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Rescuers search for Chile quake survivors; death toll jumps to 708

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BOGOTA, Chile — Rescuers searched for survivors Sunday a day after one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history rocked Chile, killing more than 700 people while leaving untold numbers missing and 2 million displaced, wounded or otherwise affected...

Iran agrees to new nuclear talks

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BEIRUT — For the first time in more than a year, Iran has agreed to talks with world powers over its nuclear power program...

5 Western troops killed in Afghanistan

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KABUL — Reflecting a quickening tempo of combat in Afghanistan...

Attacks on university in Pakistan leave 5 dead, 22 injured

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ISLAMABAD — After unleashing a vicious wave of attacks on...

Egyptian protests intensify; demonstrators battle with police

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CAIRO and TUNIS, Tunisia — Police and protesters clashed across Egypt...

Taliban suicide bombers attack Kabul shopping mall

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GARDEZ, Afghanistan — Taliban suicide bombers attacked a Kabul shopping mall near the Afghan Presidential Palace...

Scientists warn that oceans’ marine life on ‘brink of extinction’

LONDON — The world's oceans are degenerating far...

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 promises to quash corruption, but doesn’t offer specifics

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KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he...