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Suspected Hindu hard-liners set fire Monday to an orphanage run by Christian missionaries in eastern India, killing one woman and seriously injuring a priest, police said.
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Thousands of Armenians lined the streets of the capital Saturday to protest the first-ever visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War...
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Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest brokerage group, is considering buying a stake in U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, a Japanese newspaper reported...
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Police say at least 12 people are dead after a suicide car bomber struck a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s volatile northwest.
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Once open only to the ruling elite, Thailand’s stately Government House has turned into a cross between a refugee camp and a village fairground.
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An overnight raid early Friday killed six militants and two civilians in western Afghanistan, the U.S. coalition said.
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The Philippine military says Muslim rebels have attacked two southern villages, killed a local official and burned houses in a new escalation of fighting.
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Muslim guerrillas killed four soldiers and four militiamen in an ambush of a military convoy Sunday in the volatile southern Philippines, officials said.
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Muslim guerrillas killed four soldiers and three militiamen in an ambush on a military convoy Sunday in the volatile southern Philippines, officials said.
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The Philippine Supreme Court opened a hearing Friday on an autonomy agreement with Muslim rebels, as tensions remained high with the discovery of another homemade bomb...
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Colombians travel back along the San Miguel river from Puerto Nuevo in Ecuador, to Teteye in Colombia, after buying cheaper food, natural gas, and gasoline Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008. Puerto Nuevo is a town of transients near the Ecuador-Colombia border with...
