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Suicide bomber kills 3 near Pakistani air base
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide car-bomber killed at least three people on Monday near a Pakistan air force base close to the northwestern city of Peshawar and the Afghan border, a government official said.
Reuters 11/16/2009 2:11 PM
Obama arrives in China for maiden visit
SHANGHAI – US President Barack Obama arrived in China late Sunday for his first visit to the Asian giant -- a three-day mission aimed at convincing Beijing that Washington is its partner, not its rival.
Agence France-Presse 11/16/2009 10:10 AM
Kosovo vote a first since independence declaration
PRISTINA – Kosovo went to the polls Sunday for the first time since the ethnic Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia last year, amid a partial boycott by a divided Serbian community.
Agence France-Presse 11/16/2009 7:22 AM
Italian police arrest Sicilian Mafia 'number two'
ROME – Italian police on Sunday captured the number two leader of Sicily's Cosa Nostra Mafia, Domenico Raccuglia, after 15 years on the run, officials said.
Agence France-Presse 11/16/2009 7:15 AM
El Salvador storm toll rises to 192: official
SAN SALVADOR - Salvadoran authorities raised the death toll from devastating floods and mudslides this week to 192 from 184 as more bodies turned up in storm-ravaged areas of the country. Another 80 people were reported as missing.
Agence France-Presse 11/16/2009 7:07 AM
UN 'Hunger Summit' starved for attention
ROME - The leaders of the world's wealthiest nations will be conspicuous by their absence as more than 60 heads of state and government gather in Rome this week for a UN summit on the plight of the planet's billion hungry.
Agence France-Presse 11/16/2009 1:15 AM
Obama tells Myanmar PM: release Suu Kyi
SINGAPORE - US President Barack Obama used a landmark encounter with the prime minister of military-run Myanmar on Sunday to demand freedom for detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
Agence France-Presse 11/16/2009 1:09 AM
Obama in a grass skirt? Hawaii to host APEC 2011
SINGAPORE - US President Barack Obama invited fellow leaders in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to a summit in Hawaii in 2011, but may have alarmed them with the dress code.
Reuters 11/16/2009 12:06 AM