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Trapped Chilean miners confirmed alive after more than 14 days

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SANTIAGO, Chile — Miners who have been trapped for more than 14 days in a copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert are alive, President Sebastian Pinera said Sunday...

At least 69 killed in weekend bombings, shootings in Iraq

BAGHDAD — Weekend bombings and shootings in Iraq...

152 presumed dead in Pakistani plane crash

ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani passenger plane crashed into the hills that flank Islamabad on Wednesday with 152 people on board, including two Americans, officials and witnesses said. Apparently no one survived...

Haiti, Dominican Republic now have smoother, but fragile, relationship

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — It wasn't so long ago when the president of the Dominican Republic visited neighboring Haiti, protesters blocked his motorcade by burning tires and hurling rocks...

U.S., South Korea vow ‘show of force’ in military exercises aimed...

SEOUL — The United States and South Korea on Tuesday announced joint major military exercises for next week, a show of force aimed at North Korea in response to the sinking of a South Korean warship in March...

Castro makes rare appearance on Cuban TV

MEXICO CITY — What he said mattered so much less than the fact he said it, or said anything at all...

NATO kills 5 Afghan soldiers in mistaken airstrike

KABUL, Afghanistan — Gen. David H. Petraeus...