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Rights leader: Islamist fighters seize Somali town

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Islamic insurgents in Somalia seized a major agricultural center overnight, sending hundreds of peopl...

10 militants, 4 Afghans killed in violence

KABUL, Afghanistan - A series of clashes, airstrikes and bomb blasts left 10 militants and four civilians killed in Afghan...

Bush pivots to Arab side of Mideast peace dispute

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - President Bush pivoted to the Arab side of the Mideast peace dispute on Saturday, but he may well ...

Thousands flee China quake area over flood fears

BEICHUAN, China - Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims fled areas near the epicenter Saturday, fearful of potential flo...

US oil shipments canceled.

WASHINGTON - Responding to congressional pressure, the Bush administration on Friday said it is suspending oil deliveries ...

Texas sinkhole becomes a lake, home to alligator

Area residents believe the reptile was washed into the 600-foot-diameter crater by water from surrounding swamps.

Artist covers old gas station with huge blanket

DEWITT, N.Y. - Jennifer Marsh was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eye...

Texas sinkhole becomes a lake, home to alligator

Area residents believe the reptile was washed into the 600-foot-diameter crater by water from surrounding swamps.

Artist covers old gas station with huge blanket

DEWITT, N.Y. - Jennifer Marsh was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eye...

Kuwaitis elect new parliament

KUWAIT CITY - Voters in Kuwait lined up Saturday to vote in landmark parliamentary elections that could substantially chan...

Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan freed

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was freed unharmed three months after he vanished in a tribal a...

Brazil's illegal logging hard to combat

TAILANDIA, Brazil - Acrid smoke from charcoal-making blankets this Amazon logging town with the smell of business as usual...

French navy ship near Myanmar with aid

Myanmar's junta, meanwhile, took a group of foreign diplomats for a tour of the Irrawaddy, after announcing that the death...

New leaders unlikely to ease US-Russian tensions

WASHINGTON - Russia's new president has promised the kind of democratic change that Washington advocated during predecesso...

Bush pivots to Arab side of Mideast peace dispute

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - President Bush is pivoting to the Arab side of the Mideast peace dispute, and he may well get a le...