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Grand Isle, LA--An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off…

New Orleans--The image of thick crude gushing from a blown-out oil well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico was…

Washington--President Barack Obama opened a new round of Mideast peacemaking Wednesday, bringing Israeli and Palestinian leaders to the White House…

Kabul--NATO says seven American service members have died in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan.No details were given…

Egypt's antiquities authority announced on Wednesday the discovery of an ancient trading settlement in one of its desert oases dating…

Melilla, Spain--In this crowded and muggy speck of Europe perched on Africa's shoulder, with the Mediterranean to one side and…

Stockholm--WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has dismissed sexual abuse allegations, telling a Swedish newspaper he's never had sex that wasn't consensual.Swedish…

Stockholm--WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suspected of rape in Sweden, where authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest, officials…

Paris--France's interior minister says that a radical Muslim imam and a "preacher of hate" has been expelled to his Egyptian…

KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait — A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the pre-dawn desert, lumbered…