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WASHINGTON (CMC)The US Supreme Court has declined to block the deportation of thousands of Caribbean and other immigrants who, over two years ago, were not warned by their lawyers that, when they pleaded guilty to serious crimes, they would be targeted...

Firefighters are still battling the blaze that destroyed three houses in Quinta Normal, which is near Santiago.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP):The nation's largest Protestant group is calling on members of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America to uphold a ban on gay scouts and leaders when it votes in May.The executive committee of the 16-million member...

SAN JUAN (AP):Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has narrowly voted to uphold a law banning gay couples from adopting children.Yesterday's 5-4 vote comes in the case of an unidentified woman who sought to adopt a child...

ST GEORGE'S (AP):The eastern Caribbean island of Grenada is holding parliamentary elections for the first time in nearly five years as it struggles to emerge from an economic crisis.Prime Minister Tillman Thomas of the National Democratic Congress...

WASHINGTON (AP) :Staking out his ground ahead of a fiscal deadline, President Barack Obama lashed out against Republicans, saying they are unwilling to raise taxes to reduce deficits and warning that the jobs of essential...

Yemeni officials say the plane was on a training flight when it crashed.

NEW YORK (CMC): Police and relatives here say that a Guyanese man on Sunday went berserk, killing his compatriot church-going wife with a kitchen knife, nearly decapitating her.

SALEM (AP) A bill allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Oregon universities has cleared its first legislative hurdle.A House committee approved the measure yesterday, sending it to a vote in the full House.Oregon requires university...

LONDON (AP):BBC journalists walked off the job yesterday in a 24-hour strike to protest job cuts at the broadcaster.Staff mounted picket lines outside of the BBC's studios in central London and around the country.

Police said two men — ages 64 and 42 — were arrested at Farmbox Meats near Aberystwyth, in Wales, while a 63-year-old man was arrested at the Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

KANO, Nigeria (AP):Police in northern Nigeria arrested and charged two radio journalists and a local cleric alleged to have sparked the killings of at least nine women gunned down while trying to administer polio vaccines, officials said yesterday.