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Chile to draw on stabilization fund for reconstruction
BOGOTA, Colombia — Chile's rainy day has come...
Strong aftershock rattles Haiti as rescue efforts increase
A powerful aftershock that rocked Haiti...
Iraqi Shiite group claims it is holding American hostage
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi Shiite group with close ties to Iran has claimed in a videotape Saturday it was holding an American hostage who is believed to be an El Cajon, Calif., man reported missing in Baghdad by the Pentagon...
Pope praises Michelangelo nudes as ‘spiritual’
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Friday lauded...
Iran says it agrees to send nuclear material to Turkey in...
BEIRUT — In what could be a stunning breakthrough in the years-long diplomatic deadlock over Iran's nuclear program, Tehran has agreed to send the bulk of its nuclear material to Turkey...
Massive Baghdad bombing casts doubt on Iraqi security, elections
BAGHDAD — Suicide bombers in cars packed with explosives killed at least 132 people and wounded 600 more outside Iraqi government buildings Sunday morning in nearly simultaneous blasts that were powerful even by Baghdad's...
Colombian peasants wooed with land to adopt family planning
ABIBE, Colombia — Think of the 10 women who just had their fallopian tubes tied at a clinic in northern Colombia as foot soldiers in Erwin Goggel's lonely war on overpopulation and poverty...
Karzai to accept fraud-audit results; government deal uncertain
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai was expected to announce Tuesday his acceptance of a U.N.-backed fraud audit reducing his vote in the August election to less than 50 percent, but it wasn't clear if he'd consent to a deal with his chief rival to ...