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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP): The sole survivor of a plane crash in Bolivia stayed alive by eating insects, drinking his own urine and painting an arrow in the ground with his blood to show rescuers where he was, according to an interview published...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said Saturday that he's confident he is overcoming cancer and that his hair should grow back in the coming months as he finishes chemotherapy....

Egyptian protesters entered the Israeli Embassy in Cairo yesterday.

PENNSYLVANNIA (AP):Nearly 100,000 people from New York to Maryland were ordered to flee the rising Susquehanna River yesterday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain across the Northeast, closing major highways and soaking areas still...

YAROSLAVL, Russia (AP) — President Dmitry Medvedev called for immediate changes in Russia's troubled aviation industry Thursday — including sharply reducing the number of airlines — as the country mourned a crash that killed 43 people and devastated a top

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Foreign ministers and defense chiefs from the Latin American countries that have more than 12,000 peacekeepers in Haiti called a meeting Thursday to consider how the alleged sex abuse of a Haitian teenager by Uruguayan sailors m

OHIO (AP):Ministers will honour emergency responders in Sunday services and, in some cases, bless their vehicles, as Ohioans commemorate the September 11 terror attacks at religious services, prayer gatherings, football games and with a corn maze....

BANGKOK (AP):Thai authorities have arrested two men who tried to smuggle 120 dogs to Vietnam to be sold for human consumption, police disclosed yesterday.Acting on a tip, local officials and police officers stopped two pickup trucks carrying the dogs...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP):A federal appeals court says same-sex partners of Arizona government workers are entitled to the same health-care benefits provided to opposite-sex couples.The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the blocking of a state...

US President Barack Obama has promised federal aid to east coast areas struck by Hurricane Irene.

At least 19 people have been killed and more than 50 are missing after powerful Typhoon ripped through western Japan.

MADRID (AP):One of Spain's largest media groups says Cuba has revoked the accreditation of its long-time correspondent on the Caribbean island for alleged bias and negative reporting, the latest in a series of steps by the communist government targeting...