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GHULAM ALI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Sergeant Chris Padron, a thick-set former cop from Texas turned police trainer in Afghanistan, fixed the group of earnest Afghan policemen with a hard stare and delivered his next question.
YINGXIU, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's earthquake could soar to more than 50,000, state media reported on Thursday, as rescuers struggled to help survivors and hope faded for thousands buried under rubble.
CULIACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen threw grenades and opened fire on a police station in Mexico's Sinaloa state on Wednesday, just hours after the government sent thousands of troops to fight a powerful drug cartel there.
LA JOLLA, California (Reuters) - The United States accused unnamed members of Venezuela's left-wing government on Wednesday of conspiring against neighboring Colombia by supporting Marxist guerrillas.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed and sent to the Senate a $289 billion, five-year farm bill that expands nutrition and biofuel programs in the face of President George W. Bush's promise to veto it.
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled on Wednesday a revised $144.35 billion budget plan for the state's next fiscal year that proposes using state lottery revenues to back bonds whose proceeds would help close a $17.2 billion shortfall and build a rainy-day reserve.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, stung by a third election defeat in as many months, scrambled on Wednesday to regain the confidence of voters as well as some of their own members.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who led investigations into companies blamed for the state's subprime mortgage mess, resigned under a cloud on Wednesday after admitting to an affair with a female staff member.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Clement, who defended President George W. Bush's policies restricting the legal rights of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners, is resigning as the administration's top lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
NARAL apparently believes Barack Obama is more pro-abortion than Hillary Clinton, and has awarded its presidential endorsement to the Illinois senator.
Similar U.K. and U.S. studies on the use of anti-psychotics on children are raising questions about whether youth from both countries are being over-treated.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain's wife, Cindy, has sold more than $2 million in mutual funds with investments in companies that do business in Sudan, McCain's campaign said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives committee voted on Wednesday to withhold over half of about $720 million sought by the Bush administration to start building missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Pro-family leaders have wrapped up what is being called a "productive" meeting with officials of Marriott International.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The United Nations is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo committed sexual abuses, which aid workers said involved paying children for sex.
"Terminal sedation" is legal -- and it's being used to circumvent bans on doctor-assisted suicide, according to a group that monitors euthanasia practices.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The government on Wednesday declared the evacuated Chilean town of Chaiten off-limits for three months until it is no longer threatened by a cloud of hot ash from an erupting volcano.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least one missile suspected to have been fired by a U.S. drone hit a house in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border on Wednesday, a Pakistani security official said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States protested to Zimbabwe's government on Wednesday over the "harassment" of the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats there and criticized Harare's lengthy buildup to a runoff presidential election.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should probe Countrywide Financial Corp's practices involving how it handled borrowers entering bankruptcy, Sen. Charles Schumer said on Wednesday.
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