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KATHMANDU, Nepal – A Nepalese mountaineering official says a Finnish climber and his local guide died while descending from the summit of Mount Annapurna in the first casualties of the mountaineering season in the Himalayan nation. Gyanendra Shrestha said attempts were being made to bring the bodies of Samuli Mansikka …

CAIRO – Egypt and Saudi Arabia are cooperating militarily to thwart a power grab in Yemen by Shiite rebels, but the agreement on how to deal with the region’s complex and intertwined conflicts may stop there. The two countries’ diverging interests were evident at the Arab summit over the weekend, …

KINSHASA, Congo – Economists from around the globe are gathering in Congo for a forum on boosting economic growth in the African country as large as Western Europe. Congo has some of the largest mineral deposits in the world yet, according to the United Nations, at least 63 percent of …