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Land mines wash up on SKorean shores, apparently swept by rains from North; 1 man killed

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:29:26 +0000

SEOUL, South Korea - Dozens of land mines have washed up on South Korean shores in recent days, apparently swept from North Korea by torrential rains. One killed a man and wounded another, the militar...

Coast Guard routinely approved use of toxic chemical to break up Gulf oil despite EPA rule

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:06:49 +0000

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons (litres) of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directi...

Chelsea Clinton marries longtime boyfriend at exclusive estate in upstate New York village

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:06:38 +0000

RHINEBECK, N.Y. - Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend under extraordinary security at an elegant Hudson River estate late Saturday. Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton announced in a sta...

Fire crews gain ground in high desert north of Los Angeles as hills smoulder from 2-day blaze

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:30:35 +0000

PALMDALE, Calif. - A wildfire smouldered in the high desert north of Los Angeles on Saturday, spewing plumes of thick smoke that prompted air quality warnings as hundreds of firefighters worked to con...

Mosque prayer leader wins Malaysia hit reality TV show's search for young Muslim role model

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:15:42 +0000

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An Islamic reality TV show that made its contestants counsel promiscuous teenagers and bury corpses has named a 26-year-old mosque prayer leader as Malaysia's top role model f...

Regrets and defiance aboard government flight that takes illegal immigrants back to Mexico

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:04:15 +0000

CHICAGO - Guillermo Campos Ojeda stares blankly at the clouds from the jetliner's window, mentally retracing the 22 years that he lived in the United States as an illegal immigrant. His odyssey beg...

Document says agency repeatedly told company at heart of Mich. oil spill of pipeline concerns

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:04:13 +0000

DETROIT - U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil i...

Chelsea Clinton marries longtime boyfriendd at exclusive estate in upstate New York village

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:49:13 +0000

Police search for 3 convicted murderers who escaped from US prison, kidnapped truck drivers

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:30:50 +0000

PHOENIX - Police were using helicopters and dogs Saturday to search for three convicted murderers who escaped from a northwest Arizona prison, kidnapped two semi-truck drivers at gunpoint and used the...

Wildfire smoulders in high desert north of Los Angeles as crews work to contain 2-day-old blaze

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:15:56 +0000

PALMDALE, Calif. - A wildfire smouldered in the high desert north of Los Angeles on Saturday, spewing plumes of thick smoke into a nearby town as hundreds of firefighters worked to contain the 2-day-o...

Mexican soldiers find $7 million in cash in slain drug lord's house

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:16:12 +0000

MEXICO CITY - Mexican federal prosecutors say troops who raided a house of a major kingpin killed in a gunbattle with soldiers found $7 million in cash. A statement from the federal Attorney Genera...

Italian group says executions on the rise in Iraq, China still world's top executioner

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:16:03 +0000

ROME - Iraq is now among the world's top executioners for the first time since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, an Italian anti-death penalty group said, reporting that the number of the country's exe...

Rise of independent groups changing Judaism's present, shaping its future

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:16:14 +0000

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - They gather a few blocks from Harvard Square to greet the Sabbath with communal prayer, their eyes winced closed, hands clapping as they sing in fervent Hebrew. The group worships i...

Mexican federal police rescue 2 journalists kidnapped by drug gang

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:36:07 +0000

MEXICO CITY - Federal police rescued two kidnapped news cameramen in northern Mexico on Saturday, five days after they were seized by drug traffickers in a bid to get their employers to broadcast cart...

Federal agency repeatedly told Enbridge to improve pipeline network operations, documents show

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:36:06 +0000

DETROIT - A U.S. agency says it repeatedly warned the Canadian company at the centre of an oil spill in southern Michigan about problems with its pipeline network. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materi...