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Tymoshenko under pressure to concede in presidential race

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KIEV, Ukraine — Pressure swelled on Monday for Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to bow out gracefully from a hard-fought and narrowly lost presidential race...

Trying to tame Tokyo’s adult playground

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TOKYO — Masatoshi Shimbo...

Iraqi parliament again delays vote on allowing direct elections

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament failed again Tuesday to vote on...

U.N. reports 111,481 confirmed deaths in four areas in Haiti

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Statistics are a moving target in earthquake-shattered Haiti, shifting as often as the unsteady ground...

Supertanker seized off coast of Somalia

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LONDON — A supertanker bound from Saudi Arabia to New...

U.S. expands Mexico travel warning

More violence over a wider area in Mexico has caused the U.S. State Department to expand a warning against travel to the country...

Twin bombings kill at least 22 in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD — Two bomb blasts targeting a bus filled with Shiite Muslims and later a hospital in Karachi on Friday killed at least 22 people in the latest outbreak of violence plaguing the troubled, nuclear-armed state...

U.S. citizens arrested while helping Haitian orphans, church member says

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Sean Lankford said his wife and daughter were among 10 people arrested at the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic as they were moving 33 orphans to new housing...

U.S., Mexico pledge to fight drug money, gun trafficking

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. government Tuesday pledged greater cooperation with Mexico...

North threatens another attack on island as S. Korea plans drills

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SEOUL — Tempers flared Friday as North Korea warned South Korea...

Bahrain declares state of emergency

MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain's...