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TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday said he was prepared to take emergency job-creation measures to ease painful economic reforms widely expected to exacerbate record unemployment in Japan.

BONN, Germany (AP) - In groups of six or eight, policy makers huddled around the negotiating table trying to build momentum toward an agreement to control global warming.

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - More than 40 African heads of state gathered Sunday in Lusaka for a summit that will bury the Organization of African Unity and see the closer-knit African Union rise in its place.

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the fourth time in six years, the House endorsed a constitutional amendment to protect the American flag from desecration.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A critical computer aboard the international space station briefly failed Tuesday night as a pair of astronauts got ready to go out on their second spacewalk of the mission.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Two astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk Tuesday night to hook up air tanks on the international space station's new entryway following a brief yet critical computer breakdown.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Calling a peace summit with India ``a good beginning,'' President Pervez Musharraf on Friday urged Pakistan and India to ignore extremists in their search for a settlement to the decades-old dispute over Kashmir.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's front-running presidential candidate brushed off a guerrilla threat Tuesday, vowing to go ahead with a bold protest march into the rebels' main stronghold.

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Former adversaries the United States, China and Russia are showing fresh unity in the war on terrorism, but old wounds in the Pacific Rim region reopened Friday when Taiwan decided to boycott an APEC meeting on rival China's...

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Former adversaries the United States, China and Russia are showing fresh unity in the war on terrorism, but old wounds in the Pacific Rim region reopened Friday when Taiwan decided to boycott an APEC meeting on rival China's...

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Punctuating its support for efforts to launch a new round of global trade talks, China announced Friday it had abolished dozens of rules and regulations affecting a broad swath of its economy.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - With Northern Ireland's power-sharing government on the brink of collapse, Britain faces a Friday night deadline on whether to strip the government's powers - and if so, for how long.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - With Northern Ireland's power-sharing government on the brink of collapse, Britain faces a Friday night deadline on whether to strip the government's powers - and if so, for how long.

David Moore walks through the two different sides of Guilt that we all feel.

Angry with their country's failure to bring to justice the terrorists responsible for seven deaths last week, Pakistan's embattled Christians clashed with police during a funeral Tuesday in Karachi. More violence against Christians is predicted. ...