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Relief groups in Haiti prepare for next stage of disaster: disease

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Homeless camps of soiled, colored tarps fashioned into makeshift tents now dot this city, including a park next to Haiti's presidential palace. They are refuges for earthquake victims and giant Petri dishes for a plague...

At least 30 dead in attack on Pakistani mosque

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — At least 30 people were killed and...

Pakistani army officer arrested for alleged link to U.S. terror plot

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials have arrested a retired...

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 ...

Haiti assesses earthquake devastation; U.S. promises help

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Rescuers hunted for survivors Wednesday in the shattered landscape of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, as the world geared up for a major humanitarian effort in the wake of the earthquake that devastated the desperately poor Caribbean nation...

Troops hand out food, water in Haiti

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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...

Iraqi parliament passes crucial election law

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BAGHDAD — After nearly a dozen delays and a final, rowdy...

19 killed in courthouse bombing in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomb strike on a crowded courthouse in...

Korea activists target foreign English teachers

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SEOUL, South Korea — Sometimes, in his off hours, Yie Eun-woong does a bit of investigative work...

Moammar Gadhafi’s forces bomb Benghazi

SULTAN, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi's...

Gunmen kill at least 13 at Mexico party full of teen...

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MEXICO CITY — Gunmen stormed a party packed with teenage revelers in Ciudad Juarez early Sunday, killing at least 13 people in the latest spasm of violence to slam the border city, authorities said...