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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...
World’s oldest person dies at 114 in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — The world's oldest person according...
Newly elected Honduran president seeks international approval
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras awoke Monday with three...
U.S. military relies on Afghan police while working to clean them...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A group Georgia National Guard soldiers joined Lt. Col. Mir Salam Adamkhil, a Kabul...
‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly reportedly wins Haiti election
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A carnival singer who reinvented himself into a polished political outsider is poised to become Haiti's new president, according to several sources familiar with the results that are expected to be released later Monday...
Dubai World, bankers set to meet Monday on revamp plan
TEL AVIV — International bankers are scheduled to meet Monday with Dubai officials to discuss Dubai World's effort to reach a standstill agreement on its billions of dollars of debt...
In Pakistan, militants begin to establish new strongholds
ISLAMABAD — Since the Pakistani army launched a long-awaited...
New version of law deals Iraq elections another setback
BAGHDAD — Hopes for a January election in Iraq faded Monday...
Taliban: Reports of bin Laden’s death greatly exaggerated
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Taliban, who sheltered Osama bin Laden when they governed the country prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said Tuesday that it would be "premature" to comment on U.S. claims that the al-Qaida leader had been killed ...
Haiti’s cholera epidemic reaches the Dominican Republic
MIAMI — Health authorities in the Dominican Republic confirmed the nation's first case of cholera, just says after the government took drastic steps to limit border traffic with Haiti, where an epidemic has taken more than 1,000 lives...
U.S. officials see new threat in Americans training in Yemen
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials believe that as many as three dozen Americans who converted to Islam while in prison in the United States have traveled to Yemen over the past year, possibly to be trained by al-Qaida, according to a Senate report...
