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KABUL (AP):The latest partial results in Afghanistan's presidential election show front-runner Abdullah still leading but far from the majority needed to avoid a runoff.Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign...

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):The Trinidad and Tobago government has called on parents to use "non-physical forms of discipline" when dealing with their children after a video went viral on social network...

LONDON (AP): The West should set aside its differences with Russia and China to focus on the growing threat from radical Islam, Tony Blair said yesterday, in a speech that included a call to support Egypt's military government against its Muslim Brotherhood opponents.

FRANCEPARIS (AP):A study by the United Nations education agency says cellphones are getting more and more people to read in countries where books are rare and illiteracy is high.Paris-based UNESCO says 774 million people worldwide cannot read, and most...

NASSAU (CMC):Police say they have intercepted a vessel carrying 132 Haitian migrants just off Ragged Island in The Bahamas.The authorities said with the assistance of local fishermen, they were able to apprehend the illegal migrants...

The confirmed death toll from the South Korean ferry that capsized last week has reached 113, as divers recover more bodies from the sunken hull.

NORTH CAROLINA, CHARLOTTE, (AP):North Carolina's biggest city is looking at ways to boost growth by attracting new immigrants to the United States, a move some complain would welcome people living in the country illegally.The Charlotte Observer reports...

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has warned eligible nationals of Haiti who currently have Temporary Protected Status to re-register by May 2.

DONETSK, Ukraine:Within hours of an Easter morning shoot-out at a checkpoint manned by pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine, Russia's foreign ministry issued a statement blaming militant Ukrainian nationalists and Russian state television stations...

American former boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, whose wrongful conviction for murder caused an international outcry, has died at the age of 76....

The first funerals were held yesterday morning for six victims who died in the Sewol ferry sinking.The families of two teachers and four students from Danwon High School bid farewell to their loved ones at separate funerals held in Ansan, Gyeonggi...

Four French journalists kidnapped and held for 10 months in Syria returned home yesterday to joyful families, a presidential welcome and questions about how France managed to obtain their freedom from Islamic extremists.The four - Edouard Elias, Didier...