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Bahrain declares state of emergency

MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain's...

8 nations map 1.2 bil. yen project to save tropical forests

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TOKYO — Japan, the United States and six European countries...

Mexico drug gangs turn weapons on army

MEXICO CITY — Drug traffickers fighting to control northern Mexico...

Magnitude 8.9 earthquake rocks Japan

BEIJING and TOKYO — The worst earthquake in generations struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, setting off a devastating tsunami that swallowed swaths of coastal territory and fanned out across the Pacific Ocean, threatening everything in its path...

Scientists digging in Tibet find woolly rhinoceros fossil believed to be...

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LOS ANGELES — Searching across the Tibetan plateau...

Mexico’s drug wars will be top agenda item when Calderon meets...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama shuns talk of a "war on drugs." But when he welcomes Mexican President Felipe Calderon to the White House...

Jamaica arrests alleged gun, drug trafficker after monthlong search

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Ending a monthlong search that has cost 76 people their lives, Jamaican authorities on Tuesday captured Christopher "Dudus" Coke, 42, an alleged trafficker in guns and drugs who is also wanted in the United States...

Cambodian men run slavery risk on region’s fishing boats

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Sok Sopheng was 21 when an employment agent offered him the chance of a job in neighboring Thailand...

Subway bombing latest blow in war between Russia, militants

MOSCOW — The suicide bombs that roared through Moscow...