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Twin bombings kill at least 22 in Pakistan
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...
China remains passive as Korean standoff escalates
BEIJING — South Korea warned Friday that it will order airstrikes if North Korea again launches artillery at the South, raising its military posture as Pyongyang reportedly deployed new rockets capable of hitting the South Korean capital...
In Cuba, bringing a message or help can lead to jail
MIAMI — Jan Bubenik went to Cuba to "spread the hope" but did everything wrong...
Deadly blasts in eastern Afghanistan wound 9 Western troops
KABUL — Two explosions in eastern Afghanistan...
‘Chemical Ali’ is executed by Iraqi government
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government Monday hanged Ali Hassan Majid, one of the most notorious figures from Saddam Hussein's regime, who had earned the nickname "Chemical Ali" for his gassing of the Kurds in the late 1980s...
Haitians sleeping in the streets in fear of another quake
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The ritual began just as the soft winter sun ducked behind the mountains Sunday, casting haunting shadows on this jittery Caribbean capital...
North Korean leader in China seeking cash, clout
BEIJING — North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Il arrived Monday in China, making a rare trip outside his hermit kingdom in search of money and support from his country's last political patron...
Troops hand out food, water in Haiti
CITE SOLEIL, Haiti — Trucks packed with North Carolina-based paratroopers and United Nations soldiers from Brazil rumbled into this Port-Au-Prince suburb Sunday to unleash the most potent weapons in their current mission: food and water...
