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Monday, February 10, 2014 - 00:00
Officials say Martinez worked with powerful cartels including the Carrillo Fuentes and Beltran Leyva organizations, as well as Colombian smugglers Victor and Miguel Mejia Munera.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 11:13
A new series of car bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday killed at least 16 people, officials said, as Iraq's Shiite-led government grapples with a stubborn Sunni extremist-led insurgency in the western Anbar province.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 00:00
The drug cartel leader had a $2.25 million reward on his head from the Mexican government.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 11:06
A massive explosion hit Egyptian police headquarters in downtown Cairo early Friday in the deadliest bomb blast in Egypt's capital since a military coup ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last summer.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 07:10
Fresh violence killed at least 26 people Monday in Iraq, where the U.N. chief was on a visit urging leaders to tackle the issues driving fighting in a western province where the army is in a standoff with al-Qaeda-linked fighters.
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 07:13
The call from Biden, who had served as Obama's point-man on winding down U.S. involvement in Iraq, is the second he's made to the Iraqi leader this week.
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 07:35
Rebels in South Sudan are forcibly recruiting civilians to march on the national capital, the military said, even as representatives of the warring factions gathered in neighboring Ethiopia for the expected start of peace talks Thursday.
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 13:26
U.S. military quick-reaction forces put in the field after the September 2012 attack on the U.S. consular compound in Benghazi, Libya, have been in the middle of this month's evacuation of Americans from strife-torn South Sudan.
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 00:00
Little has changed in the secretive, closed-off enclaves the Zapatistas have formed in the half-dozen communities they hold
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 00:00
"The President looks forward to working closely with President-elect Bachelet to advance our shared interests in the years ahead."

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