Iran’s increasing economic and political isolation is helping leaders to hold back what they see as corrupting foreign influences.
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President Bush is focusing on new American alliances with the tribes and local groups that Washington once feared would tear the country apart.
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As Congress reopened for business on Tuesday, the Democratic leadership promised to force a change in President Bush’s war strategy.
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Powerful coordinated explosions were set off by two suicide bombers in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital.
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The section of Israel’s separation barrier in dispute had cut a West Bank village off from much of its farmland.
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Security is the paramount criterion for the barrier, not a Jewish settlement's future housing needs, the high court says.
In a closely watched ruling, Israel's Supreme Court ordered the government Tuesday to reroute a milelong segment of its West Bank separation barrier, in effect restoring hundreds of acres of agricultural land that had been taken from a Palestinian village to give to Jewish settlers.
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A ghoulish crime wave in the Venezuelan capital supplies a black magic cult whose popularity is fueled by faith and politics.
Skulking in the dead of night in the remote and overgrown Las Pavas section of the Southern Municipal Cemetery, robbers armed with crowbars and sledgehammers first shattered the tomb's concrete vault and the granite marker that read, "To our dear wife and mother in heaven, Maria de la Cruz Aguero."
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Six other suspected Islamic militants are released but could be rearrested. Police say the group had direct ties to Al Qaeda.
Danish police arrested eight suspected Islamic militants here Tuesday, charging two of them with planning a terrorist attack and attempted murder in what was described as a serious plot with direct ties to Al Qaeda.
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Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani's ascension follows recent political actions that may be designed to ease criticism.
Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani rose to a key religious post Tuesday in a move that moderates considered a victory at a time Tehran is facing both international pressure over its nuclear ambitions and U.S. threats to brand its legendary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.
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Hours after powerful Felix strikes Nicaragua, Henriette arrives in southern Baja. The former storm weakens, but threatens severe flooding in Honduras' capital.
Hurricane Felix came ashore on Nicaragua's remote Miskito Coast early Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, damaging about 5,000 homes in the region before moving westward toward the heart of this country of 7 million people, officials said.
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Largely because of the mobile phone boom, telephone service has quadrupled in the past decade to 4 billion connections worldwide, according to the U.N.
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An international study raises new concerns about the devices.
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The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday that the next three to four months will be crucial in determining whether the United States can start to withdraw troops from Iraq without sacrificing security gains since the troop buildup began early this year.
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A roadside bomb exploded on the fringes of the capital's Shiite slum of Sadr City early Wednesday, killing 11 and injuring 19.
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Many Afghans who have returned to their homeland are facing difficulties, including lack of employment, health care, education and housing, the UN refugee agency said.
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Condemning the twin blasts in Pakistan that killed 25 people and injured 65 others, the US on Wednesday said there was no justification for such attacks.
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Australia will stand by the United States in Iraq and not reduce its troop levels, Prime Minister John Howard pledged on Wednesday.
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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of all 12 miners missing after a blast at a coal mine in central China, with no word on the fate of 181 miners trapped underground.
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Three suspected Islamic terrorists have been arrested in Germany for
allegedly plotting attacks on Frankfurt airport and the nearby US military
base in Ramstein, authorities said today.
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One in three bottles of appellation controlée wines produced in France is sub-standard, according to the French consumer watch-dog. A survey of wine professionals by the organisation, UFC-Que Choisir, concluded that the supposed local authenticity offered by the label "AOC" ? appellation d'origine controlée ? has become meaningless.
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Four senior managers from the air-traffic control company Skyguide have been convicted of causing Germany's worst air accident in which 71 people were killed when two planes collided in mid-air in July 2002.
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British authorities ruled Wednesday that research using animal eggs to create human stem cells could go forward in principle.
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Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an Al Qaeda-influenced group nursing a "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Two NATO soldiers were killed while on patrol in restive southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while more than 20 suspected insurgents were reported to have died in coalition airstrikes and ground battles, authorities said.
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A court Wednesday convicted an author of directing the killing of a businessman in a crime that bore eerie similarities to a murder he described in a novel three years later.
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German police have arrested three men who were allegedly planning large-scale bomb attacks on U.S. targets in Germany, authorities said Wednesday.
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At least nine people are dead after Hurricane Felix landed in Central America, tearing into Nicaragua before weakening into a tropical storm that is expected to continue dumping rain on the region Wednesday.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he was "shocked and humbled" by a visit to a Darfur refugee camp, where he pledged to step up efforts to bring peace to the war-torn region.
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The DNA of every British citizen and visitor to the country should be included in the national database , a senior judge said Wednesday.
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Opera star Luciano Pavarotti, who has been fighting pancreatic cancer, is in serious condition and his health is deteriorating, Italian news agencies reported Wednesday.
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The three Islamic militants arrested today were in the advanced stages of plotting large-scale attacks against several sites frequented by Americans, officials said.
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Lawyers for two Marines involved in an episode that left about a dozen Afghan civilians dead are disputing the official military and Afghan descriptions of their actions.
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They should have launched a war crimes investigation into the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians, a top general rules.
Three senior officers have been given letters of censure for not launching a war crimes investigation into the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps said today.
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American soldiers near U.S. bases were the likely targets, police report. Three suspects belonging to Al Qaeda-linked group are arrested while mixing bomb-making chemicals, authorities say.
Police have prevented the most ambitious Al Qaeda-linked attack in Europe to date, authorities said today, accusing three suspects allegedly trained in Pakistan of plotting multiple car-bomb attacks onU.S. military personnel near the Frankfurt airport and American bases.
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Hurricane Felix dumped heavy rain in Central America, causing flooding, landslides and at least nine deaths.
Hurricane Henriette threatened Mexico's mainland today as it stayed on track for the southwestern United States, while the weakening remains of Hurricane Felix dumped heavy rain in Central America, causing flooding, landslides and at least nine deaths.
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