NAIROBI, Kenya — Seventeen people were feared dead in eastern Congo after a small plane carrying United Nations employees and other aid workers slammed into a mountainside, United Nations officials said on Tuesday. The plane disappeared during a fierce thunderstorm...

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TOKYO — Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan abruptly announced his resignation on Monday, ending a short-lived and unpopular government marred by political paralysis. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced his resignation at a news conference at his official residence in...

ST. PAUL — Plans for the Republican National Convention were in flux on Sunday as the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain , announced that the thrust of the convention would change “from a party event to a call to...