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Five people were killed and more than 50 injured in heavy exchange of fire between Islamic insurgents and security forces in the Somali capital, officials said.

American officials try to lower expectations about extent of U.S. role in rebuilding efforts in Haiti.

AFP – Pakistani and US officials are increasingly convinced that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, who was behind the suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan in December, had died from wounds sustained in a drone strike, Th…

Officials in Barack Obama’s campaign say they are bullish on the South, and they have signaled their aggressiveness with early campaign appearances in North Carolina and Virginia, major voter re…

Reuters – The United States has expanded land- and sea-based missile defense systems in and around the Gulf to counter what it sees as Iran’s growing missile threat, U.S. officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has expanded land- and sea-based missile defense systems in and around the Gulf to counter what it sees as Iran’s growing missile threat, U.S. officials said.

Oklahoma’s death toll for a winter storm that left thousands without power in the state climbed to three Sunday, emergency officials said.

Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Feb 1 (IANS/EFE) Thirteen people were killed and 16 wounded when gunmen opened fire at a birthday party in Mexico's border city of Ciudad Juarez, officials said.

Law enforcement officials said a group of armed men stormed a party in the northern border city of Juarez, killing 13 teenagers and young adults and injuring about two dozen.The bodies of the victims,…

Thomas F. Vietor, a spokesman for the White House, said he hoped a plan for the critically injured could be announced within hours, but declined to comment further. Officials who asked for anonymity b…