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Devils Lake outlet not running
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. - Low flows in the Sheyenne River are preventing operation of the Devils Lake water outlet. Assistant State Engineer Todd Sando says the floodwater diversion project has not run s...
Gaza rocket hits Israeli city of Ashkelon; at least 14 hurt
JERUSALEM - A rocket fired from Gaza has exploded in a shopping centre in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, wounding at least 14 people. Israeli officials say two women and one girl have been ...
Red Cross estimates death toll in Myanmar cyclone may be as high as 127,990
YANGON, Myanmar - The International Red Cross says the death toll in the cyclone that hit Myanmar is well over 65,000 and could be double that. The Red Cross says it arrived at its estimate by comp...
Gaza rocket hits Israeli city of Ashkelon; at least three hurt
JERUSALEM - A rocket fired from Gaza has exploded in a shopping centre in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Israeli officials say at least three people have been wounded and two are trapped un...
China says troops rushing to plug 'extremely dangerous' cracks in dam
HANWANG, China - Thousands of Chinese soldiers rushed Wednesday to repair a dam badly cracked by the country's massive earthquake, while rescuers arrived for the first time in the epicentre of the dis...
Fla. police arrest man suspect of arson in wildfires that have destroyed 40 homes
PALM BAY, Fla. - Police in Florida have arrested a man suspected of arson in connection with wildfires that have destroyed at least 40 homes. Doug Muldon, the deputy police chief in Palm Bay, says ...
Car bomb kills policeman in northern Spain; Basque separatists blamed
LEGUTIANO, Spain - A powerful car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA has killed one Spanish policeman and wounded four others. The blast occurred outside a barracks in the Basque villag...
Woman pleads guilty to booking clients in Spitzer prostitution probe
NEW YORK - A woman accused of booking clients for a prostitution ring has pleaded guilty in the federal probe that brought down former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Temeka Rachelle Lewis pleaded...
American athletes learn what's right and wrong in China
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Slurping and burping at the dinner table is OK. Always use both hands to present somebody a business card. And as for those public toilets (or lack thereof), make sure you br...
Iranian leader says anniversary celebrations won't save Israeli from collapse
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations are just the last gasp of a dying state. Iran does not recognize Israel and the Iranian leader has r...
Thousands of displace Kenyans being rousted from refugee camps
NAIROBI, Kenya - Thousands of Kenyans displaced in post-election violence are being forced to leave a large refugee camp in the western town of Kitale. Residents and an international aid worker say...
Death toll in China's earthquake nears 15,000, thouands more missing
HANWANG, China - Relief supplies began reaching flattened villages at the epicentre of this week's powerful earthquake in China for the first time Wednesday as rescuers searched for tens of thousands ...
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown ponders reality TV offer
LONDON - Bruised at the ballot box and savaged by critics, Britain's beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown plotted a political comeback Wednesday - armed with a raft of new policies and pondering a ...
Austrian man kills 5 family members to spare them shame of his financial ruin
VIENNA, Austria - Austrian police discovered the bodies of five people Wednesday after a man turned up at a Vienna police station saying he killed his family to spare them the shame of his financial r...
Afghan army commander in Kandahar asks Kabul for extra troops
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The commander of Afghan army troops in Kandahar has asked his country's Defence Ministry to send two more battalions of soldiers to the troubled southern province. Brig.-Gen...
Bush lauds democratic, prosperous Israel as a model for the Middle East
JERUSALEM - President George W. Bush say 60 years of democracy in Israel is cause for optimism throughout the Middle East. Speaking today at the start of his trip to the Middle East, Bush said what...
U.S. President George W. Bush opens Mideast trip to mark Israel's anniversary
TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. President George W. Bush has opened a celebratory visit to Israel where he'll make a new push for peace in the long-troubled Middle East. The president arrived in Tel Aviv a...
Military: Gunmen in Nigeria hijack boat with 11 crew onboard
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - The military says gunmen in Nigeria's southern oil region have hijacked an oil-services vessel with 11 crew members onboard. Military spokesman Maj. Sagir Musa says the unk...
China begins airlift to remote, quake-hit villages; reports thousands more deaths
AN XIAN, China - Military helicopters dropped food and medicine to Chinese earthquake survivors who remained cut off Wednesday in remote mountain villages, while a jump in deaths pushed the toll close...
China begins airlift to remote villages in quake zone; reports 20,000 deaths
MIANYANG, China - China began airlifting aid Wednesday to the areas worst hit by a massive earthquake, while reporting a huge jump in deaths certain to push the death toll close to 20,000 - including ...
UN says relief efforts in Myanmar should reach scale of Indian Ocean tsunami
YANGON, Myanmar - The UN says another cyclone in forming near Myanmar, which was devastated by a killer storm earlier this month. UN spokeswoman Amanda Pitts couldn't say where the landfall would b...
String of bombings hit ancient Indian city, killing at least 80, police say
JAIPUR, India - A series of bombs exploded across this ancient city, killing at least 80 people and transforming busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Hindu temple into scenes of carnage, police said W...
Clinton scores landslide in West Virginia, but doesn't change Obama's lead
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton scored an expected landslide Tuesday in West Virginia that did little to break Barack Obama's hold on the Democratic nomination but emphasized concerns about his ability t...
Clinton scores landslide in West Virginia, but it doesn't change Obama's lead
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton scored an expected landslide Tuesday in West Virginia that did little to break Barack Obama's hold on the Democratic nomination but emphasized concerns he can win over wor...
At least eight killed, 16 injured in a train collision in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A spokesman says eight people have been killed in a collision between two trains in eastern Bangladesh. Bangladesh Railway spokesman Shafiqul Alam Khan said an additional 16 peo...
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