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MEXICAN troops have clashed with the hitmen for suspected drug-traffickers in a cemetery, leaving 15 people dead in a fierce shoot-out, as more violence rocks the country. The gun battle in the tourist town of […] […]

THE body of an Australian nuclear scientist who went missing in the wilds of Canada five months ago has been found in the Ottawa River near the town where he was living. Two canoeists found […] […]

DRUG-related violence in Mexico has claimed 43 lives in one day, including 12 police officers killed in an ambush and 28 inmates slain in prison clashes between rival gangs. The early morning ambush took place […] […]

AT least The New York Times remembers that we’re at war. On Saturday, it published a remarkable piece by a remarkable reporter, Dexter Filkins, suggesting that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has lost virtually all interest […] […]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip—A France-based satellite provider is halting broadcasts of the Hamas TV channel to Europe and parts of the Arab world because of concerns that it spreads incitement, a station official said Tuesday. […] […]

Muslim extremists and far-Right groups fought in Barking today, just before soldiers returning from Afghanistan were to parade through the town. About 40 members of a group called Muslims Against the Crusades emerged out of […] […]

CONGRESSIONAL investigators say documents uncovered as part of their inquiry into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have raised “serious questions about the decisions made by BP in the days and hours before the explosion […] […]

WITNESSES “concocted an untrue story” to cover up involvement by the Prince of Wales and the Emir of Qatar in the cancellation of a $140 million modernist housing project, Britain’s High Court has been told. […] […]

GENEVA—Entrenched conflicts in Afghanistan, Somalia and other countries prevented a record number of refugees from returning home last year, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday. Only an estimated 251,500 refugees went home in 2009—the lowest […] […]

WASHINGTON—An informant told the FBI in 1965 that it was rumored, though never substantiated, that mafia bosses hoped to use associates of entertainer Frank Sinatra to ensnare brothers Robert and Edward M. Kennedy in compromising […] […]