By ISABEL KERSHNER
An Israeli leftist advocacy group said on Friday it was starting a campaign to help Palestinians sue the state of Israel for its use of their privately owned lands for Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
By CELIA W. DUGGER
Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday that he would join his nemesis, President Robert Mugabe, as prime minister in a power-sharing government.
By MARK LANDLER
While no final decision has been made — and travel schedules are fickle — Clinton is leaning toward a trip that could include Japan and China, officials said.
By CORNELIA DEAN
An international panel of marine scientists says oceanic acidity is accelerating so fast it threatens the survival of coral reefs, shellfish and the marine food web generally.
By JUDY DEMPSEY
NATO was reeling Friday after the leaking of a classified document in which the military alliance's supreme commander of Europe proposed that NATO soldiers serving in Afghanistan shoot drug traffickers without waiting for proof.
By JACK HEALY
The U.S. economy shrank at its fastest pace in 26 years from October through December, the government reported on Friday, in the broadest accounting yet of the toll of the credit crisis.
By JAD MOUAWAD
Exxon Mobil, the largest publicly traded oil company in the world, said Friday that its profit fell 33 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 as the price of oil declined. But it set a record for full-year earnings.
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- North Korea says all agreements with South are void
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- Erdogan flies home to a hero's welcome
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Facing the failure of the war on drugs in Afghanistan, some have proposed that the U.S. buy the entire Afghan opium crop. Share your thoughts.
Facing the failure of the war on drugs in Afghanistan, some have proposed that the U.S. buy the entire Afghan opium crop. Share your thoughts.
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