'Rioters' kill 16 policemen
BEIJING (AP): Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed explosives into their barracks yesterday, killing 16 officers and wounding others in China's restive Central Asian border province, the state-run Xinhua ...
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
MOSCOW (AP): Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed and chronicled the vast network of Stalin's slave labour camps, has died of heart failure at age 89, his family said...
Clinton says nutrition key in AIDS fight
DAKAR, Senegal (AP):Former United States presi-dent, Bill Clinton, said on Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending...
Bush signs bill to settle Libyan lawsuits
WASHINGTON, DC (AP): President George W. Bush signed legislation yesterday that allows the State Department to settle all remaining lawsuits against Libya by United States terrorism victims and paves the way...
Brazil Courts, military question Amazon land policy
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP):Deep in the northernmost reaches of the Amazon jungle, a land conflict between rice farmers and a handful of Indian tribes has turned so violent that the country's Supreme Court...
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