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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...
made popular May 4 2009
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...
made popular May 4 2009
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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AP, United Nations
Two small island nations, worried by rising sea levels, proposed drastic global cuts Thursday in the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a class of powerful greenhouse gases...
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AP, Pierre
A nearly 150-year-old treaty between the United States and a number of Indian tribes requires the U.S. government pay for the treatment and other losses of a Sioux...
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AP, United Nations
The Obama administration, in a major environmental policy shift, is preparing to ask 195 nations that ratified the U.N. ozone treaty to enact mandatory reductions in...
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AP, Washington
China wants to unload some of its emissions of heat-trapping gases onto the U.S. and other importers of its products.
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AP, Washington
For the United States to play a leadership role crafting a global warming treaty, negotiators say Congress and the Obama administration must enact limits this year to...
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AP, Washington
Negotiators for a new global warming treaty pressed Congress on Tuesday to approve legislation this year to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Attention all international readers, Mexico needs your help. Have you seen this island? Bermeja is about 80 kilometers in size and was last seen frolicking in the Gulf...
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AP, Brussels
European Union leaders agreed Friday to give concessions to Ireland so it will hold a new referendum on the EU’s stalled reform treaty, which aims to make the...
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AP, Brussels
Ireland will hold a second referendum on the European Union’s stalled reform treaty before the end of October 2009, the French government said Thursday.
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AP, Brussels
France says Ireland will vote again on the European Union’s stalled reform treaty next year.
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AP, United Nations
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly endorsed the idea of an unprecedented treaty regulating the global arms trade Friday, despite opposition from the United...
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Some of the Britain’s best-loved breeds including dachshunds, bulldogs could disappear in some few years due to the new animal welfare measures being adopted by...
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In the glittering Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan where President of India honours dignitaries, confers awards and holds swearing in ceremonies, lies a statue of...
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AP, Washington
A landmark treaty signed 40 years ago Tuesday by 61 countries is turning out to be more successful than predicted in keeping the nuclear weapons club small.But as a...
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AP, Warsaw
Ratifying the European Union’s reform treaty after Irish voters rejected it last month would be “pointless,” Poland’s president was quoted as...
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AP, Brussels
Ireland’s prime minister said Friday he regretted that Irish voters rejected the European Union’s reform treaty, a result that has plunged the EU into...
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AP, Luxembourg
Three days after Irish voters rejected a treaty seeking major reforms to the European Union, the bloc’s 27 members on Monday began the search for an exit from yet...
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Diplomats from 111 nations formally adopted a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs on Friday after futile calls for participation by the weapons’ biggest makers...
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AP, Berlin
The German parliament’s upper house approved the European Union’s new treaty on Friday _ the document’s last legislative hurdle in the 27-nation...
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In this Aug. 26, 2008 file photo, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., addresses the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Boxer plans a concerted effort to seek ratification of a United Nations global women’s rights treaty completed 30 years ago as part...
