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KABUL, Afghanistan - The arrests of top Taliban figures in Pakistan abruptly halted secret U.N. contacts with the insurgency at a time when the ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian officials said Friday that they understand President Barack Obama's decision to postpone his trip to Asia over a crucial health ...
MOSCOW - Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a ...
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young ...
PHILADELPHIA - If the woman dubbed "Jihad Jane" goes on trial, she would become just the second American woman tried on U.S. soil on ...
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - In the capital of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Taliban roam the streets freely. Barely a kilometre outside Lashkar Gah, they wield ...
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's ruling military junta decided to release a naturalized American citizen from prison because of its friendship with the U.S. government, ...
BAGHDAD - Dozens of Iraqi journalists waited hours for results in Iraq's election. What they finally got was a single CD containing all the ...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama promised to make overhauling the immigration system a top priority in his first year as president. He's now in ...
TOKYO - Japanese fish dealers on Friday welcomed the rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna - a prized ingredient of ...
LONDON - The World Health Organization says it doesn't have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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SAN FRANCISCO - When their mother went into labour with no one else around, a 9-year-old California boy and his 11-year-old sister quickly responded ...
KABUL, Afghanistan - Pakistan's recent arrests of top Taliban leaders have halted the United Nation's secret talks with the insurgency, the U.N.'s former envoy ...
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela has asked authorities in Spain to detail their accusations against an alleged ETA operative accused of helping the Basque separatist ...
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan human rights groups expressed outrage Thursday over a judge's decision to release a former army colonel convicted of killing a ...
