The Obama administration is nearing a deal with a bipartisan group of senators to close the Guantanamo prison and pave the way for more detainees to be tried before military commissions, a move that would reverse a key White House security policy.
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Facing dwindling medical help from abroad, Haiti officials are planning a postquake health-care system, for which they are seeking outside funds.
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Israel bombed targets in Gaza shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called Secretary of State Clinton to discuss measures aimed at restarting peace talks and damping a diplomatic conflict with Washington.
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Papandreou said Greece isn't seeking financial aid from either the EU or the IMF even as the country struggles to fix its finances. Germany, meanwhile, signaled it might support a joint EU-IMF bailout.
A group of 200 U.S. law enforcement agents questioned members of a dangerous gang that may have been involved in the killings of three people linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
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Despite its rich petroleum reserves, Venezuela depends on one hydroelectric plant for two-thirds of its power supply. If the water level drops too low, swaths of the country could be left without electricity.
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Malaysia's dilemma over whether to end some of the world's most entrenched systems of racial-preference laws is coming to a head.
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Managers of bankrupt oil giant Yukos have won injunctions in U.S. and British courts seeking the seizure of property from Russian oil major Rosneft--a sign that Yukos's legal battle against the Russian state is far from over.
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Pakistan has named Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, a former World Bank executive, to head the country's finance ministry, ending weeks of uncertainty caused by the sudden exit of the previous incumbent.
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Colleen LaRose pleaded not guilty to federal charges that she conspired to wage jihad abroad, including a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist whose work enraged Muslims.
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A U.S.-backed proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi was rejected by a United Nations wildlife meeting.
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A Chicago man charged with helping to plot a terrorist attack in Mumbai that killed more than 160 people will not face the death penalty in exchange for providing information to prosecutors.
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South African President Jacob Zuma said he believes he made great progress in his first trip to Zimbabwe as chief mediator between members of the fragile power-sharing government.
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Sudan's government and a collection of Darfur rebel groups signed a cease-fire--the second such deal in less than a month with a key rebel faction--opening the way for political negotiations ahead of a full peace agreement.
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A Polish court convicted three men of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December.
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The World Expo that begins May 1 promises to be nothing less than a coming-out party for Shanghai, China's commercial and financial capital.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned China Thursday that "the world will be watching" how it conducts the trial of four Rio Tinto executives, in a case that has already sent chills through foreign businesses
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A senior Chinese trade official warned that any further appreciation of the Chinese currency risked driving exporters out of business.
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The race between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and challenger Ayad Allawi in Iraq's too-close-to-call parliamentary elections largely comes down to the uncounted votes of expatriates and security forces, and some furious bargaining.
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Putin said Iran's Russian built nuclear-power plant will start operating this summer, prompting a rebuke by Clinton on her Moscow visit.
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The U.S. Treasury put two Gaza institutions, Islamic National Bank and Al-Aqsa Television, on its terrorist-financing list as part of its effort to contain Hamas financially.
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Dancing Dubliners and New Yorkers attending the city's annual parade in kilts and green body paint led the world in celebrating St. Patrick on Wednesday.