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March 22, 2010
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has scored the biggest victory of his presidency as Congress approved his signature health care reform bill, bringing near-universal coverage to a wealthy country in which tens of millions of people are uninsured.
March 21, 2010
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - A volcano in southern Iceland has erupted for the first time in almost 200...
March 22, 2010
REGENSBURG, Germany - Six people in the Regensburg diocese in the pope's native Bavaria are under...
March 21, 2010
His antagonists demanded the prime minister meet with them personally.
March 22, 2010
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy is meeting first thing Monday with his prime minister to...
Clinton, Bush to visit Haiti together as frustrations rise over uneven quake relief response
March 21, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - One restored a Haitian president to power; the other flew him back out again. Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are visiting Haiti on Monday, reminding the country of its tumultuous recent past just as frustration over an uneven earthquake relief effort is bringing politics back to the surface.
Donors conference raises $850 million for Darfur to ensure safe return of displaced
March 21, 2010
CAIRO, Egypt - An international donors conference on Sunday raised $850 million for projects intended to ensure the safe return of nearly 3 million people displaced during the war in Darfur.
Supreme leader sharply criticises Obama overture, says U.S. leader plotting against Iran
March 21, 2010
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader sharply denounced the United States on Sunday, accusing it of plotting to overthrow its clerical leadership, in a chilly response to an overture by President Barack Obama for better cultural ties with Iran.
Thousands of Kurds celebrate spring festival in Turkey as police increase security
March 21, 2010
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish police have increased security as tens of thousands of Kurds celebrate a traditional spring holiday that has been marked by violence in the past.
Israel's Netanyahu, before going to US, says no restrictions on building in east Jerusalem
March 21, 2010
JERUSALEM - Israel will not restrict construction in east Jerusalem, Israel's prime minister said Sunday hours before he left for Washington, despite a clear U.S. demand that building there must stop and a crisis in relations between the two longtime allies.
Suspected US missiles fired from unmanned drones kill 4 in northwestern Pakistan
March 21, 2010
MIR ALI, Pakistan - Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at a house and car in a militant-dominated tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four people.
Militant group brings draft of peace plan to Afghan capital; 13 civilians killed across nation
March 21, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan - Thirteen Afghan civilians died in violence as the nation's hard-line vice-president expressed hope for reconciliation and representatives of a militant group with ties to the Taliban brought a peace deal to the capital.
UN reduces Kandahar staff over security concerns as NATO troops begin to roll
March 21, 2010
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Kandahar is a city on the knife's edge.
Suspect arrested in Cypriot Archbishops' tomb vandalism; follows body snatching of ex-leader
March 21, 2010
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Cyprus police on Sunday arrested a Romanian man suspected of vandalizing the tombs of three Cyprus archbishops who led the island's Greek Orthodox church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a police spokesman said.
Conservationists at UN wildlife meeting say Internet fueling trade in endangered species
March 21, 2010
DOHA, Qatar - The Internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats to rare species, fueling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists said Sunday.
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