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Fumes from a smoke grenade linger in the air as U.S. Marines gather at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.
In the coming days, U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers will try to eject insurgents from Marja, an area of Afghanistan that American engineers helped transform from swaths of desert to wheat fields in the 1950s. (Photos By Andrea Bruce/the Washington Post)

The anniversary of the Islamic revolution is usually a day of unity, but people could take to the streets in numbers not seen since election.

• U.S. offers to help on isotopes


Underlying economic problems facing Greece and some other European countries mean that radical cutbacks in government spending and more social pain are likely to follow.


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Africa

Televangelist denies 'quid pro quo' with ex-Liberian president
(Post, February 4, 2010; 7:49 PM)

Southern Sudan warns U.N. about role in independence vote
(Post, February 2, 2010)

U.S. playing a key role in Yemen attacks
(Post, January 27, 2010)

Digest: Digest
(Post, January 27, 2010)

Afghanistan War Deaths
(Post, January 24, 2010)
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Asia/Pacific

Burma sentences Md. man to 3 years of hard labor
(Post, February 10, 2010; 6:10 AM)

The boy from the battlefield
(Post, February 10, 2010)

A major push into Taliban bulwark
(Post, February 10, 2010)

Toyota launches another global recall
(Post, February 10, 2010)

Digest: Digest
(Post, February 8, 2010)
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Europe

Europe to shore up Greece, wary of what lurks nearby
(Post, February 10, 2010)

Digest: Digest
(Post, February 9, 2010)

Analysis: Iranian plan will move nation closer to having material for bomb
(Post, February 9, 2010)

Drop in U.S. aid hits fragile Ukraine
(Post, February 7, 2010)

Gates skeptical of Iran's claims about nuclear deal
(Post, February 7, 2010)
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Latin America

A month later, earthquake relief efforts still fall short
(Post, February 9, 2010)

Children taken in Haiti face uncertain fate
(Post, February 8, 2010)

For Haitian songstress, the show must go on
(Post, February 8, 2010)

Quake upends rules of criminal justice
(Post, February 7, 2010)

U.S. Baptist group charged in Haiti
(Post, February 5, 2010)
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North America

Haiti seeks more food and shelter aid for coming weeks
(Post, January 26, 2010)

Security forces prepare for Olympic Games
(Post, January 23, 2010)

Waiting for help: Digging through the destruction
(Post, January 15, 2010)

LETTER FROM MEXICO: Museum on drugs reflects harsh new reality
(Post, January 14, 2010)

Reputed Mexican drug lord arrested in raid on vacation home in Baja California
(Post, January 13, 2010)
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Middle East

The boy from the battlefield
(Post, February 10, 2010)

At war, quiet support for openly gay troops
(Post, February 10, 2010)

U.S., allies moving quickly on sanctions against Iran, Obama says
(Post, February 9, 2010; 2:44 PM)

Analysis: Iranian plan will move nation closer to having material for bomb
(Post, February 9, 2010)

Iran set to produce more potent uranium
(Post, February 8, 2010)
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Latest Wire Reports

5 die in brief gunbattle in Somali capital
(AP, February 10, 2010; 8:56 AM)

Ethiopian jet's 2nd black box retrieved from sea
(AP, February 10, 2010; 8:54 AM)

TV helicopter crashes in Brazil, pilot killed
(AP, February 10, 2010; 8:52 AM)

Doctor says vendor may have been in rubble 27 days
(AP, February 10, 2010; 8:39 AM)

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy duped
(AP, February 10, 2010; 8:37 AM)
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