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When Ok Chin was a child, her mother brought her to an orphanage. The family was poor, and her mother heard that the girl would get fed and clothed. …

Guess who's whining the loudest these days, wailing that they're getting a raw deal from Barack Obama. Not the unemployed and barely employed - even though the White House …

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Santiago, Chile; and Mexico City — On the morning of Dec. 8, 81 inmates at the San Miguel prison in Santiago died when rioting prisoners set their overcrowded penitentiary …

Think back to the good old days just before the world financial system exploded. Remember all the talk then of “decoupling”? What advocates of the decoupling thesis had in …

Johnny O'Broderick was my first direct ancestor to emigrate from Ireland to the United States, eventually sending back enough money for his wife, Mary, to book passage and follow …

The UN Climate Conference (COP16) in Cancun is turning out to be both anti-climactic and anti-climatic. There will be no major agreement to stop global warming this week, despite …

Haiti is on edge after Haiti's election council announced preliminary results in the November 28 election, which even the US Embassy has questioned:

Cancun, Mexico - At the end of the first week of climate negotiations under way in this Mexican Caribbean resort city, it seems a distant possibility that the nearly …

• Iran’s influence in Latin America, serious threat or paper tiger? • Rumors of Iran’s involvement have been greatly overstated