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Last year, dying children stood outside hospitals in northern India waiting for an empty bed during one of the worst encephalitis outbreaks in recent memory. Now, they’re lining up again for hours to receive a shot that could save their lives. Since May, nearly 11 million children ages 1 to …

IRVINE, Calif. – What is believed to be the world’s largest photo was successfully created in a hangar that had been converted into a massive camera at the former El Toro Marine Corps base. About 30 people showed up Wednesday to see the fuzzy, 28-by-108-foot black-and-white image taken by six …

BOSTON – In the investing world, it can be a short three-step walk from problem to new regulation. First, a problem is uncovered. Next, “victims” or “losers” are identified. Then, regulations and legal remedies are proposed. So when a hedge fund run by Amaranth Advisors blew up and made headlines …

NEW YORK – U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday was trying to settle a flap over a potentially damaging claim made earlier in the day by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad said Annan had told him Iran could ignore a Security Council resolution requiring the country to cease enriching uranium …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Amnesty International accused Pakistan on Friday of taking hundreds of people into custody on suspicion of terrorism and holding them in secret locations or handing them to U.S. authorities for money. Pakistan’s practice of offering rewards running to thousands of dollars for unidentified terror suspects has led …

PARIS – A band of up to 30 youths armed with makeshift weapons and some wearing masks attacked two riot police patrolling a housing project outside Paris in an apparent ambush that seriously injured one of the officers, police officials said Wednesday. The attack Tuesday night raised the specter of …

WASHINGTON – President Bush said Tuesday a nuclear-armed Iran would blackmail the free world and raise a mortal threat to the American people. “I am not going to allow this to happen,” Bush said in a speech on terrorism. “And no future American president can allow it, either.” With allies …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. needs roughly 3,000 more Iraqi forces to join the battle in Baghdad, but requests for the troops have not been met because Iraqi soldiers are reluctant to leave their home regions, the commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad said. Maj. Gen. James Thurman told Defense Department …

We now know what the CIA plans to use on terror suspects to get them to talk. I have the list, put together by The Guardian, the Brit newspaper which thinks Americans torture terror suspects. It includes: induced hypothermia; forcing suspects to stand for prolonged periods; sleep deprivation; a technique …

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities have arrested the leader of a Colombian drug cartel responsible for nearly half of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico said Friday. The arrest of Jaime Maya-Duran “shows the determination of U.S. and Mexican law enforcement authorities to pursue …