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S.C. Senator forces U.S. change on Honduras stance on elections
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican...
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...
Pakistan bombings kill 40 as government fights for survival
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than 40 Pakistanis were killed in...
Venezuelan consul in Miami ordered to leave U.S.
MIAMI — The United States has ordered the expulsion...
Mexico drug gangs turn weapons on army
MEXICO CITY — Drug traffickers fighting to control northern Mexico...
2 blasts kill at least 43 at Pakistan bazaar
ISLAMABAD — Two suicide bomb blasts spaced just 15 seconds apart rocked the eastern city of Lahore on Friday, killing at least 43 people and sparking fears of a new wave of militant violence in Pakistan's major cities following a period of relative calm...
At least 113 dead after quake-triggered tsunami hits Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia — At least 113 people were killed after a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake slammed into villages on Indonesia's Mentawai islands, officials and aid workers said Tuesday...
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'...
At least 80 die in shooting rampage in Norway
LONDON — A horrific shooting rampage at a youth...
Haitian prime minister likely on way out
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As Haiti's lawmakers appeared poised...
Raul Castro says Cuba has one million excess jobs
MIAMI — The stunning figure was revealed by Cuban leader Raul Castro himself: The Cuban government and its enterprises might have more than one million excess workers on their payrolls...
