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Pro-government mob hits, shouts down husband of top Cuban dissident blogger
The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
China says 15 dead, 114 trapped in mine explosion in country's north
A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 15 people and trapping another 114 nearly a third of a mile under ground, central government authorities said.
Shifting tactics, Mexico readies social programs to combat drug gangs in violent border city
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
Argentina's Congress approves forced extraction of DNA from suspected dirty war orphans
Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago — even when they don't want to know their birth parents.
Mexican prosecutors investigate disappearance of journalist who reported on crime, corruption
Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime.
Canadian court orders refugee board to reconsider case of lesbian deserter from US army
A lesbian who deserted the U.S. military and fled to Canada must be given another chance to plead her case for refugee status, Canada's Federal Court ruled Friday.
Guatemala ends 2-year adoption suspension, establishes reforms to stop theft, sale of babies
Guatemalan officials on Friday announced the resumption of international adoptions after a nearly two-year suspension prompted by the discovery that some babies were being sold.
Mumbai Jewish center struggles to rebuild, city still vulnerable 1 year after terror attack
The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes. Dozens of holes, blasted by grenades, pockmark the linoleum floors.
Former Metropolitan soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom dies in native Sweden, aged 82
Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says.
Yemeni coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked Panamanian cargo ship in Gulf of Aden
Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.
Official: Obama won't take any current war options
President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by...
AP sources: U.S. troops likely for Afghanistan in January
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan,...
U.S. must back Karzai — flaws and all
The weekend withdrawal by President Hamid Karzai's opponent from the planned re-run of the...
Vatican reaches out to welcome disaffected Anglicans
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican announced a stunning decision Tuesday to make it easier for...
Fred Kagan: Obama shouldn't repeat Clinton's Somalia mistakes
President Bush left a confused situation. A mission undertaken with reasonable clarity had become...
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama
OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning...
McChrystal 'isolated' after speaking out on troop plan
The White House is taking pains to downplay conflict between the executive branch and the...
Thomas Donnelly: Taliban siege on outpost echoes one of year ago
The village of Kamdesh in Nuristan province is almost as deep as one can go into the Hindu Kush...
No Afghanistan pullout, White House says
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama won't walk away from the flagging war in...
Chicago eliminated from bidding process for 2016 Games
COPENHAGEN (AP) — Chicago was eliminated in the first ballot of voting for the 2016...
Quake strikes Indonesia, killing hundreds and trapping many under collapsed buildings
A powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia trapped thousands of people under collapsed buildings — including hospitals, a hotel and a classroom, officials said. At least 200 bodies were found in one coastal city and the toll was expected to be far higher.
Michael O’Hanlon: A good idea for dealing with African pirates
As the seas of the Indian Ocean, like those of the Atlantic, calm with the end of storm season,...
Peter W. Singer: From crop-dusting to counterinsurgency?
In the 1992 film "Iron Eagle III," a retired U.S. Air Force fighter ace is asked by a...
Obama off to a good start on security issues
Now that President Barack Obama has reached his half-year milestone, it is a good moment to give...
Obama, Hu to discuss free trade, North Korea
Chinese President Hu Jintao is likely to press U.S. President Barack Obama for assurances that...
Can Iraq Awakening be repeated in Afghanistan?
The Anbar Awakening was one of the keys to American success in Iraq. Many policymakers are now...
Japan's change election
What to make of the huge win by Japan's Democratic Party against the entrenched establishment...
Afghan army and police forces must grow much larger
More U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan in part because there are too few Afghan National...
Will Obama preserve America's global power?
Since the end of the Cold War, many conservatives have consoled themselves with the thought that,...
Who’s afraid of the big, bad Chinese aircraft carrier?
When I was 11, my uncle worked in the Pentagon. Knowing that I was interested in military issues,...
