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Winners at Cannes are hits in Italy too
This is the year of the mafia -- at least at the box office. Two films on organized crime in Italy, each fact-based melodramas, took top prizes at the Cannes...
3 years in, pontiff blazing own path
Most Americans awaiting Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the U.S. this month likely know little about him beyond his fluffy white hair, his taste for red Prada shoes and...
Serbian candidates head to runoff
Serbs winnowed their presidential field Sunday to two candidates -- nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic and incumbent Boris Tadic -- for a runoff widely seen as defining Serbia's ambitions for European...
Chicago’s Greeks ache for homeland
From her home in the Chicago suburbs, Helen Varvaressos always saw Greece as a touchstone. The 70-year-old immigrant returned every year to the three-room country home where she and eight...
Olmert: ‘No limit’ in halting rockets
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, facing an unrelenting cascade of militant rocket fire this month and the death of another Israeli cut down in the border city of Sderot, told his...
Rumbles against the regime
Even as Tehran ignores threats from the U.S. and other foreign powers, shouts and murmurs from within may begin to take a toll on the conservative mullahs running Iran. The...
A Christmas Gift
Gift Dorcas Sumo was speeding through the night in her first airplane ride, miles above and beyond her homeland. As dawn broke, the tiny Liberian teenager blinked at the ribbons...
Old enemies embrace in Tehran
Iran reached out to Iraq and the American public in separate gestures Wednesday, giving the Baghdad government a $1 billion line of credit while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a...
Israeli troops mass at border
Israel's military leaders Friday readied its army and people for intense ground battles in southern Lebanon by massing troops at the border, calling up thousands of reservists and characterizing the...