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2 blasts kill at least 43 at Pakistan bazaar

ISLAMABAD — Two suicide bomb blasts spaced just 15 seconds apart rocked the eastern city of Lahore on Friday, killing at least 43 people and sparking fears of a new wave of militant violence in Pakistan's major cities following a period of relative calm...

Allegations of fraud surround vote-counting process in Iraq

BAGHDAD — As the first, incomplete results from Iraq's...

Land mines take a toll on Colombia’s poor

MANZANARES, Colombia — Colombia...

Nigerian villagers slain in brutal machete attack buried in mass graves

LAGOS, Nigeria — The victims of Sunday's sectarian massacres were buried in mass graves in central Nigeria...

Laos continues to block public access to deported Hmong tribesmen

WASHINGTON — A California congressman has joined human rights activists in voicing concern over the treatment of ethnic Hmong deported by Thailand late last year to their native Laos and now being confined in isolated villages inaccessible to international news ...

Quake-devastated Chile deploys troops to halt looting, facilitate aid

CONSTITUCION, Chile — Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said Tuesday that nearly 14,000 army and navy troops deployed throughout Chile's earthquake-devastated coastal communities had contained looting and were clearing the way for aid to be distributed...

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...