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BAGHDAD – The Iraqi prime minister’s coalition will talk to other parties about sharing power in mostly southern areas after initial projections showed the Shiite leader’s allies were the big winners in last weekend’s provincial elections, an Iraqi lawmaker said Wednesday. The early results show Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s allies …

HONG KONG – Experts on Friday urged governments on Friday to diversify their stockpiles of drugs and called for more new medicines to fight what could be the world’s next flu pandemic caused by the H5N1 bird flu virus. Many advanced countries stock up on oseltamivir and zanamivir, two varieties …

CAIRO – Nazi hunters urged Egypt on Friday to come clean about how much it knew about a fugitive dubbed “Dr. Death,” who reportedly lived here for decades until he died in 1992. But Egypt has long kept a strict silence about former Nazis reported to have taken refuge on …