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ISLAMABAD AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai told Pakistan on Thursday his country did not want to become a battle ground for... Read More →

WASHINGTON PRESIDENT Barack Obama plans “dramatic reductions” in the country’s nuclear arsenal, a senior US official said this week, but... Read More →

WASHINGTON PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s administration moved to rein in America’s largest banks this week, sending Congress new rules blocking mega-mergers... Read More →

BAQUBA THREE suicide attacks, including one by a bomber who rode in an ambulance to hospital before blowing himself up,... Read More →

GENEVA CAMPAIGNERS at the three-day World Conference Against the Death Penalty, which continued on Thursday, see light at the end... Read More →

WASHINGTON THE TOPIC was the safety woes of Toyota, but the hearing at the US Congress could also have been... Read More →

SYDNEY AUSTRALIA summoned the Israeli ambassador on Thursday and delivered a stark warning on ties after three Australian passports were... Read More →

LONG BEACH Nobel laureates, technology titans, artists, scientists, and academics spent five days here grappling with how best to reboot... Read More →

WASHINGTON Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama opened a visit on Wednesday (Thursday, Bali time) to the United States... Read More →

PORT-AU-PRINCE The scale of devastation in Haiti is far worse than in Asia after the 2004 tsunami, a study has... Read More →