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Tzipi Livni will be Israel's first female prime minister in 34 years.

Pakistan says they got no warnings from US ahead of suspected missile strike.

US military says 7 American soldiers die in helicopter crash in southern Iraq.

Defense secretary says US 'looking at' possible shifts in Afghanistan strategy.

Asian stock markets dive after Wall Street's fall; AIG bailout deepens fears.

California's top court says it will hear challenges to the gay marriage ban, but it will remain in place for now.

Wall Street plunges more than 5% on Wednesday to its lowest level in over five years on rising economic worries.

Al-Qaeda deputy leader calls on Muslims to harm America, describing President-elect Obama as a "house slave".

The owners of a Saudi oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates are negotiating a possible ransom, the Saudi foreign minister says.

Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security software suite and will discontinue its OneCare service.

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Paloma weakened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moved slowly across east-central Cuba after lashing Grand Cayman Island with high winds and heavy rain, forecasters said.

The bodies of the men executed for the deadly 2002 bombings of two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, returned to their villages Sunday, hours after they were put to death by firing squad.

Authorities have detained the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed on Friday, killing at least 84 students, sources said.

An engine fell off a Mexican government jet before it crashed, killing the second-highest official in the nation, the Cabinet member in charge of the investigation said Saturday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is refusing to make public the security pact it has signed with Iraq, even though it has already been published in full in an Iraqi newspaper, a congressional hearing was told on Wednesday.

VIENNA (Reuters) - A Syrian complex bombed by Israel bore multiple features resembling those of a nuclear reactor and U.N. inspectors found "significant" traces of uranium at the site, a watchdog report said on Wednesday.

KANYABAYONGA, Congo (Reuters) - Hundreds of Congolese rebel fighters pulled back on Wednesday from frontline positions in a move U.N. peacekeepers hoped would open the way for talks on ending weeks of conflict in east Congo.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An Indian warship blew up a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden and gunmen from Somalia seized two more vessels, defying the foreign warships patrolling the seas off their anarchic country.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Still popular after a decade in power, President Hugo Chavez aims to consolidate his hold on Venezuela in tight state elections on Sunday that may give him a platform to speed up his socialist "revolution."