U.S. Marines Activities

An Indian court denied bail on Saturday to two Italian marines charged with the murder of two fishermen who were shot dead off the country's southwestern coast.

The Italian government has paid compensation of $190,000 each to the families of two Indian fishermen allegedly shot dead by Italian marines in February, lawyers said on Tuesday.

Correction: Afghanistan-Violent Valley story. In a Nov. 9 story about U.S. Marines trying an aggressive new strategy to tame a violent Afghan valley, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the Marines on the ground, misidentified the aircraft that launched a Hellfire missile. The Marines now say it was a Marine Corps KC-130J equipped with a "Harvest HAWK" ISR/Weapon Mission Kit, not an AC-130 gunship.

Mexican marines capture alleged regional drug gang boss during raid on house in Acapulco. Mexico's navy says marines raided a house in the Pacific resort of Acapulco and captured a suspected regional chief of a drug gang involved in a bloody turf war in the center and south of Mexico.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. general once criticized for saying it was "fun to shoot some people" was tapped by the Pentagon on Thursday to lead the military command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. general once criticized for saying it was "fun to shoot some people" was tapped by the Pentagon on Thursday to lead the military command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Support for Japan's ruling Democratic Party has jumped after the launch of new Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government, improving its chances in an election likely next month, a survey showed on Wednesday.

Japan's rapid leadership turnover reflects demanding voters, shift away from 1-party dominance. Japan has gone through prime ministers at a dizzying rate ? Naoto Kan is the sixth in the last four years, and 14th over the last two decades ? the highest turnover among major industrialized countries.

Bodies of 5 Americans killed in Afghanistan return to Dover military mortuary. The bodies of five American servicemen have been returned to the military mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, after the deadliest day this year for NATO forces in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department said it opposed as potentially divisive a push in Congress to give the Marine Corps equal billing in the Department of the Navy.

Government appeals military court's overturning of Marine's conviction in Iraqi war crime case. The Navy announced Monday that it is appealing a military court's decision to overturn the murder conviction of a Camp Pendleton Marine in a major Iraqi war crimes case.

(Reuters) - Japan's newly elected Prime Minister Naoto Kan is likely to retain 11 of his predecessor's cabinet ministers in his government, the Nikkei business daily said.

US aerospace giant Boeing said Monday it was linking up with Italian aerospace group Finmeccanica in a bid to produce a new fleet of helicopters for the White House.

Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan, riding high on opinion poll ratings above 60 percent, was to unveil key posts in his centre-left party Monday, the eve of the formal launch of his government.

Al Maumausolo surveys what is left of the windswept, hilltop battlefield he has not seen in 42 years and says: "The body's somewhere around here."

Russia urges NATO to combat Afghan drug trafficking, offers to put 'ring around' country. Russia urged NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday to crack down harder on drug production and smuggling, and offered to help put a security ring around the country.

Al Maumausolo surveys what is left of the windswept, hilltop battlefield he has not seen in 42 years and says: "The body's somewhere around here."

Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan and US President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation Saturday in which they discussed "the many issues facing both nations" and the Japan-US alliance, the White House announced.

Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan and US President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation Sunday in which they affirmed ties strained by a row over a US base in Okinawa, news reports said.

At least 1,003 US military deaths in Afghan region since 2001. As of Friday, June 4, 2010, at least 1,003 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.