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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...

Iraqis revel in period of relative quiet

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BAGHDAD — From the rickety upper deck of the small tour boat...

Libyan rebels reject proposal to end fighting

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan rebels delivered an emphatic no to an African Union proposal for an end to fighting in their country, insisting that Moammar Gadhafi must step down from power as part of any diplomatic solution...

Australian women convicted of cruelty over the death of a mouse

SYDNEY — An Australian animal welfare group Friday...

Three inmates killed in botched prison escape in Haiti

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — United Nations troops and Haitian National Police...

Haiti commercial flights restart Friday

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FORT WORTH, Texas — On Friday, commercial passenger jets will return to Haiti...

Refugees flee war and starvation in Somalia

NAIROBI, Kenya — To save themselves, Rahmo Ibrahim...

Major earthquake hits Haiti

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MIAMI — A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the capital of Haiti Tuesday afternoon, crippling the poor island nation and knocking out most of its communication with the outside world...