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Tropical Storm Hermine strengthens
Mexican authorities urge people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distribute sandbags and warn of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthens and heads toward the coast.
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Soldiers fire on family's car in Mexico, killing 2
 Soldiers opened fire on a family's car at a military checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and his father, authorities and relatives said Monday.
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Lawyer: Iran woman could be stoned to death soon
 The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon.
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Pakistanis suspect landowners of diverting floods
 As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, some believe that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property to inundate the villages and fields of poor Pakistanis.
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Indonesian volcano erupts again
An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early Tuesday — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.
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Death toll 44 in Guatemala mudslides
 Searchers on Monday pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them.
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Lax safety makes Congo river travel dangerous
 In a country with few paved roads, boarding an overcrowded boat on a treacherous river is a way of life. This weekend, journeys on the dangerous waterways stole the lives of up to 270 people.
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Argentines risking all to carry huge wads of cash
 The "marker" lurks inside the bank, looking for people pulling large amounts of cash from a safe deposit box or bank account. The gunmen linger outside, usually on motorcyles, waiting to make their move.
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Unions suspend South African civil service strike
South African civil servants unions are suspending a nationwide strike for higher wages to give members time to consider the government's latest offer, labor leaders said Monday.
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NATO asks for more troops for Afghanistan
 The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan is asking for 2,000 more soldiers to join the 140,000-strong international force here, NATO officials said Monday. It was unclear how many would be Americans.
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Kandahar boardwalk is a world away from war
 It was a broiling fall evening in this southern Afghan battlezone, and U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Reed wanted to celebrate his birthday in style — at T.G.I. Friday's on the boardwalk.
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Afghan foreign troops death toll hits 500 for 2010
The number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year has reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009, according to an independent monitoring site on Monday and a tally compiled by Reuters.
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EU tries to tackle illegal immigration
European ministers on Monday discussed ways to crack down on illegal immigration, block false asylum demands and harmonize EU immigration policy so that one country's solution doesn't become another country's problem.
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Spain unconvinced new Basque truce is credible
 Spain claimed the cease-fire was just another gambit by ETA in order to buy time, regroup and rearm.
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Police: Drunk driver kills 15 at Ecuador bus stop
Police in Ecuador say 15 people were killed and at least seven injured when a drunken man drove an SUV into a crowded bus stop in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
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Israel museum gets access to Polish archives
Israel's Holocaust museum Yad Vashem signed an agreement with Poland on Monday that gives it access to World War II-era documents held in archives across the eastern European country.
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Train crashes into truck in Spain; 2 dead, 8 hurt
 A passenger train crashed into a heavy-duty dump truck in southwestern Spain on Monday, killing two people and injuring eight others, a government official said.
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UK police may probe alleged tabloid phone hacking
 British Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, a former tabloid editor, offered Monday to meet with police as they consider reopening an investigation into claims his newspaper's reporters illegally eavesdropped on scores of politicians and celebrities.
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Schoolchildren killed in Pakistan suicide attack
A suicide bomber struck a school van, then rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday killing at least 17 people, including children, police said.
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U.N. agency says Iran nuke monitoring stymied
The U.N. atomic agency said Monday that its monitoring of Iran's nuclear activities is being hampered because Tehran objects to giving some agency inspectors access to its program.
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Aftershocks rattle New Zealand city
 Aftershocks rocked New Zealand's second-biggest city on Monday causing further damage and forcing authorities to extend a state of emergency after the country's most damaging earthquake in 80 years.
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Abducted Japanese reporter returns home
 A Japanese journalist returned home Monday after militants in Afghanistan released him from five months in captivity.
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Afghan training to cost U.S. $6 billion a year
The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling out its own combat troops in 2011, The Associated Press has learned.
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Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case
A judge in the Bahamas has dropped charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta following the death of his teenage son in the island chain at the actor's request.
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Giant hay bale crushes ex-ELO star to death
 Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 1,323 lb bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road.
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Van der Sloot admits extortion plot: 'Why not?'
A Dutchman suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway has reportedly confessed to a newspaper in his home country that he extorted money from the girl's parents.
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Female, single, over 30: Iraqis count cost of war
 Only one of Nidal Haidar's six sisters is married. She has given up on ever getting hitched.
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