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SALT LAKE CITY (AP): Federal officials say more people in the workforce are claiming discrimination because of their English-speaking ability or foreign accents.

SAN JUAN (AP): Two former police officers have been charged with trying to extort $50,000 from a suspected drug dealer in exchange for help in getting his case dismissed, authorities said on Tuesday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Human Rights Watch has praised a resolution by Brazil's Human Rights Defence Council outlining steps to reduce extrajudicial killings by police.In a statement yesterday, the New York-based organisation says Brazilian police routinely...

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is taking action for BP’s lack of business integrity over the handling of the blowout.

WASHINGTON (AP): Two Senate Republicans yesterday unveiled their version of the Dream Act, stalled legislation that would provide a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, many who have spent most of their lives in the United...

SKOPJE (AP) :Macedonian authorities have seized more than half-a-ton of marijuana in a truck at a border crossing with Albania and arrested the driver.Police said yesterday the 540 kilograms (1,200 pounds) of the...

JOS (AP):An activist says nine people have died in an attack on a Christian village in central Nigeria, a region beset by religious and ethnic tensions.Mark Lipdo, head of the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian advocacy group, said yesterday that...

A police statement said the attack was repelled but that 30 detainees escaped, 25 of whom were later recaptured.

Livingston Marshall, spokesman for the exclusive Baker's Bay Golf and Ocean Club on Great Guana Cay, said the pilot died in the crash.

A number of explosions overnight left parts of the territory without power.

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (AP):Helen Wallbank Milliken, Michigan's longest-serving first lady and a staunch supporter of women's rights and environment issues, has died. She was 89.

WASHINGTON (AP):In his first trip abroad since the summer heat of the re-election campaign, United States President Barack Obama will seek to reinforce American influence in Southeast Asia in spite of the large shadow cast by China.He will become the...