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Nation & World

Published
April 11, 2010

Pakistan releases pair of top Taliban figures, raising new questions

Officials say Pakistan's security establishment continues to support the Afghan Taliban.
Published
April 11, 2010

Kyrgyz ponder whether to abandon absent president, follow new leader

The U.S. has a key air base in Kyrgyzstan, whose stability is threatened by the week's events.
Published
April 10, 2010

Former Zimbabwe leader dies at 85

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The first black prime minister of an interim white-dominated government before Zimbabwe’s independence, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, died at his Harare home Thursday, his family said. He was 85. Muzorewa, a Methodist bishop, joined the government of the short-lived Zimbabwe-Rhodesia in a deal with Ian Smith, the last white prime minister, in 1978, […]
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April 10, 2010

Kidnapping survivor dies 30 years later

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Timothy White, the youngest victim and last survivor of a notorious California kidnapping saga, has died. He was 35. White was 5 years old when he was kidnapped in Ukiah by child molester Kenneth Parnell. Two weeks later, fellow kidnap victim 14-year-old Steven Stayner fled with the boy, known as “Timmy,” […]
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April 10, 2010

Ramsbotham, ex-U.K. envoy to U.S., dead

LONDON — Peter Ramsbotham, who served as Britain’s ambassador to Washington during the Watergate era, died Friday, his family said. He was 90. Zaida Ramsbotham said her husband died of pneumonia at their family home in the village of Ovington in southern England. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Ramsbotham served in the British Intelligence Corps […]

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Published
April 10, 2010

Russians outraged over return of adopted boy

Other adoptions may be held up after a U.S. mom sends the 7-year-old back, claiming he is violent.
Published
April 10, 2010

World and Nation Dispatches

RIO DE JANEIRO Death toll reaches 205 as excavation continues The death toll from landslides and floods in and around Rio de Janeiro this week reached 205 on Friday and was expected to rise as searchers continued looking for bodies, authorities said. Morning and afternoon downpours threatened to set off new slides as emergency crews […]
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April 10, 2010

‘Gulf War syndrome’ review wavers on cause

WASHINGTON — As many as 250,000 veterans of the first Gulf War “have persistent unexplained medical symptoms” whose cause may never be found, although genetic testing and functional brain imaging may eventually shed some light on the problem. That is one of the conclusions of a new review of research on the constellation of physical […]
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April 10, 2010

President says Karzai remains ‘critical partner’

WASHINGTON — President Obama says Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai remains “a critical partner” with the United States in the fight against terrorism despite Karzai’s recent harsh criticism of the West. In an interview broadcast Friday, Obama said he still thinks Karzai is committed to giving his government greater legitimacy by helping its people and rooting […]
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April 10, 2010

Four killed as Osprey goes down in combat

The costly aircraft has been beset by delays and plagued by design flaws and other problems.