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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti on Friday condemned the jailing of thousands of people who have not been convicted of a crime, saying the practice violated prisoners' human rights. Only 10 percent of some 4,000 prisoners have been convicted, U.N. spokeswoman...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A letter from President Bush to Iraq's supreme Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was hand-delivered earlier this week but sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office, a key al-Sistani aide told The Associated Press on Thursday...

NABLUS, West Bank - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the northern West Bank settlement of Kedoumim after nightfall Thursday, killing three Israelis, settlers and Israeli media said. Army Radio said police suspect three Israelis, two women and a man, gave a...

The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a militarily unsuccessful rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916. Nevertheless, despite its military failure, it can be judged as being a significant stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Irish...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - The main coalition airbase in Kandahar has apparently been hit by three mortar rounds. Three distinct explosions were heard around 3 a.m. local time Tuesday and U.S. helicopter gunships were scrambled. There has been no immediate comment from military officials...

Now if H5N1 results in collapse of governments will people go into a tribal system. Yes or No?

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The singer who dressed as a policeman in the flamboyant late 1970s disco band "Village People" has been arrested after disappearing while drug and gun charges against him were pending, officials said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Victor Willis, who co-wrote some of the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan's government must not waste any time in agreeing to a U.N. force to stabilize its western Darfur region, where the situation is daily becoming more troubling, said a senior U.S. official on Monday. "There is no time to waste. There are people suffering and dying...

KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has appealed for asylum in another country, the United Nations said Monday after hundreds of Muslims marched against a court's decision to dismiss his case. Afghan officials did not...

JERUSALEM - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has laid out the choice in stark terms: a vote for his Kadima Party in Tuesday's election is a vote for an Israeli pullback from much of the West Bank. ADVERTISEMENT Barring an unexpected right-wing surge, Israelis will give a green light to...