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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Draped in national flags, 20 men each chopped off their little finger Monday in anger over Japanese textbooks that allegedly gloss over atrocities by Japanese soldiers during World War II.

BOSTON (AP) - The multibillion-dollar 1998 national tobacco pact has failed to turn back a torrent of cigarette advertising placed in magazines and aimed at children, a study concluded.

BOSTON (AP) - The multibillion-dollar 1998 national tobacco pact has failed to turn back a torrent of cigarette advertising placed in magazines and aimed at children, a study concluded.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Jurors in a $1 billion liability lawsuit against Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. deliberated for eight hours Wednesday without reaching a verdict on whether a defective tire led to a rollover accident that left a Texas woman...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - India's prime minister said Sunday he would meet Pakistan's president in New York next month to renew peace negotiations that broke down over the bitter Kashmir dispute during a July summit, news reports said.

JERUSALEM (AP) - With water dwindling in Israel's aquifers and the Sea of Galilee, the government said Tuesday it plans to build three new plants to make Mediterranean seawater drinkable.

ROME (AP) - An upcoming U.N. food summit must be moved from ``sacred Rome'' to a city that is easier to protect from violence, Italy's government said Friday.

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - Investigators found human remains believed to be those of James Beck on Saturday in the burnt shell of the home where the one-time police officer barricaded himself during a deadly gun battle.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Rescuers were searching for survivors through the wreckage of a passenger train that slammed into a locomotive on Indonesia's Java Island Sunday killing at least 36 people, officials said.

GENEVA (AP) - Badly thought-out aid efforts that don't pay enough attention to rebuilding the economy of a devastated area can do more harm than good to disaster victims in the long run, leaving them vulnerable to future catastrophes, said a Red...