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BRUSSELS — The top commander in the largely stalemated Afghanistan war acknowledged today a crucial campaign to secure the region of the country where the Taliban insurg...

WARSAW, Poland — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich — a recent convert to Catholicism — is in Poland promoting a documentary he co-produced on Pope John Paul II's r...

NADAHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan — A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party for a family with ties to police in the Taliban's heartland in Afghanistan, killing at least...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two more American troops were killed in Afghanistan today, the military said, extending a spike of bloodshed into a second day and pushing the NATO ...

LONDON— Jack Harrison, who survived the Great Escape plot by Allied prisoners in a German prison in World War II, has died at age 97, his family said. Harrison died Frid...

LIMA, Peru — Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his L...

Tensions escalate in Gaza blockade JERUSALEM — Israeli naval forces shot and killed four men wearing wet suits in the waters off the coast of Gaza today, and a militant g...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law was promoted and a premier who apologized for a currency debacle was replaced today in a rare parli...

ATHENS, Greece — When it comes to overspending, Greece gets the gold medal. Governments in the Greek capital of Athens haven't balanced a budget in nearly 40 years, and ...

Taxi driver kills 10 in London LONDON — A taxi driver killed 10 victims in a single hour during a shooting rampage in rural England in which he murdered 12 people and wou...