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WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Tony Snow said Wednesday the United States is working with “regional and international partners” to keep Al Qaeda from establishing itself in northeastern Africa, but would not say whether that included warlords in Somalia. Snow cited Somalia’s lack of a functioning government and said …

SANTIAGO, Chile – A Chilean Supreme Court panel freed former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on bail Thursday while he fights extradition on corruption and human rights charges. The justices voted 4-1 to allow the former authoritarian leader to go free, but they prohibited him from leaving Chile, said the president …

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – A second Army paratrooper pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from an investigation of soldiers who appeared on a military-themed pornographic Web site. Pvt. Kagen B. Mullen, 21, one of seven members of the 82nd Airborne Division charged with appearing on the site, pleaded to charges …