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KABUL, Afghanistan – An American supervisor for a U.S. security firm allegedly shot to death his Afghan interpreter after a quarrel this week, Afghan officials said Friday. Noor Ahmad (search), 37, was shot in the head late Tuesday at a compound of his employer, U.S. Protection and Investigations, at Tut …

BEIJING – The six countries involved in North Korean disarmament talks extended their negotiations beyond Saturday while considering a Chinese proposal for the Pyongyang (search) regime be allowed to keep a peaceful nuclear program in return for giving up its atomic weapons ambitions. Some of the delegations had yet to …

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea (search) said Tuesday it would not dismantle its nuclear weapons program until the United States first provides an atomic energy reactor, casting doubt on its commitment to a breakthrough agreement reached at international arms talks. The North insisted during arms talks that began last …

NEW YORK – The Coast Guard (search) says millions of pleasure craft, fishing boats and ferries fall outside its security nets, hampering its ability to safeguard thousands of miles of coastline against terrorist attack. “How do we include recreational boats — some 58 million in this country — into our …

AMMAN, Jordan – Saddam Hussein’s (search) daughter has devised a strategy for the defense of Iraq’s ousted leader, including a media campaign and hiring of a new team of international lawyers, for the expected start of her father’s trial next month, she said Saturday. Raghad Saddam Hussein (search) said in …

GENEVA – The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (search) said Thursday an unprecedented attack on a displaced persons’ camp in Sudan (search)’s embattled Darfur region reportedly has killed 29 people. Antonio Guterres, chief of the U.N. agency, cited aid workers’ reports of the attack Wednesday at Aro Sharow camp, which …

Hurricane Katrina death tolls reported by state and local officials as of Thursday. Officials have said they expect the toll to reach the thousands. ALABAMA: 2 FLORIDA: 11 GEORGIA: 2 LOUISIANA: 118 MISSISSIPPI: 204 TOTAL: 337

BATON ROUGE, La. – Finding cattle is one of the concerns along the flooded Louisiana coastline. The Army is using Blackhawk helicopters (search) to search for thousands of cattle feared stranded in the high water left behind by Hurricane Rita. A spokesman for the Louisiana Cattlemen’s Association says since all …

He may have tried to rob The Long and the Short of It, but he didn’t know the half of it. Concord, N.H., police said Thomas Dufield, 37, of nearby Laconia broke into the aforementioned whimsically named hair salon Wednesday night, but had a little more trouble breaking out. “He …

WAKEMAN, Ohio – The children — polite and well-dressed — seemed ordinary enough to neighbors, who hired some of them to help bale hay and saw them playing in a yard filled with toys. But the 11 children — all with conditions ranging from autism to fetal alcohol syndrome — …