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Nation & World

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April 19, 2010

Godfather of Cuban tobacco, Alejandro Robaina, dies at 91

He took up cigars when he began working the family fields at age 10 and smoked for 81 years.
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April 19, 2010

For Iceland’s animals, risk is on the ground

SKOGAR, Iceland – In Europe, the volcanic ash danger travels at high altitudes, but for Iceland’s farmers the problem is very much on the ground. Farmers across the region where the volcano erupted last week under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier have been scrambling to protect their herds from inhaling or ingesting the ash, which can cause […]
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April 19, 2010

Afghan fighting kills 29 Taliban

KABUL – At least 29 militants, including two commanders, have been killed over four days of intense fighting aimed at protecting supply routes through northern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. Elsewhere, a foreign soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO said, the third foreign death that day following […]
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April 19, 2010

Grounded jets creating widespread losses

Flowers and vegetables can't move out of Nairobi; auto factories in China can't get German parts.
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April 19, 2010

NATO plan fails to faze insurgents

The Taliban say if pressure grows too great, they will leave Kandahar and return after foreign forces leave.

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April 19, 2010

World Dispatches

BANGKOK Troops move in to protect Bangkok Bank headquarters Thai troops armed with assault rifles moved into Bangkok’s central business district this morning to stop thousands of anti-government protesters and threatening to march down the capital’s “Wall Street.” The government had earlier declared Silom Road, a thoroughfare studded with bank headquarters and office buildings, off-limits […]
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April 19, 2010

Tehran forum urges Israel to give up nukes

TEHRAN, Iran — A two-day Iranian-hosted international disarmament conference concluded Sunday with a demand that Israel join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to assure a nuclear weapons-free Middle East. The conference followed closely behind a 47-nation nuclear security conference hosted by President Obama in Washington last week, which excluded Iran and nuclear-armed North Korea. Washington and […]
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April 18, 2010

Obama warns of deja-vu crises without financial system reform

Senate Republicans are united in opposing an overhaul. The president says it has to happen.
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April 18, 2010

Nation & World Dispatches

VERSAILLES, Ky. Police catch Mafia fugitive with Massachusetts ties Authorities say they’ve caught a Mafia-affiliated fugitive who spent two days on the run after kicking out the door of a prison van in Kentucky. U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Craig Smith said 37-year-old Derek A. Capozzi was captured without incident Saturday afternoon. Capozzi escaped from custody […]
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April 18, 2010

Derivatives: What they are, why they matter

The over-the-counter kind significantly contributed to the financial panic that swept the world in 2008, in part because of a lack of transparency.