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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...
Pakistani Islamists attack civilians for 3rd day, killing 24
ISLAMABAD — At least 24 people were killed Tuesday in the...
Polygamist South African president acknowledges fathering child out of wedlock
JOHANNESBURG — President Jacob Zuma...
U.N. to scale back in Kabul as it ponders better security
KABUL — A week after a jarring pre-dawn attack killed five...
Al-Qaida threat growing in Yemen, experts say
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida is growing stronger in Yemen, fueled by anger toward the Yemeni government, anti-American sentiment and the return of Yemenis who fought the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. experts and intelligence officials told the Senate Foreign ...
Japan economy grows more than expected
TOKYO — Japan's economy grew more than expected in the July...
At least 30 dead in attack on Pakistani mosque
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — At least 30 people were killed and...
U.S., Iraqi officials claim major victory against al-Qaida in Iraq
BAGHDAD — Iraqi and U.S. security forces said Monday that they'd killed the two top leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq...
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...
Gunmen kill at least 13 at Mexico party full of teen...
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...
Northern Ireland in uproar over lawmaker’s secret affair with teen
LONDON — The threat of renewed sectarian violence is at its highest in years. But it's a seamy affair between Northern Ireland's...
