A huge emergency effort is under way in the Samoan islands after towering tsunami waves triggered by an 8.0 earthquake left dozens dead and entire villages flattened or submerged. “I thought it was the end of the world,” a medical official in the American Samoan capital, Pago Pago, told CNN.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck in Indonesia on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Ketsana, downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical depression, is heading towards Laos Wednesday after leaving a trail of death and destruction across Southeast Asia.
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The United States will withdraw another 4,000 troops in Iraq by the end of October, the U.S. military commander in Iraq said in prepared testimony for a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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Israel will release 20 Palestinian female prisoners and detainees in a deal to obtain a recent proof-of-life videotape of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli Security Cabinet announced Wednesday.
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The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency said Iran broke the law by not disclosing sooner its recently revealed uranium enrichment site.
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Thursday’s meeting between the United States and Iran may be the highest-level talks in three decades between the two countries, but the United States is cautious about predicting what might come next.
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A senior American diplomat had high-level talks with the Cuban government in Havana, the State Department said Tuesday.
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Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu as Government forces battle insurgents but civilians are often caught in the middle. Some of the wounded are transported by ambulance, a rare sight in these parts, and one of seven paid for with donations from local and expatriate Somalis.
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