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UNITED NATIONS – The world’s nuclear tensions, distilled into words on paper, threatened on Wednesday to wreck a conference to strengthen the nonproliferation treaty, as diplomats labored on into the monthlong meeting’s final days. One of three committees ended its closed-door work with no recommendations to forward, in part because …

LOS ANGELES, Chile – Forty-one soldiers lost in a “snow tsunami” on the peaks of the Andes (search) are “most probably dead,” the army’s top commander said Friday as survivors spoke tearfully of leaving behind comrades too exhausted to make it out of the blizzard. The soldiers — 40 young …

WASHINGTON – Zacarias Moussaoui (search) will face the penalty phase of his terrorism case starting next Jan. 9 when jury selection will begin, a federal judge decided Friday, approving a schedule proposed this week by prosecutors and Moussaoui’s lawyers. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema also approved Feb. 6 as the …