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Pakistan’s top judge back after 2 years of turmoil

Published March 24, 2009

Pakistan's supreme court chief justice called for an end to judicial corruption after returning to bench Tuesday for the first time in two years.

At least 23 killed in Iraq suicide blast

Published March 23, 2009

The provincial security office said 23 people were killed and 34 wounded in the attack.

Mexico offers $2 million for top drug lords

Published March 23, 2009

The list indicated that drug gangs have splintered into six main cartels under pressure from the U.S. and Mexican governments.

Pakistan militants strengthen in heartland

Published March 23, 2009

Authorities say militant groups in Punjab are increasingly sending out fighters to Afghanistan and the border region.

Defying warrant, Sudanese president travels abroad

Published March 23, 2009

It was his first trip abroad since an international court sought his arrest on charges of war crimes in Darfur.

Some Muslim clergy join Nigeria’s war on polio

Published March 22, 2009

KANO, Nigeria (AP) âÄî In 2003, imams in northern Nigeria fomented a boycott of polio vaccinations claiming they were a Western plot to make Muslims infertile or infect them with AIDS. The result:...

Reality TV star Jade Goody dies after cancer fight

Published March 22, 2009

LONDON (AP) âÄî Jade Goody's family asks for "privacy at last" after the death at 27 of the brash former dental assistant who turned her tumultuous life and struggle with cervical cancer into a...

500,000 expected for Pope’s last big Africa event

Published March 22, 2009

LUANDA, Angola (AP) âÄî Hundreds of thousands of Angolans have gathered for an open-air mass that is the last major event of Pope Benedict XVI's first African pilgrimage. Officials expect 500,000...

Israel, Hamas say talks on prisoner swap not over

Published March 22, 2009

JERUSALEM (AP) âÄî Both Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers said Sunday that talks aimed at freeing an Israeli soldier held nearly three years by Palestinian militants are not over, despite last week's...

New video shows Briton kidnapped in Iraq in 2007

Published March 22, 2009

BAGHDAD (AP) âÄî The British Embassy said Sunday it had received a new video showing one of five Britons taken hostage nearly two years ago allegedly by Shiite extremists that the U.S. believes...