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• The military official who identified Kelley spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation. He said Kelley had received harassing emails from Broadwell, which led the FBI to examine her email account and eventually discover her relationship with Petraeus. The FBI contacted Petraeus and other intelligence officials, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked Petraeus to resign.
• A former associate of Petraeus confirmed the target of the emails was Kelley, but said there was no affair between the two, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the retired general's private life. The associate, who has been in touch with Petraeus since his resignation, said Kelley and her husband were longtime friends of Petraeus and his wife, Holly.
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Afghans find hope for justice in video testimony about Kandahar massacre of 16 civilians

• JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- Through a video monitor in a military courtroom near Seattle, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales saw young Afghan girls smile beneath bright head coverings before they described the bloodbath he's accused of committing.
• He saw boys fidget as they remembered how they hid behind curtains when a gunman killed 16 people in their village and one other.
• And he saw dignified, thick-bearded men who spoke of unspeakable carnage: the piled, burned bodies of children and parents alike.
• From the other side of that video link, in Afghanistan, another man saw something else: signs that justice will be done.
• "I saw the person who killed my brother sitting there, head down with guilt," Haji Mullah Baraan said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. "He didn't look up toward the camera."
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BBC says its news chief and her deputy have 'stepped aside' as scandal shakes the broadcaster

• LONDON (AP) -- The BBC's news chief and her deputy have 'stepped aside' while the broadcaster deals with the fallout from a child abuse scandal that forced its director-general to resign, the broadcaster said Monday.
• Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of news and current affairs, and her deputy,

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