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Mandela in serious but stable condition
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela was in serious but stable condition in a Pretoria hospital for the third day Monday with a recurring lung infection, and a foundation led by retired archbishop Desmond...
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Taliban attack airport
KABUL, Afghanistan — Seven Taliban fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns launched a rare assault on NATO’s operational headquarters at the military section of Kabul’s internation...
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South Africa: Family visits with Mandela
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela received visits from family members on Sunday at a hospital where the former president and anti-apartheid leader was being treated for a recurring lung infection, whil...
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Reformists struggle with options
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Despite four years of non-stop pressure, arrests and intimidation, Iran’s dissidents still find ways to show their resilience. Protest messages still ricochet aroun...
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Rival Koreas to hold senior-level meeting in Seoul
SEOUL, South Korea — The rival Koreas agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts after Pyongyang’s recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul’s vows of counte...
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Insurgents attack military side of Afghan airport
KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents on Monday attacked the military side of Kabul’s international airport, which houses a NATO headquarters, and explosions and gunfire were occurring, Afghan army and p...
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Associated Press Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif speaks Saturday during a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Pakistan summons US envoy to protest fatal drone strike
ISLAMABAD — Just days after taking power, Pakistan’s new government summoned a top U.S. envoy Saturday to lodge a protest over a U.S. drone strike, suggesting that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s tea...
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Associated Press Vice-minister of South Korea's Unification Ministry Kim Nam-sik (right) and the head of South Korea's working-level delegation Chun Hae-sung walk to a conference hall at the Office of the South Korea-North Korea Dialogue in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday before the delegation leaves to Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. North and South Korea will meet in the village straddling their heavily armed border Sunday for the first government-level talks on the peninsula in more than two years as they try to lower tension and restore stalled projects that once symbolized their rapprochement.
2 Koreas talk in border village after tensions
SEOUL, South Korea — Government delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at a “truce village” on their heavily armed border aimed at setting ground-rules for a higher-lev...
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Car bomb kills 7 people in central Syrian city
BEIRUT — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday in Syria’s central city of Homs, tearing through an area largely populated by the regime’s Alawite sect and killing seven peopl...
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Gunfight in Libya leaves 7 dead
TRIPOLI, Libya — A gunfight between protesters and former rebels aligned with the military in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi left seven people dead on Saturday, a health official said, the latest...
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