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Death toll in Philippine floods climbs to nearly 1,500

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MANILA — The death toll from floods in the southern...

Deadly attack in Afghanistan was the work of Taliban

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KABUL — A suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers and contractors and wounded six others at an isolated CIA base in eastern Afghanistan...

Libya rebels, Gadhafi regime hold indirect talks

BEIRUT — Indirect talks on the future of Libya have...

Haiti business community seeks to help rebuild economy

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A few blocks from where men lined up for backbreaking jobs digging corpses from the rubble for about $3 a day, a hotel was selling a ham sandwich for five times that amount...

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'...

Uprising in Libya against Gadhafi escalates

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CAIRO, Egypt—Civilians with weapons seized from overrun army bases fought Sunday for control of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi as residents accused troops and mercenaries trying to crush an uprising against President Moammar Gadhafi of massacring more than 200 ...

E coli outbreak spreads to 12 countries

BERLIN — The E coli outbreak centred in northern...

Death toll rises in Mexico party shooting

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MEXICO CITY — Authorities in Ciudad Juarez...

Hostage describes narrow escape from Colombia’s FARC

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Police Sgt. Luis Alberto Erazo was...