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U.N. to scale back in Kabul as it ponders better security

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KABUL — A week after a jarring pre-dawn attack killed five...

Haiti’s cholera epidemic reaches the Dominican Republic

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MIAMI — Health authorities in the Dominican Republic confirmed the nation's first case of cholera, just says after the government took drastic steps to limit border traffic with Haiti, where an epidemic has taken more than 1,000 lives...

Hundreds of thousands join Egypt protests

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CAIRO — More than 200,000 protesters streamed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday for the largest demonstration in a week of unrest against Egypt's embattled government, and international pressure on President Hosni Mubarak intensified...

In Haiti, the middle class and impoverished share the same despair

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — After he lost everything in the Haiti...

Egyptian court halts virginity tests on female protesters

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CAIRO — A Cairo court has ruled against forced virginity tests on female protesters detained in military prisons...

Haiti business community seeks to help rebuild economy

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A few blocks from where men lined up for backbreaking jobs digging corpses from the rubble for about $3 a day, a hotel was selling a ham sandwich for five times that amount...

12-year-old heart transplant patient returns to Japan from U.S.

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NARITA, Japan — A 12-year-old boy who received a heart transplant in the United States in July has returned home to Japan and is looking forward to seeing his friends again...

Bombing kills 3 U.S. soldiers, 4 Pakistanis

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ISLAMABAD — Three U.S. soldiers involved in training members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps were among seven people killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb outside a girls school in northwest Pakistan, a setback for a program regarded as vital to the defeat ...

Moscow airport bomb kills at least 31, injures more than 130

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MOSCOW — An apparent terrorist bombing Monday at a crowded arrivals terminal at an airport near Moscow left at least 31 people dead and more than 130 injured, Russian officials said...

Double bombing kills at least 32 in Iraq

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BAGHDAD — A double bombing Friday in the southern city of Karbala...

Bomb hits outside suspected Pakistani nuclear-weapons site

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide bomber attacked a suspected...