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RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) -- For other countries, a second-round World Cup match is a big step. For the United States, Saturday's game against Ghana is so much more. The...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan national peace conference today urged the government to take formal steps toward negotiating with insurgents, boosting President Hamid Karzai's plans to open talks with...

ISTANBUL (AP) -- An aid ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza could reach Israel's 20-mile (32-kilometer) exclusion zone late today, an activist said, but Israel's prime minister has...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's attorney general says all of the nearly 700 activists detained in a deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip will be deported...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Al-Qaida has announced that its No. 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family -- perhaps one of the most severe blows...

LONDON -- British airport operator BAA Ltd. says all flights at London's Heathrow Airport have been suspended for the rest of the day, causing travel chaos as ash clouds from...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Poland's government moved swiftly Sunday to show that it was staying on course after the deaths of its president and dozens of political, military and religious...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died today when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- U.S. naval forces say they've captured five pirates after exchanging fire with them, sinking their skiff and confiscating a mother ship. The USS Nicholas came under...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- Two suicide bombers -- including one impersonating a police officer -- killed 12 people today in southern Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the blasts may...

President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed on Friday to a sharp cuts in the nuclear arsenals of both nations in the most comprehensive arms control treaty in...