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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan moved closer Thursday to restarting nuclear reactors for the first time since last year's earthquake and tsunami led to a nationwide shutdown after a mayor gave his support to a plan to bring two of them back online....

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed three suspected militants in an attack on a building in a town close to the Afghan border....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut - enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds....

DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Investigators in Qatar say faulty wiring on a fluorescent light sparked a fire last month that killed 19 people, including 13 children, in the Gulf nation's biggest mall....

McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- Marred by just a few scorch marks from its re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, the world's first commercial supply spacecraft to visit the International Space Station weathered its maiden voyage well, NASA and SpaceX officials said Wednesday....

McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- Marred by just a few scorch marks from its re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, the world's first commercial supply spacecraft to visit the International Space Station weathered its maiden voyage well, NASA and SpaceX officials said Wednesday....

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Police were searching for a trauma surgeon Wednesday as a "person of interest" in a fatal shooting at a Buffalo hospital, and warned the public that the former Army Special Forces weapons expert may be armed and dangerous....

HOUSTON (AP) -- A retired Houston-area firefighter was convicted of murder Wednesday for gunning down his unarmed neighbor during a dispute over a noisy house party, with jurors rejecting his argument that he was within his rights under Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia has created the world's largest network of marine reserves and will restrict fishing and oil and gas exploration in a major step to safeguard the environment and access to food....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia has created the world's largest network of marine reserves and will restrict fishing and oil and gas exploration in a major step to safeguard the environment and access to food....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A combination of decades of vigorous fire suppression and the waning of the timber industry over environmental concerns has left many forests a tangled, overgrown mess, subject to the kind of super-fires that are now regularly consuming hundreds of homes and millions of acres....