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SAN GIULIANO DI PUGLIA, Italy – Wails of grief gave way to howls of panic Friday when aftershocks jolted this village as it recovered the last of 26 children — including all the first graders except one — killed when an earthquake destroyed their school. Two elderly woman were killed …

LONDON – A radical Muslim cleric said Saturday he believed Al Qaeda terrorists were involved in this week’s simultaneous terror attacks on an Israeli-owned airliner and resort hotel in Kenya. “You are going to see this repeated all the time. With so many members of Al Qaeda all over the …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Candidates supported by Iraq’s most senior Shiite Muslim (search) cleric said Saturday they have no intention of setting up an Islamic state if they win this month’s national election and instead will work to improve security, the economy and public services. National Security Adviser Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie (search) …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A mother forced her 12-year-old daughter to drink bleach for having sex and sat on her until the child died, a police detective said, adding that a 9-year-old brother was forced to watch the attack. Detective Warren Cotton’s testimony came Thursday in a preliminary hearing for Tunisia …

NEW YORK – Blue chips fell Thursday worries about rising oil prices and somewhat disappointing earnings from companies like Caterpillar offset more upbeat profit reports and a rumored takeover bid for AT&T. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) ended down 31.19 points, or 0.30 percent, at 10,467.40. The Standard & …

BOSTON – A judge suing the Boston Herald (search) for libel testified Monday that he never told lawyers to tell a 14-year-old rape victim to “get over it.” The Herald reported that Superior Court Judge Ernest Murphy (search) made the statement in 2002 during a closed meeting with lawyers. Murphy …

TAMPA, Fla. – In what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind, a judge on Wednesday upheld the federal law letting states ban same-sex marriages (search), dismissing a lawsuit by two women seeking to have their Massachusetts marriage recognized here. Attorneys for conservative groups hailed the ruling …

RAMALLAH, West Bank – A total of 46 members of the Palestinian election commission, including the top management, resigned Saturday saying they had been pressured by the campaign of Mahmoud Abbas (search) and intelligence officials to abruptly change voting procedures during the presidential election. While the Central Election Commission (search) …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Insurgents stepped up attacks Thursday against polling centers across Iraq (search). killing at least a dozen people, including a U.S. Marine, in the rebel campaign to frighten Iraqis away from participating in this weekend’s election. As part of an intensifying campaign of intimidation, an Al Qaeda (search) …