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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...
Karzai to accept fraud-audit results; government deal uncertain
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai was expected to announce Tuesday his acceptance of a U.N.-backed fraud audit reducing his vote in the August election to less than 50 percent, but it wasn't clear if he'd consent to a deal with his chief rival to ...
In Cuba, bringing a message or help can lead to jail
MIAMI — Jan Bubenik went to Cuba to "spread the hope" but did everything wrong...
Karzai impersonator tests limits of Afghan free speech
KABUL — Everyone around the Afghan capital seems to recognize his voice, but almost no one knows his face...
Iran rejects U.S. request to return spy drone
TEHRAN and BEIRUT — Iran on Tuesday rebuffed a U.S...
Libyan rebels reject proposal to end fighting
BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan rebels delivered an emphatic no to an African Union proposal for an end to fighting in their country, insisting that Moammar Gadhafi must step down from power as part of any diplomatic solution...
Defying U.N., Afghans to keep fraud-marred polling centers
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a rebuff to the United Nations, an...
China remains passive as Korean standoff escalates
BEIJING — South Korea warned Friday that it will order airstrikes if North Korea again launches artillery at the South, raising its military posture as Pyongyang reportedly deployed new rockets capable of hitting the South Korean capital...
