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AP:It almost feels these days as if there is no safe place - that after global jihad strikes a Nairobi shopping mall or a deranged shooter invades the Washington Navy Yard, the next target could very well be our own store, school, theatre or stadium.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):Kenya yesterday sharply criticised a decision by the United States to reissue a travel advisory for the country in the wake of the deadly attack on an upscale mall in the capital Nairobi, highlighting fears that the assault could...

The Postal Service's proposal to raise the price of mailing a letter to 49 cents is sure to face scrutiny from lawmakers as a Senate panel considers bipartisan legislation to overhaul the cash-strapped agency.Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe's...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):The militant group behind the takeover of a Nairobi mall claimed yesterday that a Kenyan government assault team carried out "a demolition" of the building, burying 137 hostages...

ROME (AP):Silvio Berlusconi's 28-year-old girlfriend says she courted the 76-year-old former premier relentlessly until he finally surrendered, and is now just waiting for him to agree to marry her.In an interview published yesterday in the Italian...

PARIS (AP)The French government has declared the economic crisis over and is promising that its budget for next year will bring growth and jobs, but experts are criticising the proposal from all sides and a true rebound looks a ways...

WASHINGTON (AP) Americans stepped up purchases of new homes in August after cutting back in July, suggesting that higher mortgage rates are not yet slowing the housing recovery.Sales of new homes increased 7.9 per cent last month to a seasonally...

UNITED NATIONS (CMC):The Caribbean, which ranks second behind sub-Saharan Africa for HIV/AIDS infection rates, has led the world in reducing the number of new infections between the period 2005-2011...

BROWNSVILLE, (AP):For more than two decades, Sigifredo Saldana Iracheta insisted he was a United States (US) citizen, repeatedly explaining to immigration officials that he was born to an American father and a Mexican mother in a city just south ...

Here are details about some of the victims. Ross Langdon, an architect who worked in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, creating eco-lodges and socially sustainable tourism in ecologically sensitive locations...

ISLAMABAD (AP):Pakistan released its highest-ranking Afghan Taliban prisoner on Saturday in an effort to jump-start Afghanistan's struggling peace process, Pakistani officials said.The Afghan government has long demanded that Pakistan free Mullah Abdul...