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Cuba on Wednesday accused former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson of “blackmail” and denied the government had invited him here to negotiate the release of an American contractor sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The Security Council is on the verge of authorizing the U.N. to set up operations in Libya to assist the National Transitional Council in post- Gadhafi planning. It is also likely to loosen sanctions that were imposed on that country in the spring, acc…

Mexican government officials plan to include the border city of Juarez in independence celebrations despite raging drug-related violence in the area.

Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 233 people in Pakistan, a disaster agency spokesman said Wednesday, as a weather forecast calls for more rain over deluged parts of the country.

Libya’s interim leadership gave residents in the pro-Gadhafi stronghold of Bani Walid a 48-hour notice to leave the city, as it sent reinforcements there and to the former regime’s other remaining strongholds at Sirte and Sabha.

The father of long-missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway has asked a court to declare her dead, a move the girl’s mother says came as a surprise.

Explosions rocked two government security offices Thursday morning in Aden, Yemen. The first explosion occurred at the city’s political security headquarters, while the other was at al-Mualla police station, witnesses said.

A senior U.S. official is blaming the Haqqani Network, run by a father and his sons, for this week’s attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. If the group claims credit, it will be only the latest attack on its resume of terror. FULL STORY |…

The Iranian Judiciary said it is considering a request for setting bail in the case of two American hikers accused of spying, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported Wednesday.