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Defying the West, Iran’s president orders hike in nuclear enrichment
ROME AND BEIRUT — In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
Asylum seekers on wrecked boat drown off Australian island
SYDNEY, Australia — At least 30 asylum seekers drowned after their boat ran onto rocks on reaching Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island, officials said Wednesday...
Deadly attack in Afghanistan was the work of Taliban
KABUL — A suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers and contractors and wounded six others at an isolated CIA base in eastern Afghanistan...
Bodies lining Haiti’s roadsides are the grim tally of disaster
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The damage in Haiti's capital seemed nearly random...
40 Cuban dissidents beaten, detained after visiting political prisoner’s tomb, activists...
MIAMI — Cuban security agents beat and detained about 40 dissidents after the mother of the late political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo and her supporters prayed at his tomb, activists reported Monday...
In wake of sex scandal, Northern Ireland’s top leader steps down
LONDON — Northern Ireland's...
Car bomb in Pakistan marketplace kills 34
ISLAMABAD — A car bomb blast tore through a crowded market...
Allegations of fraud surround vote-counting process in Iraq
BAGHDAD — As the first, incomplete results from Iraq's...
Iraqi Shiite group claims it is holding American hostage
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi Shiite group with close ties to Iran has claimed in a videotape Saturday it was holding an American hostage who is believed to be an El Cajon, Calif., man reported missing in Baghdad by the Pentagon...
