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Israel under fire for its use of targeted killings
JERUSALEM — When Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman faced questions Monday from European diplomats over Israel's suspected role in the Dubai assassination of a Hamas militant, he responded with familiar indignation: Why is Israel always the first to be ...
Twin bombings kill at least 22 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — Two bomb blasts targeting a bus filled with Shiite Muslims and later a hospital in Karachi on Friday killed at least 22 people in the latest outbreak of violence plaguing the troubled, nuclear-armed state...
Obama, Japanese prime minister plan anti-nuclear initiative
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and President...
International earthquake relief begins arriving in a devastated Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, and MEXICO CITY — Promised emergency aid from abroad began flowing into Haiti's...
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...
Suspect in Norway attacks charged, denied public platform in court
OSLO, Norway — It was supposed to be a defining moment for Norwegian terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik...
Nigerian villagers slain in brutal machete attack buried in mass graves
LAGOS, Nigeria — The victims of Sunday's sectarian massacres were buried in mass graves in central Nigeria...
Flooding forces North Korea to evacuate 5,000
SEOUL, South Korea — Torrential downpours caused the rain-swollen Yalu River on the North Korea-China...
Haitian prime minister defends handling of the dead
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In Haiti, funerals are as expensive as weddings, tombs often more elaborate than the homes of the living...
Three inmates killed in botched prison escape in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — United Nations troops and Haitian National Police...
