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U.S. nuns group seeks dialogue with VaticanSt. Louis: The leaders of the nation’s largest

group of nuns sidestepped a confrontation with the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, announcing Friday that they would “dialogue” with the archbishop appointed by the Vatican to take over their group but not “compromise the integrity” of their mission.

Sister Pat Farrell, the outgoing president of the nuns’ group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, said at a news conference that members of her organization wanted to be “recognized as equal in the church,” to have their style of religious life “respected and affirmed,” and to help create a climate in which everyone in the church can talk about “issues that are very complicated.”

“Their expectation is that open and honest dialogue may lead not only to increasing understanding between the church leadership and women religious,” the nuns said in a statement, “but also to creating more possibilities for the laity, and particularly for women, to have a voice in the church.”

Some Vatican officials already have indicated exasperation with the nuns’ insistence on perpetual dialogue. They say church doctrine is not open for dialogue. Cardinal William J. Levada, an American who until June was in charge of the church’s doctrinal office, called the nuns’ approach a “dialogue of the deaf.”

The decision to seek a dialogue came after more than 900 nuns spent four days doing what they call “listening to the Holy Spirit” at round tables inside a vast hotel ballroom. They represent about 80 percent of the 57,000 Catholic nuns in the United States.

Time, CNN suspend ZakariaNew York: Time editor-at-large and CNN host

Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by the magazine and the network for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for his use in a recent Time column.

Zakaria apologized Friday, saying in a statement that he made “a terrible mistake,” adding, “It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault.”

In a separate statement, Time spokesman Ali Zelenko said the magazine accepted Zakaria’s apology but would suspend his column for one month,

“pending further review.” Shortly afterward, CNN said it had removed from the network’s Web site a blog post that “included similar unattributed excerpts” and had taken Zakaria off the air indefinitely.

1873 dime sells for $1.6 millionPhiladelphia: A dime made in 1873 has cost

someone a pretty penny: It sold for $1.6 million at auction to an anonymous bidder, said Chris Napolitano, president of Stack’s Bowers Galleries, which auctioned it during an American Numismatic Association convention in Philadelphia. With a 15 percent buyer’s fee tacked on, the final price for the coin was $1.84 million, he said.

The rare coin was minted in Carson City, Nev., during a one-day run of dimes.

“Generally speaking, in the coin auction business you might get a couple of people fighting each other” as they bid, he said Friday. “On this one, we had four or five buyers over a million dollars. We had a fair amount of buyers pursuing it.”

The 1873-CC “No Arrows” Liberty Seated dime was auctioned Thursday night. It’s part of the Battle Born Collection, which contained one of every coin struck in Carson City before the mint there closed in 1893.

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India opens expressway from New Delhi to Taj Mahal New Delhi: A new, six-lane expressway that halves

the travel time between New Delhi and Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, was a scene of revelry and pride Friday as hundreds of families made the most of a public holiday to test the ride and take photographs.

“What a lovely smooth cruise we are having today. It’s a great escape from driving daily on clogged, congested roads,” said Sameer Singh, 44, a businessman who took his family on the highway less than 24 hours after it opened. “I could not wait to test the claim that it would just take two hours to Agra.”

Although the Yamana Expressway provided a smooth commute Friday, the project had experienced many bumps and detours over nine years since government approval, including bitter and prolonged protests — and intense political wrangling — as farmers sought higher compensation for the government’s forced acquisition of their land.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Three Americans were killed Friday when a man in an Af-ghan security force uniform turned his weapon against them, U.S. military officials said.

A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said it hadn’t been confirmed whether the attacker was a member of Af-ghanistan’s security forces. But the incident, in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province, ap-pears to be the latest in a se-ries of so-called green on blue attacks by local forces on their coalition counterparts.

The International Security Assistance Force, as the U.S.-led coalition is formally known, has recorded about 67 green on blue attacks since January 2007. Forty-five such incidents, or two-thirds, have occurred since the beginning of last year — three this week alone. On Tuesday, two men wearing Af-

ghan National Army uniforms shot a U.S. soldier to death in eastern Paktia province. On Thursday, an Afghan soldier opened fire on a group of coali-tion troops outside a military base in eastern Afghanistan. No international forces were killed, but the coalition report-ed that the attacker was killed when its forces returned fire.

Twenty-eight coalition soldiers have been killed and about 60 wounded in 24 green on blue attacks this year. Last year, 35 were killed in 21 inci-dents, according to coalition figures.

The U.S. military and the International Security As-sistance Force say that most green on blue attacks are car-ried out not by Taliban infiltra-tors but by Afghans who are frustrated with the behavior of their Western counterparts. “These are isolated incidents, and they are not reflective of the partnership that we have with Afghan forces ev-

ery day,” said Air Force Maj. Lori Hodge, a U.S. military spokeswoman. A coalition of-ficial who spoke only on the condition of anonymity be-cause of the sensitivity of the issue called the recent uptick in such attacks “clearly dis-turbing.” But the official also said that given the 350,000 Afghan security personnel and 129,000 coalition troops in Afghanistan, green on blue attacks were still “quite an un-usual occurrence.”

When an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops Jan. 20 at a joint base in Kapisa province, France’s then-pres ident , Nicolas Sarkozy, described green on blue attacks as “unaccept-able.” A fifth soldier later died of his wounds. The Kapisa killings prompted Sarkozy to advance the withdrawal date for French combat troops to the end of next year. His suc-cessor, François Hollande, has pledged to withdraw French troops a year earlier — by the end of this year.

Uniformed Afghan kills 3 U.S. troops

THIRD GREEN ON BLUE ATTACK THIS WEEKBy Jon StephensonMcClatchy Newspapers

SEOUL, South Korea — President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea flew to a set of islets locked in a territorial dispute with Japan on Friday, dismissing protests from To-kyo and making a trip that was bound to heighten diplo-matic tensions between Wash-ington’s two key Asian allies.

Japan called Lee’s visit “unacceptable” and recalled its ambassador from Seoul in protest, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters in Tokyo.

Adding drama to the sim-mering historical hostility that Lee’s surprise trip mag-nified, the archrivals South Korea and Japan were set to clash in London on Friday for the Olympic bronze medal in soccer, a game to be watched by millions of people in both countries.

Although South Korean Cabinet ministers and na-tional legislators previously visited the barely inhabitable volcanic outcroppings in the sea between Korea and Japan, Lee was the first South Ko-rean president to travel there to highlight his country’s ter-ritorial control. A squadron of armed South Korean police officers has manned the islets,

called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan, since the 1950s. An elderly fishing couple also lives there with government support.

“Dokdo is truly our terri-tory, and it’s worth defend-ing with our lives,” Lee told the police officers, according to the national news agency Yonhap, whose reporter ac-companied the presidential entourage.

With his popularity plum-meting amid corruption scan-dals implicating his associ-ates, Lee is badly in need of a boost to his political lever-age. Opposition politicians were quick to accuse him of making the unprecedented

presidential trip to tap South Koreans’ deep-seated national-istic sentiments against Japan for gains in domestic politics. Although Lee is banned by law from running in the presi-dential election scheduled for December, his governing par-ty feared being labeled “pro-Japanese” so much that it forced his government in June to postpone the signing of an agreement to share classified military data with Japan.

The dispute over the islets remains one of the most con-tentious issues left unresolved from Japan’s often brutal colo-nial rule of the Korean Penin-sula from 1910 until its World War II defeat in 1945.

South Korean leader’s islets visit increases tensions with JapanBy Choe Sang-Hun

The New York Times

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, right, visited islands called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan on Friday. They are at the center of a long-running territorial dispute.

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