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Haiti president pleads for tents; nearly 500 schools destroyed by quake
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — One family has used a Haitian flag to pitch its tent at Mais Gate, a shantytown for the homeless near Port-au-Prince airport. Another fashioned its tent from a five-by-five cloth adorned with an image of Jesus...
U.S. troops at Guantanamo take on new mission: Haitian relief
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba...
Murdoch-owned British tabloid accused of intercepting voicemail of slain girl
LONDON — For months, Britain's scandal over...
5 Western troops killed in Afghanistan
KABUL — Reflecting a quickening tempo of combat in Afghanistan...
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...
Afghan leader urges coalition troops to curb civilian deaths
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai...
Corruption in Afghanistan isn’t limited to Afghans, U.S. official says
KABUL — About three-fourths of the ongoing corruption investigations led by U.S. oversight officials in Afghanistan are targeting suspects who aren't Afghan nationals, the top U.S. investigator in Afghanistan said Tuesday in Kabul...
At least 26 killed in brutal attacks across Iraq
BAGHDAD — Assailants killed a family of eight on Monday, shooting some and beheading others in a brutal attack south of Baghdad reminiscent of the sectarian killings that raged through the area a few years back...
