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- Twin explosions rock British compound in Kabul
Friday - 08/19/2011 - 01:30 AMKABUL, Afghanistan — Two suicide bombers attacked a British compound in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing at least three people and wounding two, police and eyewitnesses said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bodies found in Mexico might be kidnapped marines
Friday - 08/19/2011 - 01:30 AMMEXICO CITY — The Mexican navy said Thursday it found bodies in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz that could include those of three marines and a naval cadet kidnapped by suspected drug cartel gunmen earlier this month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hurricane Greg forms far from Mexico in Pacific
Thursday - 08/18/2011 - 01:30 AMMIAMI — Forecasters say Hurricane Greg has formed and is farther away from Mexico's Pacific coast as it strengthens. No watches or warnings are out.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Aruba probes insurance in missing tourist case
Thursday - 08/18/2011 - 01:32 AMORANJESTAD, Aruba — A U.S. tourist detained in the presumed death of his travel companion had an insurance policy that covered the missing woman, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Clinton launches business loan program in Haiti
Tuesday - 08/16/2011 - 09:02 PMPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police: 11 people slain in Acapulco, Mexico
Monday - 08/15/2011 - 01:30 AMACAPULCO, Mexico — Nearly a dozen people were slain in violent attacks over the weekend in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, police said Sunday.
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Monday - 08/15/2011 - 01:30 AMORANJESTAD, Aruba — A U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Heavy clashes as Libyan rebels enter Zawiya
Sunday - 08/14/2011 - 01:30 AMBIR SHAEB, Libya — Libyan rebels fought their way into the strategic city of Zawiya west of Tripoli on Saturday in their most significant advance in months, battling snipers on rooftops and heavy shelling from Moammar Gadhafi's forces holding the city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tropical depression forms SE of Bermuda
Sunday - 08/14/2011 - 01:30 AMMIAMI — Forecasters say a new tropical depression has formed southeast of Bermuda. The National Hurricane Center said late Saturday that the storm was about 360 miles (579 kilometers) south-southeast of Bermuda.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.K. riots raise questions about U.S. unrest
Saturday - 08/13/2011 - 03:31 PM
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- Ex-Colombia president denies domestic spying role
Friday - 08/19/2011 - 01:30 AMBOGOTA, Colombia — Former President Alvaro Uribe has denied before a Colombian congressional committee that he ordered the country's domestic intelligence agency to spy on judges, journalists and political foes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mexico closes slaughterhouse with tainted meat
Friday - 08/19/2011 - 01:30 AMMEXICO CITY — The Mexican government says it has suspended butchering of cows at a slaughterhouse in central Mexico after finding many of the cattle there tested positive for clenbuterol.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Venezuelan president to be buried at home
Thursday - 08/18/2011 - 01:31 AMMIAMI — Relatives of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez have agreed that he will be buried in Venezuela, ending a bitter family feud, their attorneys said Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 1 dead, 8 missing in Venezuela helicopter crash
Thursday - 08/18/2011 - 01:32 AMCARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan officials say a military helicopter carrying 10 soldiers has crashed into the sea off the South American nation's Caribbean coast.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Austin Marine who went after fallen troops to get Medal of Honor
Monday - 08/15/2011 - 07:30 AMHe is receiving the Medal of Honor for braving enemy fire to find and retrieve the bodies of three missing Marines and a Navy corpsman in Afghanistan in 2009, Chase Goodman of Pikeville told the Lexington Herald-Leader last month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mexico violence dashes soccer field dreams
Monday - 08/15/2011 - 01:30 AMBuild the fields, promoters promised, and peace will come to Ciudad Juarez. But the dream didn't stand a chance.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cartel violence claims 11 in Acapulco over the weekend
Sunday - 08/14/2011 - 03:25 PMNearly a dozen people were slain in violent attacks over the weekend in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, police said Sunday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gunmen abduct US man in brazen raid in Pakistan
Sunday - 08/14/2011 - 01:30 AMLAHORE, Pakistan — Gunmen kidnapped an American development expert after tricking his guards and breaking into his house in Pakistan on Saturday, a brazen raid that alarmed aid workers, diplomats and other foreigners who already tread carefully in this country rife with Islamic militancy and anti-U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Suspect in Aruba disappearance had troubled past with women
Saturday - 08/13/2011 - 03:06 PMThe man Aruban authorities suspect in the death of his travel companion while visiting the Dutch Caribbean island courted other women with his blue-green eyes, tall physique and offers of cruises and vacations, and his $1.3 million stone mansion in this upper-class Washington suburb.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Suspect in Aruba disappearance had troubled past with women
Saturday - 08/13/2011 - 03:06 PMThe man Aruban authorities suspect in the death of his travel companion while visiting the Dutch Caribbean island courted other women with his blue-green eyes, tall physique and offers of cruises and vacations, and his $1.3 million stone mansion in this upper-class Washington suburb.
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- Armed men cross Egyptian border, kill 8 Israelis
Friday - 08/19/2011 - 01:30 AMEILAT, Israel — Gunmen who crossed from the Egyptian desert launched a series of attacks in southern Israel, killing eight people and threatening to destabilize a volatile border region that includes the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and Egypt's increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gorbachev: 20 years after coup, Russia still needs change
Thursday - 08/18/2011 - 09:11 AMFormer Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the government on Wednesday for taking Russia backward and said that the nation needs free elections and fresh leadership.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indian anti-graft crusader agrees to 15-day fast
Thursday - 08/18/2011 - 01:31 AMNEW DELHI — A renowned Indian anti-corruption crusader struck a deal with police early Thursday to hold a 15-day public hunger strike against graft, ending a bizarre standoff at a New Delhi prison where the activist's brief detention had turned into a sit-in protest.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Age of moon may be off by 200 million years
Wednesday - 08/17/2011 - 01:09 PMIt's all guesswork, of course. But the latest guess from scientists who analyzed Apollo 16 rocks is an age of 4.4 billion years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Clinton launches business loan program in Haiti
Tuesday - 08/16/2011 - 08:04 PMPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Argentine president dominates unusual primary vote
Monday - 08/15/2011 - 01:30 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama, foreign leaders urge end to Syrian violence
Monday - 08/15/2011 - 01:30 AMWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reached out to the leaders of Britain and Saudi Arabia on Saturday to build consensus for an end to the violent crackdown by Syria's government.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Britain's top cop slams UK role for US crime guru
Sunday - 08/14/2011 - 01:30 AMLONDON — Tensions between Britain's government and police leaders flared Saturday over Prime Minister David Cameron's recruitment of a veteran American police commander to advise him on how to combat gangs and prevent a repeat of the past week's riots.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cuba transgender wedding shows shifting attitudes
Sunday - 08/14/2011 - 01:30 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.K. riots raise questions about U.S. unrest
Saturday - 08/13/2011 - 03:31 PM
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