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US, UK 'stand against' Assad

beirut (AP): The United States (US) closed its Syrian embassy and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus yesterday, in a dramatic new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power...

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Hantavirus outbreak sends nation into high alert

SANTIAGO, (AP):Chile declared a public-health alert yesterday over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others.Health Minister Jaime Manalich said wildfires in the southern Bio Bio and Araucania regions have driven...

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Tears, neatly dug graves at bombed church

MADALLA, Nigeria (AP):A Catholic church in Nigeria still in mourning after a Christmas Day bombing by a radical Islamist sect buried its dead amid wails of grief and under the watch of security agencies that still fear more violence.Neatly dug graves...

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Oil line on fire; militants claim attack

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP):An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, its first alleged assault in months as its purported leader awaits trial on terrorism charges in South...