinians doubt plan will boost peace process AU Summit Ends With No Consensus on US of Africa Meanwhile, civil society organizations continued to protest for more discussion of issues they say affect the continent's development Liberia's Charles Taylor Ends Boycott, Attends War Crimes Trial Former President Charles Taylor did not explain his decision to attend hearing at UN-backed special court, where he pleaded not guilty to amended charge of sexual slavery Chinese Foreign Minister Meets with N. Korea's Kim Jong Il Yang Jiechi discusses reviving six-nation negotiations on Pyongyang's nuclear programs, according to China's official news agency, Xinhua Kashmir's Mothers of the Disappeared Struggle to Move On Thousands of young, military-age men in Kashmir have vanished during 18-year conflict US, Russia Remain Divided on Kosovo Issue Moscow worried about legal precedent Kosovo independence would set in world politics