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Troops hand out food, water in Haiti
CITE SOLEIL, Haiti — Trucks packed with North Carolina-based paratroopers and United Nations soldiers from Brazil rumbled into this Port-Au-Prince suburb Sunday to unleash the most potent weapons in their current mission: food and water...
Cambodian men run slavery risk on region’s fishing boats
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Sok Sopheng was 21 when an employment agent offered him the chance of a job in neighboring Thailand...
Libya bombing campaign targets Gadhafi’s air, ground forces
TRIPOLI, Libya — The second day of the Western military campaign against Moammar Gadhafi...
Iraqi judges strike down ban on candidates tied to Saddam’s regime
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of candidates accused of ties to the outlawed Baath Party will be allowed to participate in Iraq's upcoming election after a decision Wednesday by judges to defer hearing their appeals until after the poll...
At least 475 escape Afghanistan prison
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 475 inmates, many of them Islamic insurgents, escaped overnight from the main prison in the southern city of Kandahar, the spiritual home of the Taliban movement, authorities said...
Uprising in Libya against Gadhafi escalates
CAIRO, Egypt—Civilians with weapons seized from overrun army bases fought Sunday for control of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi as residents accused troops and mercenaries trying to crush an uprising against President Moammar Gadhafi of massacring more than 200 ...
Talks between North, South Korea collapse
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean negotiators on Wednesday walked out on a second day of talks between Pyongyang and Seoul...
Venezuelan consul in Miami ordered to leave U.S.
MIAMI — The United States has ordered the expulsion...
U.S. military relies on Afghan police while working to clean them...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A group Georgia National Guard soldiers joined Lt. Col. Mir Salam Adamkhil, a Kabul...
