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Underwater volcano erupts, could create new island
TOKYO — An underwater volcanic eruption was detected Wednesday morning close to Minami-Iwoto island in the Pacific Ocean and an expert speculated that the eruption could form a permanent island...
Bombing kills 3 U.S. soldiers, 4 Pakistanis
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 ...
Iraqi judges strike down ban on candidates tied to Saddam’s regime
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of candidates accused of ties to the outlawed Baath Party will be allowed to participate in Iraq's upcoming election after a decision Wednesday by judges to defer hearing their appeals until after the poll...
Ruling Yemen gets even more complicated
SANA, Yemen — President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who once described ruling Yemen...
Haiti business community seeks to help rebuild economy
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...
Concerns grow over al-Qaida’s group in Yemen
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen has emerged as the "foremost concern" for U.S. spy agencies after the group was tied to two attacks in the United States...
