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• China wages war on pervasive corruption
  10 Mar 2010 at 1:45pm
  Public corruption is not exclusive to China, but it is considered a more serious problem here because it could threaten Communist ...

  
  

  
  
• Disaster experts praise Chile quake response
  10 Mar 2010 at 12:42pm
  President Michelle Bachelet leaves office on Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins and her popularity in the clouds.

  
  

  
  
• Ex-wife criticizes Mandela to U.K. newspaper
  10 Mar 2010 at 10:43am
  A British newspaper interview that quotes Nelson Mandela's ex-wife bitterly criticizing the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon ...

  
  

  
  
• Families: Three Americans detained in Iran call home
  10 Mar 2010 at 10:21am
  Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in ...

  
  

  
  
• Portugal raises $1.34B in successful bond auction
  10 Mar 2010 at 8:48am
  Financially troubled Portugal raised 990 million euros ($1.34 billion) Wednesday in a key bond auction that had more bids than ...

  
  

  
  
• U.N. report: Much of Somalia's food aid diverted
  10 Mar 2010 at 7:51am
  Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in Somalia is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical ...

  
  

  
  
• Israel apologizes for embarrasing Biden
  10 Mar 2010 at 7:15am
  Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed ...

  
  

  
  
• Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early
  10 Mar 2010 at 7:08am
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge ...

  
  

  
  
• Iran leader: U.S. playing 'double game' in Afghanistan
  10 Mar 2010 at 5:05am
  Taking aim at the U.S., Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it's the United States that is playing a "double ...

  
  

  
  
• 6 killed in attack on aid group in Pakistan
  10 Mar 2010 at 1:39pm
  Gunmen attacked the offices of an international aid group in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six people working for ...

  
  

  
  
• Iraqi parties both claim lead in election
  9 Mar 2010 at 8:44pm
  The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after ...

  
  

  
  
• Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from election
  10 Mar 2010 at 1:04pm
  A new election law issued by Myanmar's ruling military has barred pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from joining a political ...

  
  

  
  
• Egypt to pay for restoration of all its Jewish synagogues
  9 Mar 2010 at 7:39pm
  Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country's Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister Tuesday, two days ...

  
  

  
  
• 2 U.S. soldiers die in accident in Iraq
  9 Mar 2010 at 5:48pm
  The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in a vehicle accident in Iraq.

  
  

  
  
• Britain may force owners to microchip, insure their dogs
  9 Mar 2010 at 4:32pm
  British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's ...