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Afghan election commission declares Karzai the winner
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai was vested with...
Africa’s population boom traps children in poverty
KANO, Nigeria — The boy stepped into the grubby street...
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...
Pakistan insists American who shot 2 in alleged robbery attempt is...
ISLAMABAD — The U.S. citizen who shot to death two motorcyclists in the eastern city of Lahore last month works with the CIA...
9 protesters reportedly killed as demonstrations erupt across Syria
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A battered but still boisterous...
`Carlos the Jackal’ goes on trial over 1980s French bombings
PARIS — Jailed Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramirez...
Newly elected Honduran president seeks international approval
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras awoke Monday with three...
U.S., West cool to Karzai’s call for peace with Taliban
LONDON — Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Thursday at a gathering of world leaders for an invigorated international peace effort with the Taliban, starting with an initial meeting in a few weeks...
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...
Magnitude 8.9 earthquake rocks Japan
BEIJING and TOKYO — The worst earthquake in generations struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, setting off a devastating tsunami that swallowed swaths of coastal territory and fanned out across the Pacific Ocean, threatening everything in its path...
