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Junie Sufrad, 110, with other residents of a nursing home in Léogâne, Haiti. LÉOGÂNE, Haiti — Junie Sufrad, 110 years old, stopped suddenly as she described what life was like in the Haitian countryside before electricity, paved roads and cars.

SANTIAGO, March 11 (Xinhua) - The Chilean government lifted the tsunami alert in the center-south coast of the country after ruling out the presence of high waves which could be produced by the 7.2-magnitude on Thursday, Deputy Interior Minister Rodrigo

Security forces have been given additional powers Thailand has mobilised about 40,000 security personnel ahead of mass rallies by 'red shirt' opposition protesters over the coming days. The demonstrators plan to meet around the country before converging

WASHINGTON Jolted by a sudden tightening of the rules, lobbyists and military contractors who have long relied on lucrative earmarks from Congress were scrambling Thursday to find new ways to keep the federal money flowing. Representative Jeff Flake,

A depraved man said to believe that only he and his offspring would survive the end of the world is to go on trial charged with fathering six children with his own daughters. Aswad Ayinde, 51, who describes himself as a film-maker and soft-drink

Soldiers raided an apartment complex and killed one of Mexico’s top kingpins in a two-hour gun battle on Wednesday in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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WASHINGTON The chairmen of the Senate and House education committees said on Thursday that they would fight to attach President Obama’s proposed overhaul of student lending programs to the budget reconciliation package, which will include final

The US government has condemned as 'a mockery' new election laws in Myanmar effectively barring , the country's opposition leader, from standing in national polls expected later this year. The laws banning any candidate with a court conviction deal a

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Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, accompanied by his wife, Cecilia Morel, during his inauguration ceremony at the Congress in Valparaiso on Thursday. SANTIAGO, Chile The new Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera, had not even taken office on Thursday

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ATHENS, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A general strike starting from Wednesday midnight in protest of the government's new austerity measures crippled the Greek capital Thursday. The 24-hour strike, the latest in a series of protests called by two biggest trade

Mr Morley, Mr Chaytor, Mr Devine and Lord Hanningfield deny the charges Three MPs and a peer have pleaded not guilty in court to charges related to their expenses claims. Jim Devine, Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Lord Hanningfield all told Westminster

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Officials counted parliamentary election ballots in Baghdad on Thursday. BAGHDAD Setting the stage for intense political maneuvering in the weeks to come, early results in Iraq’s parliamentary elections on Thursday indicated that Prime Minister Nuri

AN AUSTRALIAN arrested and held for nearly three weeks for organising a protest against the Copenhagen climate change conference has been charged with offences commonly used in terrorism cases. Natasha Verco - who faces up to 12 years in prison if

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Men detained by police, in the wake of religious violence in Jos, Nigeria, sat in a police waiting room on Wednesday. JOS, Nigeria — Dispassionately, the baby-faced young man recounted his killings: two women and one man, first beaten senseless with a

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Filmgoers in Barcelona waited under a poster for “Precious,” which advertised that it was showing with “exclusive Catalan subtitles.” BARCELONA, Spain — Here in the principal city of Catalonia, the native language, Catalan, is heard just about

Filmgoers in Barcelona waited under a poster for “Precious,” which advertised that it was showing with “exclusive Catalan subtitles.” BARCELONA, Spain — Here in the principal city of Catalonia, the native language, Catalan, is heard just about

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Protesters clashed with police at demonstrations at the beginning of this month [AFP] Protesters plan to bring Greece to a standstill, with public workers and private unions holding a strike. They are striking for the second time in two weeks on

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