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Haitian ex-soldiers occupy former army buildings
By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE - About 200 ex-soldiers occupied former military buildings in northern Haiti on Tuesday to ...

Body of ballooning Brazilian priest found at sea
RIO DE JANEIRO - The body of a Brazilian priest who floated out over the ocean suspended by hundreds of helium-filled party balloons, ha...

U.S. confronts Pakistan on links to militants: report
WASHINGTON - A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled to Islamabad and confronted senior officials with evidence of ties betw...

Marathon WTO talks collapse in U.S.-India farm row
By Jonathan Lynn and Doug Palmer GENEVA - Marathon talks on a new global trade pact collapsed on Tuesday as the United States and...

Karadzic arrives in the Netherlands to face trial
By Reed Stevenson THE HAGUE - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was taken to a prison cell in The Hague on Wednesday to...

Iran seeks "common ground" with West: Ahmadinejad
WASHINGTON - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Iran will seek "common ground " with the United States and five ...

France's first lady compares self to Jackie Kennedy
By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES - France 's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, said she sees herself as akin to former U.S. first l...

U.N. admits "significant" Myanmar exchange rate loss
By Louis Charbonneau and Megan Davies UNITED NATIONS - The top U.N. humanitarian affairs official said on Monday the world body h...

Militants kill three Pakistani intelligence men
By Junaid Ali MINGORA, Pakistan - Pro-Taliban militants attacked a security post and took up to 30 hostages on Tuesday in Pakista...

Malaysia's Anwar eyes parliamentary seats: party
By Jalil Hamid KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim produced a report by a private doctor on Tuesday that he ...