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Defying U.N., Afghans to keep fraud-marred polling centers

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KABUL, Afghanistan — In a rebuff to the United Nations, an...

Boy rescued 8 days after quake now a Haitian celebrity

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A little over a week ago, 5-year-old Monley Elize...

Scientists drill beneath Dead Sea in search of priceless data

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DEAD SEA — If you thought you couldn't get any lower than the Dead Sea, think again. You can go under it...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper attacked by pro-Mubarak mob in Cairo

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NEW YORK — CNN's Anderson Cooper and his production crew were attacked by a group of demonstrators in Egypt on Wednesday. Reporting from Cairo, Cooper said during a phone interview that he was punched in the head multiple times by supporters of President Hosni ...

New airfields, port reopening speed up aid to Haiti

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two aftershocks rattled Haiti...

Northern Ireland in uproar over lawmaker’s secret affair with teen

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LONDON — The threat of renewed sectarian violence is at its highest in years. But it's a seamy affair between Northern Ireland's...

Guantanamo prepares to house Haitians, if needed

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba...

Scientists digging in Tibet find woolly rhinoceros fossil believed to be...

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LOS ANGELES — Searching across the Tibetan plateau...

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...

Attack on Shiite procession in Pakistan kills at least 20

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ISLAMABAD — At least 20 people were killed Monday in a bombing of a Shiite Muslim religious procession in Karachi, Pakistan's...