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April 19, 2010

Don’t trust U.S. government? Join the crowd

WASHINGTON – Can you trust Washington? Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they can’t, and they have little faith that the massive federal bureaucracy can solve the nation’s ills, according to a survey released Sunday by the Pew Research Center that shows public confidence in the federal government at one of the lowest points in […]
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April 19, 2010

Outpouring of appreciation as Polish leader laid to rest

President Lech Kaczynski was never widely popular, but his death may bring Poland closer to Russia.
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April 19, 2010

Hospital got complaint on doctor in 1996

The pediatrician has been accused of molesting more than 100 patients before his arrest last year.
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April 19, 2010

Pontiff meets with abuse victims

He tells eight Maltese men the church will 'implement effective measures' to protect children.
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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 […]