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2008 Campaign
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WASHINGTON - The United States is ready to drop North Korea from a terrorism blacklist, the Associated...
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MOGADISHU, Somalia - Armed pirates hijacked another massive tanker as world powers on Saturday headed...
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JERUSALEM - A 12-year-old cancer-stricken Iranian boy arrived at an Israeli hospital on today for emergency treatment on his brain tumor.
The...
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PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico - As Norbert bore down on Mexico’s southern Baja California peninsula,...
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WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said yesterday that the Bush administration will move ahead with a plan to buy stock in financial...
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LONDON - European stock markets slumped in early trading Friday following massive sell-offs on Wall Street and Asia as lending rates between...
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BUDAPEST, Hungary - NATO defense ministers today authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to US$100...
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NEW YORK - Stock markets plummeted still lower on Wall Street and around the world today despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede. The...
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TOKYO - Japan is set to propose to the world’s leading industrialized nations that a joint fund be set up to give emergency loans to nations...
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NAIROBI, Kenya - The pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off the coast of Somalia threatened today to destroy the ship if no...
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Sudanese detainee transferred out of Guantanamo has vowed to campaign for the release of the roughly 255 inmates remaining...
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KINSHASA, Congo - Congo has accused neighboring Rwanda of sending troops across the border and fighting in support of a Congolese warlord. A...
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South Africa’s former defense minister — the man who resigned to protest the ouster of Thabo Mbeki —...
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OL PEJETA, Kenya - Patrick Muriithi has some common parenting concerns: how to stop Max from sneaking out at night, whether it’s OK to...
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MEXICO CITY - Hurricane Norbert has strengthened to a powerful, Category 4 storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast.
A Category 5 storm is the...
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MEXICO CITY - Hurricane Norbert strengthened into a powerful Category 2 storm over the Pacific Ocean and forecasters warned that it could...
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JUAREZ - A half-ton, bedridden Mexican who appealed on TV for help tackling his weight problem died yesterday of heart failure.
Emergency...
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WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Tuesday to immediately release a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo...
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GUATEMALA CITY - An armed man in a jealous rage took 42 hostages in a Guatemala City call center on Monday and released them unharmed and turned...
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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea released pictures of leader Kim Jong Il today for the first time in nearly two months, showing the reclusive...
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BEIJING - China’s State Council tightened quality control regulations for the dairy industry Friday, as authorities in Macau and Hong Kong...
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NEW DELHI - Surgeons successfully removed gallstones from the Dalai Lama on Friday, an operation that will not prevent the Tibetan spiritual...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - U.S. missile attacks on suspected militants in Pakistan’s northwest near Afghanistan are destabilizing the country...
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VIENNA, Austria - North Korea moved closer yesterday to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate the facility...
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VIENNA, Austria - Joerg Haider, who turned his right-wing party into a powerful force in Austrian politics with a mix of in-your-face attacks...
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MOSCOW - There’s no doubt what Vladimir Putin’s favorite birthday present is this year — a rare Ussuri tiger cub.
State...
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BUDAPEST, Hungary - NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to US$100...
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OSLO, Norway - Finland’s ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace...
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TKVIAVI, Georgia - Russia has only partially met its obligations under an EU-negotiated cease-fire, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner...
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BAGHDAD - A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists’ group...
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BAGHDAD - Iraq’s prime minister said today that the country’s most influential Shiite cleric will leave the decision on the future...
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AMMAN, Jordan - Two American journalists who went missing during a vacation in Lebanon were quoted Friday as saying they were "kidnapped" by...
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ACRE, Israel - Police dispersed hundreds of Jewish protesters with water canons Friday in this northern Israel city, trying to ease tensions...
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BUDAPEST, Hungary - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked NATO allies Friday to consider increasing troop levels in Afghanistan next year...
