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Intent unclear in Baghdad crackdown on alcohol
BAGHDAD — It started in the Green Zone, with Iraqi soldiers ordering restaurants to stop serving alcohol and confiscating bottles from politicians at checkpoints...
U.S., other Haiti allies commit to 10-year rebuilding effort
MONTREAL — The United States and other allies of Haiti agreed Monday to a 10-year effort to rebuild Port-au-Prince and foster the long-term development that has eluded the Caribbean country despite decades of foreign assistance...
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...
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...
Iran train crash kills at least 8
BEIRUT — A train accident in northeastern Iran killed at least eight people Saturday and injured dozens of others, underscoring problems in Iran's transportation sector...
U.N. reports 111,481 confirmed deaths in four areas in Haiti
Statistics are a moving target in earthquake-shattered Haiti, shifting as often as the unsteady ground...
Questions remain about U.S. military presence in Haiti
WASHINGTON — As the number of U.S. soldiers in Haiti...
Relief groups in Haiti prepare for next stage of disaster: disease
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...
U.S. envoy leaves Mideast with little progress toward peace talks
JERUSALEM — As U.S. envoy George J. Mitchell...
New airfields, port reopening speed up aid to Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two aftershocks rattled Haiti...
