Haitians begin to return to unprepared capital
By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A half-million Haitians who fled their shattered capital after the earthquake are starting to return to a maze of rubble piles, refugee camps and food lines, complicating ambitious ...
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Twin blasts kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
By CHELSEA J. CARTER
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A car bomb ripped through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside the holy city of Karbala Friday, sending many fleeing into the path of a suicide attacker who detonated a second bomb in coordi ...
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15 dead, homes flooded in central Mexico
By GUSTAVO RUIZ
Associated Press Writer
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) -- Fifteen people -- including five children -- died this week in severe and unseasonable winter storms that closed schools and freeways in central Mexico and flooded thousands of homes, auth ...
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Historians hope to publish "Mein Kampf" in Germany
By JUERGEN BAETZ
Associated Press Writer
BERLIN (AP) -- Publish Hitler's infamous memoir "Mein Kampf" in Germany? It sounds like the ultimate taboo.
But a group of German historians is lobbying to do just that, arguing that it's necessary t ...
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NKorea says it will free detained US missionary
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A "repentant" American missionary set to be freed from North Korea after being arrested at the border on Christmas said he was ashamed of the "biased" view he once held of the communist nation, Py ...
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US says ambushed Afghan outpost left vulnerable
By KIM GAMEL
Associated Press Writer
KABUL (AP) -- Most of the soldiers were still asleep when gunfire rang out and insurgents stormed their isolated base from all sides. Eight Americans and three Afghan soldiers died.
The Americans weren't ev ...
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