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AP - Europe’s government debt crisis intensified Thursday as worries grew that the continent’s most financially troubled countries, mainly Ireland and Portugal, will need a bailout to avoid bankruptcy just…

AP - Iceland’s former Prime Minister Geir Haarde has been referred to a special court in a move that could make him the first world leader to be charged in…

AP - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Tuesday that capitalism faces inevitable defeat and called for the overhaul of “undemocratic and unjust” global decision-making bodies.

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AP - Carola Narvaez breathed in the Atacama Desert’s cold dawn air and slowly began to exhale the story of how her family survived a devastating earthquake and worked to…

Reuters - Britain faces a new wave of attacks from poorly trained but highly motivated homegrown militants, as the al Qaeda threat shifts from big, sophisticated bomb plots to acts…

AP - In less than a week the 33 miners trapped under Chile’s Atacama Desert will have been stuck underground longer than any others in memory â?? taxing authorities Thursday…

AP - Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister by seizing control of her party from her former boss less than two months ago and called elections weeks later…

AP - Street star. Scandal-plagued aid director. Ex-Fugees hip hop frontman. The moment he filed his candidacy, Wyclef Jean became the most famous — and thus potentially most powerful —…

AP - A war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer Monday for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people, in the first verdict involving a…

AP - The U.S. military has handed over Tariq Aziz and dozens of other members of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle to Iraqi authorities who will assume control Thursday of the…