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In recent months, senior U.S. and Pakistani officials have stepped up efforts to tame the area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, used by the Taliban as a base to fire rockets and smuggle weapons. (Nikki Kahn/Post)

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Launch of seven missiles -- Pyongyang's largest one-day barrage of test missiles in three years -- might be intended to discourage deployment of new missile defenses against communist state, according to some experts.

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Stakes High in Afghanistan Ahead of August Elections: Candidates Campaign as U.S. Battles Insurgents in Helmand Province (Post, July 5, 2009; 11:22 AM)

Afghans Fear Violence Could Subvert August Elections: Candidiates Campaign as U.S. Battles Insurgents in Helmand Province (washingtonpost.com, July 5, 2009; 8:28 AM)

Afghan-Pakistani Hostility Impedes U.S. Troops (Post, July 5, 2009)

Russia Presents New Test for Obama on Overseas Trip (Post, July 5, 2009)

U.S. Misread Scale of Honduran Rift: Zelaya's Closeness to Venezuela's Chávez Was Source of Concern for Opponents (Post, July 5, 2009)

Link Between Iraq Violence and Troop Withdrawals Is Considered (Post, July 5, 2009)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Riot Police Clash in Jerusalem Over Opening of Parking Lot (Post, July 5, 2009)

Africa

Investigators Find Flight Recorder From Yemen Airbus (Post, July 1, 2009; 9:14 AM)

International Court Under Unusual Fire (Post, June 30, 2009)

U.S. Has Sent 40 Tons of Munitions to Aid Somali Government (Post, June 27, 2009)

The View From Egypt: Arab Activists Watch Iran And Wonder: 'Why Not Us?' (Post, June 26, 2009)

U.S. Sends Weapons to Help Somali Government Repel Rebels Tied to Al-Qaeda (Post, June 25, 2009)

Asia/Pacific

Karzai's Challengers Face Daunting Odds (Post, July 6, 2009)

A 'Common Front' for The Marginalized in India (Post, July 6, 2009)

Afghan-Pakistani Hostility Impedes U.S. Troops (Post, July 5, 2009)

In N. Korea, Missiles Herald A Defiant 4th (Post, July 5, 2009)

Insurgents Step Up Attacks on Marines (Post, July 4, 2009)

Europe

In Moscow, Obama to Focus on Arms Control (Post, July 6, 2009)

Russia Presents Test for Obama (Post, July 5, 2009)

Honduras Targets Protesters With Emergency Decree (Post, July 2, 2009)

Jews Remain Stymied In Efforts to Reclaim Art Looted by Nazis (Post, June 28, 2009)

Iran's President Rebukes Obama; Candidates Reject Election Review (Post, June 28, 2009)

Latin America

U.S. Misread Scale of Honduran Rift (Post, July 5, 2009)

Honduras Denies Late Appeal by OAS (Post, July 4, 2009)

Honduran Leadership Stands Defiant (Post, July 3, 2009)

Honduras Targets Protesters With Emergency Decree (Post, July 2, 2009)

Ally's Ouster Gives Venezuela's Chávez a Stage, an Opportunity (Post, July 2, 2009)

North America

'Tunnel Rats' Patrol Border Storm Drains (Post, June 24, 2009)

MEXICO AT WAR: On the Wild Border, A Revival of Nature (Post, June 22, 2009)

Mexican Dentists Now Fill Only Time (Post, June 18, 2009)

MEXICO AT WAR: In Juarez, A Trail of Drugs and Violence (Post, June 15, 2009)

In Mexico, the U.S. Downturn Hits Home (Post, June 14, 2009)

Middle East

In Moscow, Obama to Focus on Arms Control (Post, July 6, 2009)

Iranian Details Alleged Fraud (Post, July 5, 2009)

Link Between Iraq Violence, Troop Withdrawals Considered (Post, July 5, 2009)

Biden Warns of Ending Commitment (Post, July 4, 2009)

France Hopes to Jump-Start Its Arms Sales With New Iraqi Government (Post, July 4, 2009)

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Biden: Israel has right to deal with nuclear Iran (Reuters, July 5, 2009; 9:24 PM)

Biden: Israel has right to deal with nuclear Iran (Reuters, July 5, 2009; 9:24 PM)

Zelaya's plane circles Honduran runway, can't land (AP, July 5, 2009; 9:03 PM)

Muslim minority riots erupt in China's west (AP, July 5, 2009; 8:46 PM)

Recession pushed 90 mln into extreme poverty (Reuters, July 5, 2009; 8:38 PM)

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