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SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday’s session are Horizon Health Corp., Starbucks Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. After Thursday’s closing bell, Horizon Health (HORC) shares plummeted more than 28 percent after the healthcare services provider slashed its earnings outlooks …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Gunmen kidnapped 29 people in Baghdad on Monday, while Iraq’s latest wave of violence killed 27 people, including four Iraqi soldiers in a homicide bombing. The interior minister faced calls for his dismissal because of the worsening security crisis in Baghdad and surrounding towns, mostly blamed on …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 40 suspected Taliban militants in raid on a compound in southern Afghanistan on Monday, a coalition spokesman said. One Afghan army soldier was killed and three coalition troops wounded in the fighting near Tarin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan …