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Chile to return ambassador to Honduras, recognize new government a year after coup
SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile is formally recognizing the government of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo a year after a coup ousted his predecessor. Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said late Frid...
Broken landing gear caused crash of Lufthansa cargo plane upon landing in Saudi capital
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi authorities say landing gear on a Lufthansa cargo plane broke upon hitting the tarmac in Riyadh, causing the plane to split in half and catch on fire in an accident earlie...
Pakistan intelligence chief cancels visit to Britain after PM Cameron's terrorism remarks
LONDON - A diplomatic spat with implications for international counterterrorism escalated Saturday after Pakistan's spy chief cancelled a visit to London following comments by the British leader sugge...
Dutch 14-year-old to set out next week for round-the-world solo sailing attempt
AMSTERDAM - Teen sailor Laura Dekker says she will leave the Netherlands on Wednesday in her quest to become the youngest to circumnavigate the globe alone. But it won't yet be the first leg of the 14...
Roadside bomb kills 3 Iraqi soldiers, bystander south of Baghdad
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers responding to an earlier blast Saturday in an area south of Baghdad, officials said. One bystander was also killed. The first explosion near mu...
Admiral: US-led military drills focus on combatting terrorism, not sending message to N. Korea
HONOLULU, Hawaii - The commander of military drills in the Pacific says the focus of the exercises was training to combat terrorism, not sending a message to North Korea. Vice Adm. Richard W. Hunt ...
Death toll in Pakistani floods surges past 800 as rescuers struggle to reach the marooned
NOWSHERA, Pakistan - Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims and some evacuees showed signs ...
Fire crews beat back wildfire in high desert north of Los Angeles; homes no longer threatened
PALMDALE, Calif. - Fire crews working through the night beat back flames and built containment lines around a two-day old wildfire that charred nearly 22 square miles (57 square kilometres) of brush i...
AP EXCLUSIVE: On tour of oil production rigs, Salazar says deepwater drilling ban to continue
The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet (107 ...
Russian police arrest Kremlin opponent, dozens of others, at freedom-of-assembly demonstration
MOSCOW - Russian police arrested a leading Kremlin opponent and dozens of fellow activists Sunday at a demonstration demanding freedom of assembly. Several hundred protesters gathered in a Moscow s...
