Thousands of demonstrators in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara demand an end to the drug-related violence which has been on the rise in the city.

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Mexicans march for more security

Director James Cameron made it to the London premier of the new, 3D version of Titanic, after returning from his deep ocean dive in the western Pacific.

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UK scientists use radar satellites to measure a huge dome of fresh water that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean.

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Arctic freshwater bulge detected

UK scientists use radar satellites to measure a huge dome of fresh water that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean.

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Arctic freshwater bulge detected

In the accounting of what was won and lost in America’s Iraq war, this sleepy farming town deep in the western desert will rank as a place where almost everything was lost. It was here, on Nov. 19, 2005 , that a group of Marines went on a shooting spree in which 24 Iraqi civilians were killed. Their patrol had been hit by a roadside bomb and one of their comrades was dead. They ordered five men out of a taxi and gunned them down. Then they went into three nearby homes and shot 19 people, including 11 women and children. Read full article > >

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Civilian killings created insurmountable hurdle to extended U.S. troop presence in Iraq

Sky watchers in the western part of the United States, Australia and parts of Asia will have the best view of a total lunar eclipse early Saturday morning.

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U.S. West Coast to get best view of lunar eclipse

After months in hiding, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi was finally tracked down in Libya's southern desert by fighters from the western Zintan mountains.

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Who is Saif al-Islam Gadhafi?

TOKYO — Nine people who say they are from North Korea arrived Tuesday in a black wooden boat off the western Japanese coast in what authorities suspect is a rare defection from the communist nation to Japan. A fisherman contacted authorities after spotting the unfamiliar vessel in waters near the Noto peninsula, which juts into the Sea of Japan. Read full article > >

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Japan’s coast guard finds boat in western waters carrying 9 possible North Korean defectors

ZINTAN, Libya — Five loud explosions shook the center of Libya’s capital Thursday afternoon, possibly striking near Moammar Gadhafi’s compound in Tripoli, as rebels in the western mountains claimed control of the Zawiya oil refinery. The thunderous blasts rattled a hotel where journalists stay in Tripoli. Gadhafi’s compound is near the hotel and a frequent target of air raids. NATO jets flew overhead minutes after the blasts. It wasn’t immediately clear what was hit or if there were civilian casualties. Read full article > >

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Explosions shake Libyan capital as rebels advance in the western mountains around Tripoli

Libyan rebels took control of an oil refinery in the western town of Zawiyah and blocked the main highway north to the capital on Thursday, further isolating Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli stronghold.

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At least 14 people are killed when a roadside bomb hits a crowded minibus in the western Afghan province of Herat, officials say.

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Afghan roadside bomb ‘kills 14′

Seated in a room of the attorney general’s office in the western Mexico state of Jalisco, a woman waits to be reunited with her 13-year-old daughter. Two weeks before, the girl had run away from home.

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Teen says she worked for drug cartel

At least five people die after twin blasts hit the western Afghan city of Herat, including at an Italian-led reconstruction base.

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Five killed in twin Afghan blasts

A home-made armoured vehicle believed to belong to a drug gang is seized in the western Mexican state of Jalisco.

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Mexico police seize ‘narco-tank’

Biologists said that the seal, lying on the sand at the western end of Dyckman Street, would return to the water on its own.

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