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at 21:32 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Thirteen Afghan civilians died in violence as the nation's hard-line vice-president expressed hope for reconciliation and representatives of a militant group with ties to the Taliban brought a peace deal to the capital.
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at 21:28 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
MIR ALI, Pakistan - Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at a house and car in a militant-dominated tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four people.
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at 21:04 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denied that the government plans to impose controls on the Internet, saying Sunday that his administration aims to increase Web access rather than limit it.
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at 21:03 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - One restored a Haitian president to power; the other flew him back out again. Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are visiting Haiti on Monday, reminding the country of its tumultuous recent past just as frustration over an uneven earthquake relief effort is bringing politics back to the surface.
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at 21:01 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Hundreds of angry residents in an Argentine town have torched the city hall to protest the death of two teenagers in a police chase.
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at 20:45 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
WASHINGTON - A last-minute compromise that swung a half-dozen anti-abortion Democrats behind President Barack Obama's health care bill - virtually ensuring its passage - failed to placate outside activists on either side of the issue, and drew derision from Republicans.
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at 20:44 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A small earthquake struck northern Haiti early Sunday, collapsing an apartment building and killing at least three people, a U.N. spokesman said.
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at 20:42 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has urged Catholics to refrain from judging sinners a day after he rebuked Irish bishops for their handling of a half-century of sexual abuse of minors by clergy.
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at 19:48 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
CARACAS, Venezuela - Press freedoms in countries throughout the Western Hemisphere are facing serious threats from authoritarian governments, especially in Venezuela and communist-led Cuba, a group representing news media from across the Americas warned Sunday.
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at 19:46 on March 21, 2010, EDT.
PARIS - The long-flailing French left made a big-time comeback Sunday, crushing Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives in regional elections colored by voters' economic worries - and informally kicking off the 2012 presidential race.
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