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South American storm causes death, damage
ASUNCION, Paraguay — A powerful storm killed five people and injured 81 in Paraguay as it blew across the southern cone of South America on Wednesday, ripping roofs off ramshackle homes and leaving...
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South Africa: Miners ready to resume work
MARIKANA, South Africa — Lonmin miners celebrated a wage deal Wednesday that ended a deadly and prolonged strike but labor unrest continued with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas at striker...
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Islam extremists showing up on front lines in Syria
TEL RIFAAT, Syria — The bearded gunmen who surrounded the car full of foreign journalists in a northern Syrian village were clearly not Syrians. A heavyset man in a brown gown stepped forward, anno...
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Doubts arise over claim of ‘Jesus’ Wife’ papyrus
ROME — Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic? Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyru...
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Associated Press A French policeman stands guard outside the headquarters of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo Wednesday in Paris. Police took up positions outside the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, which published crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday that ridicule the film and the furor surrounding it.
French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions
PARIS — France stepped up security Wednesday at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly revived a formula that it has already used to capture attention: Publishing cru...
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Associated Press North Korean men stand next to a field damaged by July flooding Aug. 13 in Songchon County, North Korea. Harsh weather has damaged crops, meaning a shortfall of food in the country.
Storms dampen hopes for large North Korean harvest
WONSAN, North Korea — First came an extended dry spell in the spring, followed by a summer of flash floods and typhoons. Now, with North Korean farmers preparing to head out into autumn fields t...
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Prison abuse videos rock Georgia ahead of vote
TBILISI, Georgia — Videos showing the abuse of prisoners in Georgia have sparked street protests and an exchange of harsh accusations between the government and the opposition ahead of parliamentar...
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Drug lord changed look with surgeries
CARACAS, Venezuela — One of Colombia’s most-wanted drug lords changed his appearance through repeated plastic surgeries before he was captured in Venezuela while making a call from a public payphon...
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Russia accuses USAID of trying to sway various political elections
MOSCOW — Russia explained its decision to end the U.S. Agency for International Development’s two decades of work in Russia by saying Wednesday that the agency was using its money to influence elec...
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Associated Press A supporter of opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles holds up a poster that reads in Spanish "Capriles my skinny one, here's your first lady" during a campaign rally Sept. 1 in Montalban, Venezuela. Capriles and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez are waging intense, contrasting campaigns ahead of Venezuela's Oct. 7 election while aiming for swing voters among young Venezuelans under 30, middle-class households and women of all social classes.
Chavez, challenger target youth, women
CARACAS, Venezuela — Presidential candidate Henrique Capriles is mobbed at rallies by ecstatic women who press close to touch him and leave scratches on his arms and neck. Some shout “Marry me!” to...
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