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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Puerto Rico's government has asked U.S. authorities to halt a federal program to eradicate the chirping tree frogs loved in their native Puerto Rico but considered a noisy pest in Hawaii.

LONDON (AP) - Saying he was ``ready to help'' with the peace process, President Bush called on Northern Ireland political parties to honor a landmark 1998 peace accord, which is in danger of collapsing.

LONDON (AP) - Saying he was ``ready to help'' with the peace process, President Bush called on Northern Ireland political parties to honor a landmark 1998 peace accord, which is in danger of collapsing.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Despite Brazil's commitment to tackling human rights abuses, police in Latin America's largest country systematically resort to torture to extract confessions from prisoners, Amnesty International said Thursday.

GENEVA (AP) - A key meeting of trade ministers will go ahead in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar next month despite security fears following the Sept. 11 terror attacks and subsequent U.S.-led strikes in Afghanistan, the World Trade Organization...

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) - A key European Union leader pressured Macedonia's rival ethnic groups Friday to resolve an impasse that has threatened to block the peace process in the Balkan country.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) - Macedonia's president asked President Bush on Thursday to offer American support for a change in the peace plan intended to end this Balkan country's crisis.