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May 14, 2008 5:53 PM: MEXICO CITY (AP) - Officials say two police officers were shot and killed in northern Mexico when they tried to stop gunmen from kidnapping a family.
State prosecutor Carlos Centeno says the attackers also threw grenades Wednesday at the officers in the city of Torreon. Torreon is in Coahuila state, which borders Texas.
In a separate attack, assailants opened fire and threw grenades at a police station in Guamuchil in the northern state of Sinaloa. No one was injured.
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May 14, 2008 5:48 PM: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Two prominent surrogates of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stumped for the candidates Wednesday in this U.S. island territory, which has 55 delegates at stake in its June 1 Democratic primary.
Michelle Obama toured the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan on behalf of her husband, who remains locked in a marathon fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. More»
May 14, 2008 5:47 PM: Chicago Tribune
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JERUSALEM - As part of a late-term press for an elusive peace, President George W. Bush returned to the Mideast on Wednesday but was greeted by a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli shopping center and a warning by Israeli leaders that they may deploy ''the military power that Israel has in its pocket to use in a serious manner.''
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May 14, 2008 5:38 PM: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A delegation of U.S. newspaper editors is meeting with government officials and others in Venezuela this week to learn more about how to handle news from the South American country.
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May 14, 2008 5:33 PM: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Pentagon official said Wednesday he will not resign as legal adviser to war-crimes tribunals at Guantanamo, despite his removal from the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver because of a lack of impartiality.
But Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann left open the possibility that he could step aside if questions about his neutrality bog down other cases.
''I am the legal adviser today. More»
May 14, 2008 5:31 PM: CHINA-EARTHQUAKE:TB-
The survivors surged into every available space: on top of flattened ping-pong tables, inside an abandoned boxing ring, between treadmills - any place they could find in a sports stadium that has become a settlement for the displaced in one of Sichuan's hardest-hit cities.
Even before China has fully tallied the dead, it faces the massive task of sustaining the living. And the Jiu Zhou Sports Stadium in Mianyang, east of the Monday earthquake's epicenter, More»
May 14, 2008 5:27 PM: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday he will try to re-establish contacts with Colombian rebels in an attempt to win freedom for more hostages held by the guerrillas.
Chavez said he spoke by phone with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and offered to ''try to make contact'' with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Sarkozy's campaign to free French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt so far has been unsuccessful.
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May 14, 2008 5:12 PM: BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombian police seized US$25 million (euro16 million) in properties Wednesday from a paramilitary warlord extradited to the U.S. on drug-trafficking charges.
Authorities occupied luxury ranches, farms and plots of land that warlord Salvatore Mancuso owned across much of northwest Colombia, police said in a statement.
Mancuso was one of 14 paramilitary leaders extradited Tuesday to the U.S., which has filed charges including cocaine trafficking, More»
May 14, 2008 5:04 PM: MOSCOW (AP) - An unmanned Russian cargo ship blasted off Thursday with supplies, equipment and gifts for the international space station, an official said.
Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said the ship is carrying about 2.5 short tons of oxygen, water and food for the crew - U.S. astronaut Garrett Reisman and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko.
Lyndin said Progress M-64 lifted off as scheduled early Thursday morning from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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May 14, 2008 4:44 PM: KHAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suspected missile strike late Wednesday destroyed a house and killed about a dozen people in a Pakistan border village that was targeted by the U.S. military two years ago in the hunt for al-Qaida's No. 2 leader.
Residents said at least two explosions rocked Damadola village, in the Bajur tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, around 8 p.m. More»
May 14, 2008 4:42 PM: LONDON (AP) - Beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown won a rare cheer from his own ranks after unveiling a raft of new policies Wednesday, part of move to reinvigorate his tenure that could also include appearing on a reality TV show.
In a speech to Parliament previewing his legislative program for next year, Brown outlined plans for greater customer protection when banks fail, an increased number of apprenticeships in Britain, and an offer of better working rights for temporary workers. More»
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