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The senior pastor of Chicago's Moody Church says the natural disasters that have struck places like Myanmar and China are symptoms of a whole world that's under judgment of sin – and not just a swipe by God at any particular sinners.
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Three people, including a former congressman, were shot and killed as violence marred the close of campaigning before Friday's presidential election in the Dominican Republic, authorities said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's military build-up opposite Taiwan is counterproductive and fans pro-independence tendencies on the island, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said on Thursday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President George W. Bush heads for Saudi Arabia on Friday to renew his appeal to help tame record oil prices and try to shore up Arab support for containing Iran's growing regional clout.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate could vote as early as Thursday night on a measure aimed at overturning new, looser media ownership restrictions in the 20 biggest U.S. cities, aides said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to scale back President George W. Bush's plan to aid Mexico in its increasingly deadly war on illegal drug cartels.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Thursday that opens the door to a stronger U.N. presence in Somalia and possible deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives, in a surprise and largely symbolic move, defeated legislation on Thursday to fund the war in Iraq for another year.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The United States will respect Brazil's maritime claims, including offshore oil reserves, and will use a new naval fleet in Latin America mostly for peaceful purposes, the U.S. commander for the region said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reopening the North American Free Trade Agreement to address concerns raised by U.S. Democratic presidential candidates could kill the three-way pact, former Mexican President Carlos Salinas said on Thursday.
Christian attorney Steve Crampton says the California Supreme Court abandoned the rule of law and common sense with its decision today that re-defined marriage.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would get expanded education benefits, while unemployment benefits for jobless Americans would be lengthened under legislation passed on Thursday by the House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives defied President George W. Bush by passing legislation on Thursday that would set the end of 2009 as the goal for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday defeated legislation that would have funded the war in Iraq for another year, in a surprise move that the Senate could overturn.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying two Iranian diplomats in Baghdad on Thursday, wounding them and two other people in the vehicle, an Iranian embassy official said.
The California Supreme Court has ruled that homosexual marriage must be legalized in that state.
Pro-family activist Matt Barber says the California Supreme Court betrayed "We the People" and engaged in the "worst kind of judicial activism" earlier today by overturning the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in March 2000.
IJEGUN, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 100 people were killed and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by a bulldozer caught fire and exploded on Thursday in a village near Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos, the Red Cross said.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian guerrilla computer documents that Bogota says are proof Venezuela and Ecuador supported the Marxist rebels are authentic and show no evidence of tampering, Interpol said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval on Thursday to a $289 billion farm bill that expands programs to help feed poor Americans, and lawmakers said Congress could easily override a presidential veto.
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