In an unexpected dissent at a critical moment, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan has warned in classified... |
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South Korea goes into its annual cone of silence
Test proctor Chae Su-beom knows the drill. Twice on this all-important day, for a seemingly interminable half-hour at a time, he is required...
New dinosaur species may be a missing link
Before the dig started, it looked like any other patch of dinosaur dirt: gray soil, a few brownish fossilized bones exposed by erosion....
Brazil's frayed wires finally short out
Reporting from Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil -- The power outage in Brazil that left as many as 60 million people in darkness...
In Mexico, tying the city in knots is a capital idea
Take world-class traffic congestion. Add protesters, tens of thousands of them, until streets become a thick, impenetrable mass. Let angry...
From Nazi pawn to U.S. champion
For more than seven decades, Gretel Bergmann has been haunted by a recurring dream.
Britain's Gordon Brown lambasted over sloppy condolence note
It was a simple letter from the most powerful man in Britain. In an age of big political staffs, computers and spell-check, it was written...
Indonesia teen who amputated his leg recalls earthquake ordeal
The teenager lay dazed amid the settling dust and debris, his leg trapped by a fallen concrete wall. He sensed that he was going to die....
9 Colombia troops killed in clash with rebels
Nine Colombian army soldiers were killed in a bloody confrontation with leftist guerrillas early Tuesday along a well-known transit corridor...
Car bomb in Pakistan marketplace kills 34
A car bomb blast tore through a crowded market Tuesday in a city near Peshawar and killed 34 people, the third terrorist attack to strike...
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Fixing foreign aidPoverty, famine and disease overseas lead to lawlessness, instability, revolution and terrorism that threaten American interests, and... |
Vietnam, Afghanistan and learning from historyAs President Kennedy pondered the risks of accidental war in the nuclear age -- a nightmare he would confront head on in the Cuban missile... |
Our enemy is not Islam -- it's extremistsBoth left- and right-wing accounts of the mass murder at Ft. Hood are haunted by the specter of "political correctness." |
China, the U.S. and TaiwanPresident Obama will have a lot on his agenda when he visits China this week as part of his four-nation Asia trip. He wants to strengthen... |
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