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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lashes out at Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lashed out at Germany's chancellor on Sunday, suggesting her party shares the political ideals of Adolf Hitler. Chavez criticized Angela Merkel...
Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles
WASHINGTON - U-S Democatic presidential contender Barack Obama turned his focus to the expected presidential contest against Republican John McCain Sunday, but Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to keep her...
American families will make case for a vaccine link to autism in children
WASHINGTON - Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court. They seek vindicat...
Over 20 dead in Mo., Okla., Ga. after new round of storms
PICHER, Okla. - Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region a day earlier and killed at least 21 people in three...
At least 11 dead after overloaded Haitian ferry sinks off southern coast
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U-N and Haitian authorities say an overloaded ferry has sunk off the Caribbean country's southern coast, killing at least 11 people. A U-N peacekeeping mission official says...
Prosecutor agrees to drop death penalty to get suspect back
EASLEY, S.C. - Pickens County's chief prosecutor says he made a deal with Canadian authorities not to seek the death penalty so he could get a suspect returned to the state to stand trial on a murder ...
From jail to a job: One mother's quest to keep her baby
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Raechelle Romero was always running from something, starting at 15: from tough relationships with her dad and stepmother, foster homes, abusive boyfriends. Eventually, the troub...
Boat carrying aid for Myanmar cyclone victims sinks
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first internati...
Lebanese fear all-out war, but hope for political compromise
BEIRUT - Lebanon hung between fears of all-out civil war and hopes of political compromise Sunday even as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine-guns in the mountains ove...
Zimbabwe election official says delay likely in presidential run-off vote
HARARE, Zimbabwe - The presidential run-off election pitting President Robert Mugabe against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not take place in the next few weeks as required by law, the head ...
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