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WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 15, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Much of Chile was in the dark Sunday after a blackout knocked out power to 90 percent of the country, CNN's sister network in the country reported... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Mar 11, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile this morning, just as the country was swearing in a new president... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Feb 21, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Philippine marines killed six suspected militants Sunday in an assault in the country's restive southwest, the military said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Feb 21, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The United Arab Emirates will bring the killers of a top Hamas official to justice, the country's foreign minister said Sunday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Feb 20, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- At least 41 people died when a centuries-old minaret collapsed at a mosque in Morocco on Friday, the country's official news agency reported on Saturday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 11, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- When Nelson Mandela stepped out of South Africa's Victor Verster prison a free man 20 years ago Thursday, he was his country's most famous freedom fighter... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 8, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Iran will this week celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution -- a day that marked the end of the country's western-backed monarchy and the start of an Islamic republic... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jan 30, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The North Korean government informed the State Department on Friday that it is holding a second American citizen who the North Koreans say entered the country from China, a State Department spokesman said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jan 28, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- An American was detained in North Korea for trespassing on the country's border with China, state-run KCNA reported Thursday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 27, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo Sosa was sworn in Wednesday as president of Honduras, bringing an end to the de facto government that ruled the country following a coup in June... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 27, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Although Haiti's capital is in ruins and hundreds of thousands are homeless, a former prime minister of the earthquake-ravaged country vowed "this country is not doomed.".. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jan 5, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Yemen, a rugged, poor country on the southern Arabian Peninsula, is emerging as a key theater in the international fight against terrorism... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 29, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- North Korea announced Tuesday it is holding an American who illegally entered the country on Christmas Eve, possibly a Korean-American missionary... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 22, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Fountains of red-hot lava shot up from the intensifying Mayon volcano as the Philippines awaited an imminent eruption, the country's national news agency reported Tuesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Dec 21, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes as scientists warn the towering Mayon volcano is about to explode in the Philippines, the country's national news agency reported Monday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Dec 6, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour the U.S. must have patience if his country is not ready to take over security by July 2011... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 24, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Philippine government declared a state of emergency in southern parts of the country Tuesday after gunmen kidnapped and killed more than 40 people, according to state-run media... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Nov 7, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A senior Iranian politician said Saturday the country would not ship low-enriched uranium out of the country, which is a major part of a pending nuclear deal between Iran and international powers, according to semiofficial state media... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 8, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- It hasn't been too often in the past couple of years that you could write about good news from Pakistan. But if there is a silver lining to the atrocities that have plagued the country in the past several years, it is the fact that the Pakistani public, government and military are increasingly seeing the jihadist militants on their territory in a hostile light... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 8, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Nearly one in four people worldwide is Muslim -- and they are not necessarily where you might think, according to an extensive study that aims to map the global Muslim population. India, a majority-Hindu country, has more Muslims than any country except for Indonesia and Pakistan, and more than twice as many as Egypt. China has more Muslims than Syria. Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon... Read More