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Netanyahu's government tries to save settler house
Netanyahu's government tries to save settler house The Israeli government has stepped in to save a house built illegally by Jewish settlers in a volatile Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem, complicating already troubled U.S. efforts to renew Mideast peacemaking. more...
02/09/2010 10:44am
Over 60 feared dead, 400 hurt in Afghan avalanches
A series of avalanches engulfed a mountain pass in Afghanistan, trapping hundreds of people in their buried cars and killing as many as 64 people so far, authorities said Tuesday.
  02/09/2010 10:33am
Gates wants Iran sanctions in 'weeks, not months'
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to see the United Nations slap sanctions on Iran in "weeks, not months."

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters Tuesday that Gates "clearly thinks time is of the essence."
  02/09/2010 10:04am
Sri Lankan parliament dissolved ahead of new vote
Sri Lankan parliament dissolved ahead of new vote
Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power.
  02/09/2010 9:58am
It's a wrap! Hospitals test new, more modest gown
It's a wrap! Hospitals test new, more modest gown
The British government is getting behind a plan to replace drafty open-backed hospital gowns with versions that preserve patients' modesty.
  02/09/2010 9:51am
A meal fit for a King? No, but the plate is!
A British woman says she's shocked that a dusty dish on her shelf has been identified as a very valuable 260-year-old antique made for the King of Prussia.
  02/09/2010 9:48am
UN slams Haitian hospitals for charging patients
The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients.
  02/09/2010 9:44am
Ivory Coast opposition protests voter list probe
Protesters torched a police station in western Ivory Coast while claiming their names had been removed from voter rolls in advance of this year's presidential election.
  02/09/2010 9:37am
2nd German traveler camps out in Brazil airport
A German man who went to Brazil for a woman he met on the Internet has been camping out in an airport for more than a month after thieves took all his money and possessions, authorities said Tuesday.
  02/09/2010 9:20am
Nigeria: Vice president empowered by lawmakers
Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the...
  02/09/2010 9:18am
Vatican intrigue hits new level with leak denial
The Vatican denied Tuesday that it leaked documents that led to the resignation of a prominent Catholic editor, intervening in a tale of ecclesiastical intrigue that has dominated Italian headlines for weeks.
  02/09/2010 9:18am
Somali pirates release cargo ship with 26 crew
The European Union Naval Force says Somali pirates have freed a Panama-flagged cargo ship and its crew of 26 after a ransom was paid.
  02/09/2010 9:16am
Nigeria footage: uniformed men shoot unarmed men
An international news channel is showing chilling footage of men in uniforms shooting unarmed men after they purportedly were arrested during clashes last year with Muslim militants in northern Nigeria.
  02/09/2010 9:09am
China gives 5 years to activist who probed quake
A Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of children crushed in their schools during the Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Tuesday to five years, underscoring the government's determination to suppress questions about why the buildings...
  02/09/2010 8:55am
Russian military calls US missile defense a threat
U.S. missile defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia's top military officer said Tuesday.
  02/09/2010 8:50am
US Army closes in on targeted southern Afghan town
U.S. Army soldiers launched a preliminary operation Tuesday in support of a planned U.S.-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.
  02/09/2010 8:49am
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