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Gather a hundred heads of state in the same place, get them talking privately among themselves and hope a global climate pact starts to gel.
Seventy years ago Sunday, the Soviet Union signed a pact with Nazi Germany that gave dictator Josef Stalin a free hand to take over part of Poland and the Baltic states on the eve of World War II.
The assisted suicides of an elderly British couple at a Swiss clinic rekindled the fierce debate Friday over whether Britain should modify its laws to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with a doctor's help.
The European Union and Canada will open their aviation markets to each other by removing restrictions on direct flights and foreign ownership in airlines, according to a deal reached Tuesday.
Iraq's three-member presidential council on Thursday approved a security pact with the United States that sets out a three-year timeframe for the full withdrawal of American troops, a spokesman said.
Excerpts from the U.S.-Iraqi security agreement approved Thursday "on the withdrawal of United States forces from Iraq and the organization of their activities during their temporary presence in Iraq."
A Long Island doctor who admitted killing his terminally ill wife last month in a botched suicide pact has apparently taken his own life.
Ten Iraqi insurgent groups have agreed to escalate attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces to derail the proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, an Internet monitoring service said Tuesday.
Iraq's government spokesman said Monday the proposed U.S. changes to a draft security agreement were "not enough" and asked Washington to offer new amendments if it wants the pact to win parliamentary approval.
Excerpts from the draft U.S.-Iraqi security agreement meant to replace the U.N. mandate for American-led forces in Iraq, which expires on Dec. 31. The Associated Press obtained a copy and translated the material from Arabic.
U.S. troops subject to prosecution under Iraqi law for alleged crimes beginning in 2009 will be "well protected" under the terms of a draft U.S.-Iraq security agreement, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
American troops could face trial before Iraqi courts for major crimes committed off base and when not on missions, under a draft security pact hammered out in months of tortuous negotiations, Iraqi officials familiar with the accord said Wednesday.
Schools in the Massachusetts city where girls reportedly made a "pregnancy pact" will allow contraceptives to be distributed — with parental consent.
Iraq's prime minister said Wednesday that obstacles remain in negotiations with the United States over a security pact that will determine the future of American forces in Iraq.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dug in his heels Monday on the future of the U.S. military in Iraq, insisting that all foreign soldiers leave the country by a specific date in 2011 and rejecting legal immunity for American troops.
The former principal of a Massachusetts high school who told Time magazine there was a pact among some students to get pregnant now has a new job.
A high school principal who set off a furor after being quoted as saying that teenage girls formed a pact to get pregnant has resigned, weeks after his comments were publicly questioned by the mayor.
The Horribles Parade in an affluent area north of Boston is supposed to poke fun and feature all things politically incorrect. But a float that spoofed the spike in teen pregnancies in a nearby city was too much for three parade judges.
The high school where the principal claimed girls formed a pact to get pregnant is one of the few in Massachusetts with a day care center, leading some to wonder whether that sent a message that teen motherhood is OK.
The principal of a Massachusetts high school who said a group of students intentionally got pregnant stood by his comments Thursday, saying his information "was and is accurate."
The principal of a Massachusetts high school who said a group of students intentionally got pregnant stood by his comments Thursday, saying his information "was and is accurate."
A joint statement by the Burundi government and the country's last remaining rebel group says the two sides have signed a "cessation of hostilities."
President Hugo Chavez joined with his leftist allies on Wednesday to create a $100 million program to fight the rising cost of food for Latin America's poor.
Curtis Thurman had just finished catching fish when a wildlife enforcement officer popped suddenly out of the forest to issue him a citation for illegal snagging in the South Fork of the Boise River.
A woman who feared she would lose her boyfriend while she recuperated from surgery arranged for her 15-year-old daughter to have sex with him, authorities said.
Nigeria signs $1 bln EU pact to fight corruptionBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nigeria signed a 677 million euro ($1 billion) pact with the European Union on Thursday aimed at combating corruption and promoting peace in its troubled, oil-producing Niger Delta region.
Ex-Indian scientists call for more nuclear testing, despite US pactNEW DELHI - A little more than a year after India and the United States signed a historic civilian agreement lifting a 30-year ban on nuclear trade, some former top nuclear scientists here are arguing that India needs to conduct another weapons test.
'Suicide pact' teenage girls died hand in hand by jumping 125ft from bridgeTwo teenage girls leapt hand-in-hand from a bridge to their deaths after one left a 'suicide' message on a social networking site. The friends, aged 14 and 15, jumped more than 100ft from a notorious suicide spot and plunged into a river.
Obama to reassure Canada on free trade pactThe president is seeking to assure Canada, the largest U.S. trading partner, that he has no interest in disturbing the two countries' economic relationship.
Iraq parliament OKs pact on U.S. troops' futureAfter months of tough negotiations and intense political wrangling, Iraqi lawmakers Thursday approved the U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, a pact that allows the presence of American troops in Iraq for three more years.
Husband 'left wife's body hanging for eight weeks after backing out of suicide pact'Excerpt: A husband has been arrested in connection with the death of his wife whose body is believed to have been left hanging in their house for the past eight weeks. Detectives are quizzing the man in his 50s after he called officers to tell them she was dead.
The Obama effect Iraq's approval of the security pact shows that Obama's diplomatic approach is already paying dividends. Now, he must talk to Iran.Barack Obama isn't even president yet, but he has already helped bring the Iraq war closer to an end.
Pact, Approved in Iraq, Sets Time for U.S. Pullout - NYTimes.comIraq's cabinet on Sunday overwhelmingly approved a proposed security agreement that calls for a full withdrawal of American forces from the country by the end of 2011.
Obama's Iraq Plans Vindicated as US Agrees to Pull Out by 2011Iraq and the United States have finally agreed on a security pact which would mean that US forces would withdraw from Iraq by 2011, American and Iraqi officials said yesterday.
NATO signs accession pacts for Albania, CroatiaBRUSSELS, July 9 (Reuters) - NATO states signed accession protocols for Albania and Croatia on Wednesday, setting them on the path to entry into the Western military pact early next year.
Shock as schoolgirl pact leads to 17 pregnancies It has hardly been unremarked upon in the fishing town of Gloucester in Massachusetts that girls at its North Shore High School have been getting pregnant in alarming numbers. No fewer than 17 have turned up with child this year, four times the level seen last year.
US probes teen 'pregnancy pact'Officials in the US state of Massachusetts are investigating how 17 teenage girls from the same school have become pregnant. The number is four times as high as the year before at Gloucester High School.
Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases Pact Were a RuseTwo key pledges made by the George W. Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully-worded ruses aimed at concealing U.S. negotiating aims from both U.S.
Tanzania Celebrates Launch of New Cancer Treatment EquipmentThere was an air of celebration at the Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI) in Dar es Salaam last week.
Mr. Bush, the President who is viewed favorably by nearly 30% of Americans, plans to have a US-Iraq pact completed by July of this year. He plans on ensuring a US presence in Iraq for at least ten years.
Iran Wins Neighbors' Pledge Not to Help U.S. AttackIran, facing U.S. pressure over its nuclear program, secured a pledge from Russia and the other three nations that surround the Caspian Sea not to allow America or its allies to launch an attack on it from their soil.
Evaluating Needs: Finding SolutionsWhen international Public Health specialist Dr. Elio Omobono visited Vietnam for the first time earlier this year, he found a country in transition.
Huge crowds in Costa Rica protest U.S. pact'More than 100,000 Costa Ricans, some dressed as skeletons, protested a U.S. trade pact on Sunday they say will flood their country with cheap farm goods and cause job losses.
Nicaragua: Appealing for greater cancer prevention (Mr. Neyra)Mr. Neyra's decision to become a medical physicist came about by coincidence. In the mid-1990s, he was studying general physics at the University in Managua when one of his professors, former CNR Director Fabio Morales, urged him to specialize in medical physics.
Russia Warns It May Quit Key Arms Pact In 5 MonthsMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Saturday it would suspend its participation in a key pact limiting military forces in Europe in five months' time unless a compromise was found on updating the treaty.
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