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SEOUL, South Korea – A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said. Full Story »
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KABUL - Television footage broadcast Tuesday showed insurgents handling what appears to be U.S. ammunition in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan that American forces left last month following a deadly firefight that killed eight troops. Full Story »
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TOKYO - The deepening debate over the future of a major U.S. Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa has opened a broad rift in Washington's most important alliance in Asia ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the region this week. Full Story »
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'Tear Down This Wall': Reagan's Speech That Ended the Cold War Full Story »
MOSCOW - A new Russian research module is on its way to the International Space Station. Full Story »
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JERUSALEM - The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has significantly expanded its ability to strike deep into Israel with rockets that can now reach the Jewish state's largest cities, and now possesses tens of thousands of projectiles, Israel's army chief said Tuesday. Full Story »
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands - A British Virgin Islands judge has ruled that a Rhode Island man must serve at least 25 years for killing his wife while scuba diving in the Caribbean in 1999. Full Story »
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DAKAR (AFP) - The cereal crop will decline sharply in Chad, Niger and Mauritania in 2009-2010 because of drought, the permanent Inter-state Committee to Fight Drought in the Sahel (CILSS) announced on Tuesday. Full Story »
KABUL (Reuters) - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt met Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tuesday, aiming to mend ties between Kabul and the European Union strained by a fraud-tainted election and what Bildt called a "problematic phase." Full Story »
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's ruling Conservatives strengthened their grip on power on Monday when they unexpectedly won two extra seats in Parliament in special elections, making it even less likely they will be brought down any time soon. Full Story »
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said Tuesday it was interested in collaborating with Chinalco, months after rejecting a massive cash injection from the state-owned Chinese firm. Full Story »
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CARACAS, Venezuela — A U.S.-brokered accord that was supposed to return ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to power has collapsed and his supporters pinned much of the blame Monday on the Obama administration. Full Story »
Paris - In France it is a tale of one and now two sons – of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Last month Mr. Sarkozy rolled eyeballs around the Republic when his son Jean, 23 and not finished with college, was tapped as a candidate to run Paris' wealthiest district, La Defense. A slightly shocked public reaction brought a withdrawal from Sarkozy the younger. Full Story »
Essay: China's Africa Gambit Full Story »
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WOOTTON BASSETT, England - Hundreds gathered in this small English market town Tuesday to pay tribute to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan — five of whom were shot to death by an Afghan police officer trained by allied forces. Full Story »
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ROME - Lawmakers allied with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will introduce a bill within days that could cut short his pending trials on tax fraud and corruption charges, one of the premier's most powerful backers in parliament said Tuesday. Full Story »
Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an "assessment" of him before deciding he did not pose a threat. Full Story »
A state government official says a former student has surrendered to police after taking a school administrator hostage at an upstate New York high school. Full Story »
Republican Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter is Chair of the Republican House Policy Committee and serves the 11th congressional district of Southeast Michigan. He is currently serving his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Full Story »
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