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Assailants hurl grenades into Mexico plaza crowd, injuring at least 14
MEXICO CITY — Families were out for the night air, taking a stroll in the central plaza in the northern Mexico city of Guadalupe...
40 Cuban dissidents beaten, detained after visiting political prisoner’s tomb, activists...
MIAMI — Cuban security agents beat and detained about 40 dissidents after the mother of the late political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo and her supporters prayed at his tomb, activists reported Monday...
Trial for accused in Japan stabbing rampage to hinge on criminal...
TOKYO — The 10th and final arraignment procedure before the trial this month of Tomohiro Kato, who was indicted on homicide and other charges stemming from his alleged indiscriminate rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district in 2008, has been completed at the Tokyo ...
Corruption in Afghanistan isn’t limited to Afghans, U.S. official says
KABUL — About three-fourths of the ongoing corruption investigations led by U.S. oversight officials in Afghanistan are targeting suspects who aren't Afghan nationals, the top U.S. investigator in Afghanistan said Tuesday in Kabul...
Suspect in Norway attacks charged, denied public platform in court
OSLO, Norway — It was supposed to be a defining moment for Norwegian terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik...
Resilient Haitians reopen for business
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — Henri St. Cir's neighbors think he's nuts. While they meander in increasingly squalid conditions of Haiti's capital, living on the sidewalk, their homes and businesses destroyed, he is reopening his Internet cafe amid the ruins...
Israeli soldiers kill at least 10 protesters on boat carrying supplies...
JERUSALEM — Israeli naval ships seized control of a protest flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 10 people and sparking widespread international condemnation...
Ahmadinejad’s New York visit to dominate U.N. nuclear meeting
WASHINGTON — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plan to attend an international conference on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons this week in New York threatens to turn the meeting into a diplomatic confrontation between the United States and Iran over Iran'...
Bodies lining Haiti’s roadsides are the grim tally of disaster
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The damage in Haiti's capital seemed nearly random...
U.S. blames al-Qaida in Iraq for Baghdad bombing spree
BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomb detonated outside the Iraqi Interior Ministry's forensics department in Baghdad Tuesday, killing more than 18 people and severely damaging the building in the second consecutive day of high-profile attacks...
Spring break may be broken for Mexico resorts
When it comes to Mexican tourism, when Ciudad Juarez sneezes, Rosarito Beach catches a cold...