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Rescue workers carry the body of a mudslide victim in Ilha Grande, an island off the city of Angra dos Reis near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.

photo: AP / Felipe Dana

Rio hotel horror, as landslides kill 63
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ANGRA DOS REIS - Rescuers pulled more bodies from an avalanche of thick mud and rock that buried a luxury Brazilian hotel filled with New Year's revelers, as the death toll from heavy rains in the south of the country rose to 63. Twenty-eight people were killed in the tragedy at the hotel on Ilha Grande - a resort island southwest of Rio - and...

In this image taken from a video posted on extremist Web sites affiliated with al-Qaida on Thursday Dec 21, and reported to be made at an unknown location in Yemen, a man identified by the sites as Mohammed al-Kalwi, an al-Qaida activist, delivers a eulogy for militants killed in a Yemeni airstrike on a militant training camp to a large gathering of militants.

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US, Britain widen anti-terror front in Yemen
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The US and Britain stepped up the fight against an emerging 'terrorist threat' in Yemen, as Obama for the first time blamed Al Qaeda for attacking a US airliner. Obama on Saturday accused a Yemen-based affiliate of Osama bin Laden's group of targeting the jet on Christmas Day. US General David Petraeus meanwhile held talks in Sanaa with Yemen's...

An Afghan parliament member checks his ballot papers before voting for the new cabinet in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.

photo: AP / Farzana Wahidy

Afghan MPs snub Karzai's new cabinet
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's president, , was dealt a painful political blow yesterday when the country's parliament rejected 70% of his nominees for a new cabinet, including a regionally powerful warlord and the only female minister. The secret ballot of MPs, which came at a crucial point in Karzai's quest for legitimacy in the eyes of Afghans and the rest of the world,...

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband gestures while speaking during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday July 27, 2009.

photo: AP / Virginia Mayo

Britain's Ghosts of Opium Drug Wars Past and Present
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In A Christmas Carol, English writer and author Charles Dickens described the conversion of Ebenezer Scrooge. Before his conversion, Scrooge was a "grasping old sinner" and served as a symbol of greed and miserable self-loathing. On Christmas Eve, three ghosts, or spirits, two of which were...

Local residents carry a body through the site of Friday's suicide car bombing in Friday's suicide car bombing in Shah Hasan Khel village near Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.

photo: AP / Naveed Sultan

Pakistan attack a warning to anti-Taliban tribes
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Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | SHAH HASAN KHEL, Pakistan (AP) — A northwest Pakistani village that tried to resist infiltration mourned on Saturday the victims of an apparent revenge suicide bombing that killed 96 residents during a volleyball game. The attack on the outskirts of Lakki Marwat city was one of the...

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki gestures while speaking to the Security Council Saturday, March 24, 2007 at the United Nations headquarters. The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted Saturday to impose new sanctions against Iran for its ref

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Iran warns West it will make its own nuclear fuel
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Iran is warning it will produce nuclear fuel on its own if there is no deal to have the West deliver the fuel in exchange for...

File - USS WorldPhotos.comsburg (CG 64) Verify Board Search and Seizure (VBSS) and US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 409 capture suspected pirates after responding to a merchant vessel distress signal while operating in the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) area of responsibility as part of Combined Task Force (CTF) 151.

photo: US Navy file / MCS1 Eric L. Beauregard

Somali pirates seize Indonesian chemical tanker
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Somali pirates have hijacked a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden - the third vessel seized in waters around Somalia this week. Maritime officials said the Pramoni -...

Soldiers stand next to the body of a rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, after clashes in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Saturday, July 25, 2009.

photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez

Colombia: 18 rebels killed in attacks on 2 camps
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BOGOTA - Colombia's military says air and ground assaults on two rebel camps have killed 18 insurgents and captured 13. An attack by guerrillas a few hours earlier killed a soldier and a teenage girl...

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, sits in the offices of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in Aarhus, Denmark, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009.

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Police thwart deadly attack on Danish cartoonist
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COPENHAGEN -- Police foiled an attempt to kill an artist who drew a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad that sparked outrage in the Muslim world, the head of Denmark's intelligence service said today. Jakob Scharf, who heads the PET intelligence service, said a 28-year-old Somalia man was armed with an ax and a knife when he attempted to...

A damaged inn is seen after a mudslide in Ilha Grande, an island off the city of Angra dos Reis near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010.

photo: AP / Felipe Dana

Brazil: Deadly Mudslide at Resort Near Rio
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A rain-loosened slab of hillside collapsed on three houses and an upscale lodge after New Year's celebrations at a resort near Rio de Janeiro, killing at least 19 people, the authorities said. About 120 rescuers scrambled through mud and around toppled trees and large rocks to search for survivors of the mudslide. Police helicopters and navy...