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Newsweek: As the casualty figures from the quake soar, an engineering expert discusses whether better building codes could have prevented some of the deaths and injuries.
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The bin Laden family
Video: How the wealth and diversity of one of Saudi Arabia's most eminent families influenced its notorious son.
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Sudan closes border with Chad
Chad closed its border with Sudan on Monday and put a halt to bilateral trade, a minister said, a day after Sudan severed diplomatic ties with Chad.
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Colombia extradites militia bosses to U.S.
Colombia extradited 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States on Tuesday on charges related to drug trafficking, saying they violated the peace pact under which they demobilized.
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China: Quake left 18,000 buried in one city
The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades.
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Einstein letter calls Bible 'pretty childish'
Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core? A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's religious views.
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Vietnam sentences American for terrorism
A court in southern Vietnam sentenced an American man of Vietnamese origin on Tuesday to six months in prison on terrorism charges and ordered that he be deported after serving his sentence, a judge said.
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Rice: Mideast peace 'improbable'
The United States said Tuesday that reaching a Mideast peace agreement within the next eight months "might be improbable but it's not impossible."
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Key al-Qaida member killed in Afghanistan
A prominent member of al-Qaida was killed in fighting with U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site on Sunday.
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Cease-fire holds in Sadr City
A shaky cease-fire appeared to take hold Tuesday in Baghdad's Sadr City, after a cleric who brokered the deal for Shiite fighters said they would honor it even after clashes left at least 11 dead and 19 wounded.
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