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‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly reportedly wins Haiti election

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A carnival singer who reinvented himself into a polished political outsider is poised to become Haiti's new president, according to several sources familiar with the results that are expected to be released later Monday...

Pakistan hit by car bomb hours after Clinton’s arrival

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A devastating bomb ripped through a...

Raul Castro says Cuba has one million excess jobs

MIAMI — The stunning figure was revealed by Cuban leader Raul Castro himself: The Cuban government and its enterprises might have more than one million excess workers on their payrolls...

Iraqis say they want U.S. investment, strategic support

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BASRA, Iraq — The tourist ship "Peace" was at...

Afghan President Karzai’s half brother assassinated

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the younger...

An extradited Noriega returns to Panama

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MEXICO CITY — Manuel Noriega, the onetime military...

Atherosclerosis found in CT scans of Egyptian mummies

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Researchers using a CT scanner have...

8.8 earthquake hits Chile; tsunami feared throughout eastern Pacific

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BOGOTA, Colombia — The death toll is expected to rise from a devastating earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday morning and President Michelle Bachelet declared parts of her country catastrophe zones...