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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 ...
China remains passive as Korean standoff escalates
BEIJING — South Korea warned Friday that it will order airstrikes if North Korea again launches artillery at the South, raising its military posture as Pyongyang reportedly deployed new rockets capable of hitting the South Korean capital...
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...
Powers of ailing Nigerian president are transferred to his deputy
LAGOS, Nigeria — Good luck, Jonathan...
8 nations map 1.2 bil. yen project to save tropical forests
TOKYO — Japan, the United States and six European countries...
French president makes historic visit to Haiti, pledges help
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced in a landmark visit Wednesday that his country would cancel Haiti"s $56 million...
North Korean leader in China seeking cash, clout
BEIJING — North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Il arrived Monday in China, making a rare trip outside his hermit kingdom in search of money and support from his country's last political patron...
Gadhafi denounces Libya’s ‘traitors’ and the West as fighting continues
TRIPOLI, Libya — In a defiant speech broadcast early Wednesday, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi...
Clinton warns China, others over Internet restrictions
WASHINGTON — In a new warning to China, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton...
