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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
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AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
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AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
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AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
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AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
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AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
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AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
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AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
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AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
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AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
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AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
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It has been correctly said that travel educates you like nothing else. I have been fortunate to get an opportunity to spend three years in the...
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Afghanistan has recently made some progress on the diplomatic front. Karzai has recently been in a tough arguement with his western backers. On the diplomatic front his...
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A few hours ago, on 12th February, 2009, at 7p.m. Moscow Time, the Ambassador of Slovakia to Russia, Mr. Augustine Chisaro was robbed in a Moscow’s Rublevka Shosse...
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AP, Cairo
The official Egyptian news agency says a top Hamas leader is reporting that the Islamic militant group agreed to a long-term truce deal with Israel for the Gaza Strip.
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AP, Cairo
Egyptian mediators and Hamas reported progress Thursday in their talks to work out a long-term truce deal between the Palestinian militant group and Israel over the...
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AP, Cairo
Egypt’s official news agency says officials from the militant Hamas group are talking with an Egyptian mediator about a long-term truce deal with Israel over the...
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AP, Cairo
In a sign of progress on a deal to end the Gaza crisis, Egypt has invited rival Palestinian factions to a reconciliation conference in Cairo this month, a Palestinian...
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AP, Cairo
Hamas negotiators left Egypt without a long-term cease-fire with Israel on Thursday _ but not before some members of the militant group’s delegation were stopped...
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Merely 12 hours after the departure of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon from its soil, Pakistan dropped ample indications that it can never come clean in its war...
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AP, Cairo
Hamas is ready to commit to a yearlong cease-fire with Israel in exchange for a full opening of Gaza’s border crossings, the militant group’s officials said...
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AP, Cairo
A Hamas delegation will hold what a spokesman called Monday a final round of talks with Egyptian mediators aimed at reaching a long-term cease-fire with Israel.
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In what New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has described as sending “a strong message” Pacific Forum leaders have voted to suspend Fiji from the Forum unless the...
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AP, Washington
It won’t thrill health advocates, but U.S.-based foreign diplomats with a taste for tobacco can rejoice: their smokes are now tax-free.
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AP, Paris
French troops, Turkish monitors, British ships, German tunnel detectors, European radar equipment _ officials say all these options are being weighed as they try to...
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AP, Kuwait City
The deeply divided Arab League failed on Tuesday to come up with a plan to reconstruct the devastated Gaza Strip and could not agree on whether to back Egyptian peace...
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AP, Kuwait City
Arab countries have been unable to agree on a unified statement about the Gaza Strip following Israel’s devastating three-week offensive, Iraq’s foreign...
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AP, Kuwait City
Iraq’s foreign minister says Arab countries have been unable to agree on a unified statement about the Gaza Strip following Israel’s devastating three-week...
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AP, London
European nations accustomed to taking a back seat to the United States have taken a lead role in the bid to permanently quell the fighting between Israel and Hamas...
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AP, Kuwait City
The Saudi king said Monday his country will donate $1 billion to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after the devastating Israeli offensive and told Israel that an Arab...
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Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, top right, and NATO’s Secretary General Japp De Hoop Sheffer, top left, talk with the participants of North Atlantic Council, during a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday March 18, 2009. A delegation of...
