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US and Cuba agree to resume migration talks

US and Cuba agree to resume migration talks

HAVANA -- The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said Wednesday, the latest evidence of a thaw in...

Posted: Yesterday at 8:15 pm EDT
  • WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama ditches jacket

    WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama ditches jacket

    BERLIN -- President Barack Obama invoked President John F. Kennedy's famous Cold War speech in Berlin 50 years ago in his Brandenburg Gate speech Wednesday. But he was not trying to best him. Not when his crowd of 4,500 was one one-hundredth the size of Kennedy's.

    Posted: Yesterday at 8:10 pm EDT
  • Magnitude-5.7 quake shakes central Chile

    Magnitude-5.7 quake shakes central Chile

    SANTIAGO, Chile -- A magnitude-5.7 earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital but apparently causing no major damage.

    Posted: Yesterday at 8:10 pm EDT
  • Few options for Brazil leader in face of protests

    Few options for Brazil leader in face of protests

    SAO PAULO -- With massive protests by middle-class Brazilians demanding wholesale government reforms, people all over this continent-sized country have reached a verdict on the streets and online: "The giant has awakened."

    Posted: Yesterday at 8:15 pm EDT
  • US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects

    US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects

    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants.

    Posted: Yesterday at 8:10 pm EDT
  • Venezuela: Plane that disappeared in '08 found

    Venezuela: Plane that disappeared in '08 found

    CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan authorities say the undersea wreckage of a small plane that disappeared five years ago with 14 people aboard has been found.

    Posted: Yesterday at 8:15 pm EDT
  • Obama to renew calls for nuclear reductions

    Obama to renew calls for nuclear reductions

    BERLIN -- President Barack Obama will renew his call Wednesday to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in U.S. and Russian arsenals, the White House said.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:05 am EDT
  • US and Cuba to resume migration talks

    US and Cuba to resume migration talks

    HAVANA -- A State Department official says the United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, in the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations.

    Posted: Yesterday at 2:10 pm EDT
  • Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban move

    Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban move

    KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find a way to end the nearly 12-year war.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:05 am EDT
  • Monsoon floods kill 86 in India, strand pilgrims

    Monsoon floods kill 86 in India, strand pilgrims

    LUCKNOW, India -- A joint army and air force operation has evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern India, but nearly 63,000 people remain cut off, a senior official said Wednesday.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:05 am EDT
  • One of US FBI's most wanted nabbed in Mexico

    One of US FBI's most wanted nabbed in Mexico

    CANCUN, Mexico -- Mexican authorities have arrested a former university professor who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in the resort city of Playa del Carmen.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:05 am EDT
  • Turkish official approves 'standing man' protest

    Turkish official approves 'standing man' protest

    ANKARA, Turkey -- The new form of resistance that is spreading through Turkey has received a nod of approval from the country's deputy prime minister.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:05 am EDT
  • Bomb blast, gunmen attack UN compound in Mogadishu

    Bomb blast, gunmen attack UN compound in Mogadishu

    MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated at least one bomb blast and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:05 am EDT
  • UN, US ask Filipinos not to leave Golan Heights

    UN, US ask Filipinos not to leave Golan Heights

    MANILA, Philippines -- The United Nations and Washington have separately asked the Philippines not to withdraw its more than 300 Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan Heights, warning of "maximum volatility" in the region after a number of countries decided to pull out their peacekeeping forces amid escalating violence, the Philippines' top diplomat said Wednesday.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:10 am EDT
  • China, North Korea hold strategic talks in Beijing

    China, North Korea hold strategic talks in Beijing

    BEIJING -- Negotiators from North Korea and China held strategic talks in Beijing on Wednesday as they work to repair strained relations, but offered little indication they will lead to a resumption of nuclear disarmament talks any time soon.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:10 am EDT
  • Protesters out again in Brazil's biggest city

    Protesters out again in Brazil's biggest city

    SAO PAULO -- Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament -- people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:10 am EDT
  • Syria state TV says explosion hits military depot

    Syria state TV says explosion hits military depot

    BEIRUT -- An explosion at a military depot outside Syria's coastal city of Latakia left six people lightly injured on Wednesday, state television said.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:10 am EDT
  • UK soldiers' families can sue over Iraq deaths

    UK soldiers' families can sue over Iraq deaths

    LONDON -- Britain's highest court says the families of several soldiers killed or injured in Iraq can sue the government for failing to protect them.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:10 am EDT
  • Air France-KLM orders 25 wide-body Airbus A350s

    Air France-KLM orders 25 wide-body Airbus A350s

    LE BOURGET, France -- Air France-KLM ordered 25 Airbus A350 jets on Wednesday, saying the wide-body plane that flew for the first time last week will be central to its plan to expand long-haul flights after years of struggling against discount carriers in Europe.

    Posted: Yesterday at 7:10 am EDT
  • Montreal interim mayor resigns after fraud arrest

    Montreal interim mayor resigns after fraud arrest

    MONTREAL -- For the second time in less than a year, a Montreal mayor has stepped down amid corruption scandals ripping through Canada's second-largest city.

    Posted: 06/18/13 at 8:35 pm EDT
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