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LONDON -- The bells of St Clement Danes Church on The Strand chimed on the hour at 10 a.m.  Gray clouds hung low over traffic-filled streets and the cold chilled to the bone. So a pretty typical February day in central London. It became untypical at around 11, after two you …

OFUNATO, Japan -- In a large, bright room not far from the ocean that raged through this coastal Japanese city nearly a year ago, a handful of people with magnifying glasses pore over boxes of photographs of friends or loved ones. The massive March 11 tsunami that leveled buildi …

Updated at 2:40 p.m. ET: KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of angry Afghans protested outside a U.S.

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PARIS -- European governments are ready to agree to a new bailout package for Greece, France's finance minister said Monday ahead of a meeting with his counterparts in Brussels. Francois Baroin told Europe-1 radio that while details will have to be worked out, "the political com …

MEXICO CITY -- Around 44 prisoners died in battles between rival drug cartels in a prison in northern Mexico on Sunday, with victims being beaten, stabbed and stoned to death, according to officials. "We can't rule out the possibility that some prisoners escaped, which also could …

A Ugandan cabinet minister accompanied by police raided a gay rights conference, claiming that one of the organizers had insulted him and demanded she be arrested, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. The minster for ethics and integrity Simon Lokodo told activists that the gathe …