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U.S. expands Mexico travel warning
More violence over a wider area in Mexico has caused the U.S. State Department to expand a warning against travel to the country...
Israel under fire for its use of targeted killings
JERUSALEM — When Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman faced questions Monday from European diplomats over Israel's suspected role in the Dubai assassination of a Hamas militant, he responded with familiar indignation: Why is Israel always the first to be ...
Pope praises Michelangelo nudes as ‘spiritual’
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Friday lauded...
Britons shocked by video of nurse turning off quadriplegic’s life-support system
LONDON — Jamie Merrett...
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...
$180 million in cocaine seized from drug sub in Caribbean Sea,...
MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard has announced the...
Laos continues to block public access to deported Hmong tribesmen
WASHINGTON — A California congressman has joined human rights activists in voicing concern over the treatment of ethnic Hmong deported by Thailand late last year to their native Laos and now being confined in isolated villages inaccessible to international news ...
Taliban who downed SEALs’ helicopter are killed, officials say
KABUL, Afghanistan — An American airstrike killed the...
Libya rebels, Gadhafi regime hold indirect talks
BEIRUT — Indirect talks on the future of Libya have...
Massive Baghdad bombing casts doubt on Iraqi security, elections
BAGHDAD — Suicide bombers in cars packed with explosives killed at least 132 people and wounded 600 more outside Iraqi government buildings Sunday morning in nearly simultaneous blasts that were powerful even by Baghdad's...
