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Soldiers called in to replace striking cops

SALVADOR (AP): As many as 300 striking police officers and their relatives held out yesterday as heavily armed soldiers blockaded a state legislature building in northeastern Brazil....

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Military base bombed

LAGOS (AP): Bombs exploded yesterday at two major military bases on the outskirts of a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa's most populous nation, injuring an unknown number of people....

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Health authorities investigate deaths of 11 newborns

CARACAS (AP): Venezuelan health authorities are investigating the deaths of 11 newborns within four days at a single public hospital. Regional health officer Angel Melchor says the babies died from Thursday to Sunday...

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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...