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Former US president George W. Bush visits Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Former US president George W. Bush visited Haiti and praised the quake-ravaged countrys progress, but acknowledged much remained to be done.
Bush paid a brief visit to the country to inspect projects being funded by the Clinton Bu....
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Libyan jet with 104 crashes; boy sole survivor
TRIPOLI, Libya – A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline's brightly colored logo. A 10-....
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9 killed in latest attack at China school
BEIJING – An attacker with a cleaver hacked to death seven children and two adults at a kindergarten in northwest China on Wednesday, the latest in a string of savage assaults on the country's schools. Eleven other children were wounded.
The killer....
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Quake in western China kills 400, buries more
BEIJING – A series of strong earthquakes struck a mountainous Tibetan area of western China on Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring more than 10,000 as houses made of mud and wood collapsed, officials said. Many more people were trap....
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Canada sending nuclear materials back to U.S.
WASHINGTON – Canada will return spent nuclear fuel to its supplier, the United States, as part of a global drive to secure fissile materials, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday.
A "significant quantity" of used highly enriched u....
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Vatican under fire for linking gays to pedophilia
VATICAN CITY – Gay groups and politicians condemned Pope Benedict's number two on Wednesday for calling homosexuality a "pathology" and linking it directly to sexual abuse of children.
The comments made by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone during a visit ....
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Rain resumes in Rio, officials fear more deaths
RIO DE JANEIRO – Rains pelted Rio again on Wednesday, a day after the heaviest deluge on record sent killer mudslides cascading down hillsides and turned streets into raging torrents in Brazil's second-biggest city.
The death toll increased to 100....
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Boston man gets 8 years' hard labor in North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea sentenced a Boston man to eight years of hard labor and ordered him to pay a $700,000 fine for crossing into the communist country illegally earlier this year, state media reported Wednesday.
Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 3....
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COSAS DIFICILES DE CREER EN UN MUNDO RARO
Operan con éxito a niño de 31 dedos
Los médicos aseguraron que la extraña condición del menor se debe a un gen que causó una mutación
Shenyang, Liaoning, China.- Un niño chino de 6 años con 15 dedos en las manos y 16 en los pies se sometió ayer ....
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Burial chamber of ancient Egyptian queen unearthed
CAIRO – French archaeologists have unearthed the burial chamber of a mysterious queen from Egypt's Old Kingdom more than 4,000 years ago.
The necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo, famed for its massive step pyramid, has yielded a string of discoveri....
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