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Former Republican North Carolilna Senator Jesse Helms dies at 86
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Senator Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative yea...
Uprooted by war German division, US Embassy returns to its Berlin address
BERLIN - Fourth of July fireworks over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate are to mark the official homecoming of the U.S. Embassy in Germany to its pre-Second World War address on Friday. Former U....
Race for Trent Lott's old seat in Mississippi competitive
BILOXI, Miss. - Roger Wicker leaned up against the rails of the oyster schooner Mike Sekul, enjoying the slight Mississippi Sound breeze and some scrumptious, bone-sucking ribs with his son McDaniel. ...
Wildfire chases July 4th visitors from California's famed Big Sur region
BIG SUR, Calif. - Independence Day is normally a booming time for tourism here, with visitors settling into cliffside vacation homes or trekking out to campgrounds nestled among the redwoods. But t...
On a continent where despotism is rife, few willing to cast a stone at Mugabe
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. The list of candidates for the title "least democratic in Africa" is not confined to Zimbabwe. While Robert Mugabe has been si...
Indigenous peoples blame G-8 for global warming and unhappy at Canada
SAPPORO, Japan - A gathering of indigenous peoples on Friday blamed the Group of Eight's economic agenda for global warming and rising food and fuel prices - the very problems the G-8 leaders plan to ...
Police say that two public notaries were killed near Russian capital
MOSCOW - Russian investigators say two top public notaries for the Moscow region have been shot dead near the capital. A spokesman for the general-prosecutor office's investigative staff, Vladimir ...
Warehouse fire prompts evacuations in Ohio community west of Cleveland
ELYRIA, Ohio - A raging fire at a warehouse in Ohio forced about two dozen residents of nearby homes to flee in the middle of the night. Officials say the evacuation order was issued after fire bro...
France hands over ancient looted pottery to Italy confiscated at border
ROME - Italy's Culture Ministry says France has handed over 50 pieces of pottery dating back to as far as the fourth century B.C. that were looted from southern Italy. The earthenware includes Gree...
Russian billionaire Abramovich permitted to leave his job as governor
MOSCOW - Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has resigned as governor of a remote Arctic region, a position he has held for almost eight years and long wanted to leave. His formal resignation requ...
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