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Another section of supermarket falls in Latvia

RIGA, Latvia – A massive third section of the roof at a Latvian supermarket where at least 54 people were killed fell Saturday as emergency workers searched nearby rubble for more victims. T...

Pakistani drone protesters block supply route

NATO troops stopped from accessing Afghanistan

Political ideology part of London slavery case

LONDON – New details emerged Saturday in the bizarre case of three suspected female slaves allegedly held for 30 years, with police indicating the unusual household arrangement started as a ...

World Briefs

Iraqi mosques closed by Sunnis in protest BAGHDAD – Iraqi Sunni religious leaders said Saturday they closed the sect’s mosques in Baghdad indefinitely to protest attacks targeting...

Sticker shock hits health shoppers

Prices vary across states; some consumers squeezed

Afghan spokesman rebuffs U.S. troop deal deadline

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s president on Friday rebuffed American demands that he sign a security pact allowing U.S. forces to stay in the country for another decade, while the U.S. d...

Detained American’s wife asks N. Korea for his return

PALO ALTO, Calif. – The wife of an 85-year-old veteran being detained in North Korea implored authorities on Friday to let her husband return to his anxious family and end what she called a ...

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Two children rescued from pond improving MINNEAPOLIS – A family spokesman says two of the children rescued from a pond after a car veered off a suburban Minneapolis highway ramp ...

Web inventor: Surveillance threatens democracy

LONDON – The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web spoke out Friday against what he called a “growing tide of surveillance and censorship,” warning that it is threatening the ...

Philippine typhoon death toll rises above 5,000

MANILA, Philippines – The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record has risen above 5,000 and is likely to climb further, although recovery efforts are beginning to take hold, ...

In Middle East mess, Morocco tries to catch Obama’s eye

WASHINGTON – As President Obama faces increased skepticism from Arab world allies over his administration’s talks with Iran, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI’s White House visit on Friday comes at...

World Briefs

Kerry, others heading to Geneva for Iran talks GENEVA – Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers of other major powers lent their weight to the Iran nuclear talks ...