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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Ecuador Thursday, the final stop of his five-day Latin American tour.

The Myanmar government signed a cease-fire deal with a rebel group Thursday, the same day Aung San Suu Kyi's party said it will join the upcoming elections.

The Marine Corps distanced itself Thursday from a video purporting to show members of one of its sniper teams urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan, even as military officials said they could not immediately verify its origin or authenticity.

The United States could inch closer next week toward peace talks with the Taliban if Afghan President Hamid Karzai blesses the negotiations, senior administration officials said Thursday.

Fabiola Leocal's story ought to be uncommon, but in post-earthquake Haiti, it's not. Two years after the disaster, about half a million Haitians are still in camps.

Police are to investigate claims that the British secret services were involved in the rendition of two men to Libya and their alleged ill treatment there, London's Metropolitan Police said Thursday.

Somali pirates are not building palaces with swimming pools with the ransoms they collect from international shipping companies and hostages, but they are helping the local economy, a new report finds.

A terrorist attack in Afghanistan Thursday killed five people, including a government official and his two sons, officials said.

Syria’s government blamed an “armed terrorist group” for the mortar attack that killed a French journalist and eight Syrians in strife-torn Homs.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Cuba Wednesday and called on developing countries to unite against "imperialism and capitalism."