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Religious hatred, politics and poverty weave tapestry of violence across central Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria - Christians and Muslims once shared their lives together in Nigeria's fertile central belt, buying each other's goods in mixed neighbourhoods and cultivating each other's farms across a ...
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Suu Kyi denounces election laws that keep her out of race
YANGON, Myanmar - Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said she is surprised but undaunted at the military government's new election laws that will bar her from running for office or ev...
Bomb planted outside store kills 4, wounds 21 in NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A homemade bomb placed outside a store in northwestern Pakistan where locals watch movies exploded Thursday, killing four people, including a child, said officials. The attack,...
Strongest aftershock, magnitude 7.2, rocks Chile as president sworn in before foreign leaders
SANTIAGO, Chile - The largest aftershock since Chile's devastating earthquake rocked the South American country Thursday minutes before the inauguration of President Sebastian Pinera. The 7.2-magni...
Preliminary results show Iraqi prime minister winning in 2 Shiite provinces in southern Iraq
BAGHDAD - Early results from Iraq's key election began coming in Thursday, showing a coalition led by the prime minister ahead in two southern Shiite provinces where he was opposed by hard-line religi...
Strongly felt quakes shake Chile inauguration
SANTIAGO, Chile - Two strongly felt earthquakes have rocked central Chile as dignitaries arrive for the inauguration of President-elect Sebastian Pinera. The U.S. Geological Survey says the first q...
Protesters clash with police in Athens demonstration during Greek general strike
ATHENS - Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government'...
Al-Qaida eyeing less-complex US attacks after seeing impact of Fort Hood, Dec. 25 militants
WASHINGTON - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a US-bound airliner tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set fe...
Bachelet says she leaves Chile in good shape for Pinera, despite disaster recovery challenges
SANTIAGO, Chile - Outgoing President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday that she's leaving Chile in good shape for President-elect Sebastian Pinera, having already resolved a number of the most urgent is...
Preliminary results show Iraqi PM winning in 2 Shiite provinces in southern Iraq
BAGHDAD - Preliminary election results released by Iraq's electoral commission show Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is winning in two Shiite provinces in southern Iraq. The results were the first vo...
