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TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica -- Policymakers met polar explorers Monday on the boundless ice of Antarctica as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific expedition came in from the cold to report on the [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Government investigators digging into the grim hidden history of mass political executions in South Korea have confirmed that dozens of children were among many thousands shot [...]

BALI, Indonesia In a hushed conference hall, as envoys from 186 nations looked on, the world's lone superpower took a tongue-lashing from the most powerless, nation after poor nation assailing [...]

BALI, Indonesia Delegates at the U.N. climate conference extended closed-door talks into an extra day today, nearing resolution of a dispute over how far future negotiations should go in trying [...]

BALI, Indonesia The United States will come up with its own plan to cut greenhouse gases by mid-2008, and won't commit to mandatory caps at the U.N. climate conference here, [...]

UNITED NATIONS Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in a campaign sure to last years and to pit them against [...]

UNITED NATIONS With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first U.N. climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into talks to reduce [...]

BAGHDAD Suspected al-Qaida bombers destroyed the towering minarets of Samarra's revered Shiite shrine Wednesday, dealing a bold blow to Iraqi hopes for peace and reopening old wounds a year after [...]

MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq With a thunderous rumble and cloud of dust and smoke, an apparent suicide vehicle bomb brought down a section of highway bridge south of Baghdad on Sunday, wounding [...]

BAGHDAD, Iraq From south and north, Iraq's Kurdish region felt pressure from two sides Saturday, as saboteurs bombed a vital bridge link to Baghdad, and Turkish troops across the border [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya If the sun warms the Earth too dangerously, the time may come to draw the shade. The 'shade' would be a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the [...]

Do you believe in Iraqi 'WMD'? Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003? Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts [...]

From the African bush to Indonesia's shores, the number of wars worldwide has dropped to a new low, peace researchers report. But the face of conflict is changing, they say, [...]

More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war's chaotic early days has come to light a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing [...]