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More than 100 Taliban killed in clashes in southern Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban militants launched a surprise attack on a key southern Afghan town, sparking a battle that killed some 60 insurgents, an Afghan official said Sunday. A second clash in ...

Pope creates 4 new saints, including Indian woman

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has given the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman whose canonization is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India. Catholics are a ...

Hurricane Norbert weakens as it crosses over Mexico's mainland

PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico - Officials from the U.S. National Hurricane Center say Hurricane Norbert has made landfall but is weakening over mainland Mexico. The Miami-based center says the Category...

Pakistan officials say Missile strike kills five in northwest

DERA ISMAIL KHAN - The latest in a barrage of suspected U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's northwest killed five people, but none were believed to be foreign al-Qaida fighters, officials said Sunday. ...

North Korea to resume dismantling nuclear facilities

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed the communist country from a list of states that sponsor terr...

Austrian politican Haider going twice the speed limit before crash, police say

VIENNA, Austria - Austrian investigators say far-right politician Joerg Haider was speeding at more than twice the posted limit before the car crash in which he died. Police reconstructing the acci...

Rocket carrying Americans, Russian launches on space station voyage

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Two Americans and a Russian are on their way to the international space station. A Russian rocket with a Soyuz capsule carrying American computer game millionaire Richard Gar...

Residents get OK to return after Pa. chemical leak

PETROLIA, Pa. - About 2,500 people who fled when a corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant and evaporated were allowed to return home Sunday after authorities determined that no to...

More than 100 Taliban killed in battles in souther Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - An Afghan official says more than 100 militants have been killed in two separate battles in southern Afghanistan. Daud Ahamdi, the spokesman for Helmand province's governor,...

About 2,500 residents flee chemical leak in western Pennsylvania

PETROLIA, Pa. - A corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant in western Pennsylvania on Saturday, evaporating into a toxic cloud that snaked along the ground and forced about 2,500 to...