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Gunmen kill 11 foreign tourists in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Gunmen killed 11 foreign tourists before dawn Sunday as they were visiting one of the world’s highest mountains in a remote area of northern

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Attacks kill NATO service member, 2 Afghan police

Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked local security checkpoints in a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, killing two policemen in a fight that also left 18 insurgents dead, Afghan officials said Saturday. NATO said a coalition

Brazil leader breaks silence about protests

Brazil: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ended her near-silence about days of massive, violent protests, saying in a prime-time TV broadcast Friday that peaceful demonstrations were part of a strong democracy but that violence could not

NSA leaker charged with espionage, theft

WASHINGTON: The Justice Department has charged former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property in the NSA surveillance case. Snowden, believed to be holed

Short story great Alice Munro says she is ‘probably’ done writing

NEW YORK: Less than a year after Philip Roth announced he had stopped writing books, another literary great may be retiring: Alice Munro. The 81-year-old Canadian author, widely regarded as

Floods strand pilgrims in India, deaths could rise

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Monsoon flooding that has stranded thousands of people and caused landslides in northern India has killed almost 120 people, and the prime minister said the toll

World Bank highlights climate-poverty link

STOCKHOLM: The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a “climate lens.” In a report released Wednesday, the international lending institution

UN says 45.2 million refugees and displaced people

GENEVA: The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by

IMF calls for urgent steps on Spain unemployment

MADRID: The International Monetary Fund says recession-wracked Spain is making progress but is urging policymakers both within the country and in Europe to take “urgent action” to slash the country’s

Obama’s Berlin speech: History raises the stakes

BERLIN: Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can’t escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement. With his own 2008