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U.S. officials say agreement near to cancel Haiti's $477M debt to IADB
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration says it is near an agreement with other nations to cancel the $447 million that Haiti owes to the Inter-American Development Bank. Treasury Department official...
Trade minister says Australia can proceed with pact to sell uranium to Russia but not India
CANBERRA, Australia - Any Australian uranium sales to Russia would meet nonproliferation requirements, but the government remains firmly against sales to India, Trade Minister Simon Crean said Friday....
Clinton and Netanyahu speak on phone, plan face-to-face meeting next week
MOSCOW - Hoping to defuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet next week in Washington to confront a...
Palestinian rocket kills Thai worker in Israel, first such death since Gaza war
A rocket fired by Gaza militants smashed into a greenhouse in an Israeli border village Thursday, killing a Thai worker in the first such death since Israel's massive offensive against Hamas-ruled Gaz...
Marijuana foes say robberies, killings over medical marijuana show crime linked to drug
SAN FRANCISCO - Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thie...
Holocaust survivor stands by concentration camp memory of Anne Frank challenged by experts
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Holocaust survivor who says she met Anne Frank in a Nazi concentration camp is standing by her story in the face of skepticism from historians, filmmakers and a childhood fr...
Amistad sails to Havana; a symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba
WASHINGTON - It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a slave-carrying schooner slipping into Havana's harbour flying two flags - those of the United States and Cuba. ...
Body of second victim of Fiji cyclone found, as clean up gets under way
SUVA, Fiji - Fijians cleaning up after a devastating cyclone discovered the body of a second victim on Friday, as military forces from three nations worked to find out the extent of damage to outlying...
Congressman: US terror suspect called Jihad Jane co-operated in international probe
PHILADELPHIA - A woman accused of trolling the Internet as Jihad Jane and agreeing to marry a suspected terrorist and kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims co-operated with authorities, a ...
AP source: Netanyahu, Clinton talk by phone and plan face to face meeting next week
WASHINGTON - A U.S. official says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed a long-awaited phone call to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the two plan a face-to-face meet...
John Mayer got choked up and apologized at his Nashville concert Wednesday night (February 10th) following
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