Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said former President Jimmy Carter’s recent talks with the Palestinian group Hamas had not been helpful.
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With time, harsh weather and automation, France’s lighthouses are disintegrating. And efforts to save them are an uphill battle.
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A staple moves out of reach for the poor amid expectations of shortages, increasing potential for unrest.
It is in the heaving slums of Asia, amid sagging tin shacks and streets afloat with waste, that the soaring global price for rice hits hardest.
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Officials will tell Congress members this week that North Korea was helping Syria build a reactor last year when it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, a U.S. official says.
CIA officials will tell Congress on Thursday that North Korea had been helping Syria build a plutonium-based nuclear reactor, a U.S. official said, a disclosure that could touch off new resistance to the administration's plan to ease sanctions on Pyongyang.
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Former Sen. Mario Uribe, a cousin of the president, faces charges over alleged dealings with outlawed paramilitary groups.
Authorities on Tuesday ordered the arrest of President Alvaro Uribe's cousin and confidant Mario Uribe, charging him with criminal conspiracy in alleged dealings with outlawed paramilitary groups.
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The deadly attacks by Sunni militants come as Iraqi and U.S. troops are battling cleric Muqtada Sadr's militia.
Sunni militants on Tuesday launched deadly attacks around Iraq, where a suicide truck bomb killed two U.S. Marines and 10 Iraqis in Anbar province, a female bomber struck a police station in eastern Iraq and a car bomb exploded in this capital city near a well-known restaurant.
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Bush, Felipe Calderon and Stephen Harper back the pact, sending a message as Pennsylvania holds its Democratic primary.
President Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada delivered a forceful message Tuesday to the next president of the United States: Don't mess with NAFTA.
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France and high-profile French retailer Carrefour have been singled out by Chinese nationalists who saw the protests against the torch relay as an insult to their national pride.
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In Kandahar province, a suicide bomber blew himself up next to a vehicle carrying intelligence agents in the border town of Spin Boldak, killing three civilians, Kandahar Gov. Assadullah Khalid said.
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Malaysia has scrapped plans for a multi-billion-dollar high-speed train connecting Kuala Lumpur and Singapore because of high costs, a government official said today.
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The Olympic flame arrived in Australia today for the next leg of the torch relay and was immediately whisked away to a secret location to avoid anti-China protesters.
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Whatever caused a Soyuz capsule to fall to earth like a rock on Saturday, scaring its crew of three and space enthusiasts around the world, has got NASA and its Russian engineers stumped.
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Democratic candidate Barack Obama congratulated rival Hillary Clinton for a 'terrific race' in Pennsylvania primary. Hillary has revived her White House hopes with the win.
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With 'trade' and 'takeovers' becoming vital to UK-India relations, a key House of Commons committee wants Britain to forge a 'special relationship' with India.
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Chelsea Clinton was a real hit as she wandered the streets of Philadelphia on a gay bar crawl, winning rave reviews for both her politics and her appearance.
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There are 1.2 million Colis in the world today, children trafficked to work for the benefit of others. Those who lure them into servitude make $15 billion annually, according to the ILO.
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Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by the Afghan president, unleashing automatic weapons and rocket fire that sent foreign dignitaries and senior members of the government fleeing for cover.
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Iraq's prime minister met Sunday with the Sunni Arab vice president to discuss reintegrating Sunni political parties into the Shiite-dominated government as militants fired a salvo of rockets or motars at the heavily guarded Green Zone.
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Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant.
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Orthodox Easter ceremonies took on deeply political undertones as President Vladimir Putin and his chosen successor celebrated the dominant Russian church's most important holiday together Sunday.
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Woman has told police that she was held prisoner in a cellar for almost 24 years by her father, who repeatedly raped her and fathered her seven children.
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Afghan President Hamed Karzai survived an assassination attempt at a military ceremony in Kabul on Sunday, but one person was killed and nine others were wounded in the attack.
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The fiancée of a man shot and killed on his wedding day by three New York City police officers said Saturday the justice system has failed her.
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A North Korean defector tried to set himself on fire in protest as the Olympic torch relay made its way through the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Sunday.
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Gun battles between drug traffickers erupted in the streets of Tijuana on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, Mexican police said.
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People living in northern Nevada's largest city are being warned to prepare for another earthquake as the area continued rumbling Saturday following the largest quake in a two-month-long series of temblors.
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The attack by suspected Taliban insurgents on a military parade in the capital, which killed three, was embarrassing for the Afghan government.
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A demonstration against violence was held by members of the Iraqi Parliament even as clashes went on nearby.
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The Justice Department has told Congress that U.S. operatives trying to thwart terrorist attacks may use interrogation methods that might otherwise be barred under international law.
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Two rigorous South Korean prep schools have achieved a spectacular record of admission to U.S. colleges.
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A Times reporter, jailed for “committing journalism” while reporting on the elections in Zimbabwe, writes about his ordeal.
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The Green Zone is the object of a barrage during a heavy sandstorm. Projectiles explode in nearby neighborhoods.
BAGHDAD -- A barrage of rocket or mortar fire was aimed at the fortified Green Zone today as the capital was enveloped in a thick sandstorm.
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KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban claimed responsibility today for an assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a brazen attack that left him unharmed but wounded two lawmakers.
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Chinese students clashed with anti-Beijing demonstrators at the Olympic torch relay today in Seoul, throwing rocks and punches at the latest stop on the flame's troubled round-the-world journey.
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