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Especially grim year for encephalitis feared in northern India as poverty, politics take toll
GORAKHPUR, India - A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade....
Brazil: Protesters angry with poor services and high taxes keep up pressure at Sao Paulo march
SAO PAULO - Thousands of demonstrators flooded a square in Brazil's economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday evening for the latest in a historic wave of protests against the shoddy state of public transit, schools and other public services in...
US, Taliban agree to hold talks on ending war in Afghanistan; Obama says process won't be easy
KABUL - The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the international coalition formally handed over control of the country's security to...
AP sources: 4 US troops killed in Afghanistan at or near Bagram Air Base
WASHINGTON - Defence officials say four U.S. troops have been killed at or near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan....
I-5 Skagit River bridge to reopen Wednesday, less than a month after collapse
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - A temporary bridge over the Skagit River will reopen Wednesday, restoring Interstate 5 traffic less than a month after the old bridge collapsed....
Hungary accuses ex-Canadian citizen, 98, of Nazi-era war crimes against Jews
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old former police officer, who was stripped of his Canadian citizenship, with torturing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps....
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