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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
Nine die in Israeli raid
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli commandos rappelled down to an aid flotilla sailing to thwart a Gaza blockade on Monday, clashing with pro-Palestinian activists in a …
Israel key to mideast nuclear arms ban
UNITED NATIONS - After 15 years, Arab nations finally won agreement from the United States and the other nuclear powers to take the first step toward banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. Now the next move …
World Briefs May 30, 2010
India halts trains after 115 die
DOJ, Arizona officials meet over immigration law
PHOENIX - Justice Department officials told Arizona's attorney general and aides to the governor Friday that the federal government has serious reservations ab…
Attackers strike sect
LAHORE, Pakistan - Islamist gunmen and a suicide squad lobbed grenades, sprayed bullets from atop a minaret and took hostages Friday in attacks on two mosques …
Volcanic eruptions hit Guatemala, Ecuador
GUATEMALA CITY - Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America on Friday, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and disrup…
World Briefs May 28, 2010
Doctor: At least 30 dead in India train derailment
Target of bloody raid may have left Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica - After a slum raid that left nearly 50 people dead in four days of gunbattles, the reputed drug kingpin who was the target may have fled the…
N. Korea cuts ties with South, raises war rhetoric
SEOUL, South Korea - Relations on the divided Korean peninsula plunged to their lowest point in a decade Tuesday when the North declared it was cutting all ties to Seoul as punishment for blaming the communists for…
30 killed in gun battles in Jamaican slums
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos where reggae was born Tuesday in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the United States, intensifying a third day of street ba…
South Korea wins U.S. support for trade action against North Korea
SEOUL (AP) - South Korea won U.S. support Monday for slashing trade to North Korea and vowed to haul its communist neighbor before the U.N. Security Council for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship and…
US base stays on Okinawa
TOKYO (AP) - Okinawans were outraged Sunday that Japan's prime minister reneged on his campaign pledge to move a U.S. military base off their island, a decision that upholds a longstanding agreement with Washington.
Clinton faces hard sell
SHANGHAI - Courting the Chinese people, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to make the case Saturday for greater cooperation and partnership …
American, 13, climbs Everest, calls his mom
BEIJING - The youngest climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest hugged his tearful companions and told them he loved them. Then 13-year-old Jordan Romero too…
Insurgents attack NATO's southern Afghan base
KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons launched a ground assault Saturday against NATO's biggest base in southern Afghanistan, wounding several coalition troops and civilian e…