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'); document.write(''); document.write('CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico\'s Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('KOURE, Niger (AP) — A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say a graffiti artist who apparently ran out of paint midway through a spray-painted creation left a note to potential critics to explain the unfinished work.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis and urged world finance officials meeting Saturday in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate change.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn\'t stop crying.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('MIAMI (AP) — Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next week.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('FILAS DE MARICHES, Venezuela (AP) — While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it\'s just more of the same.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico\'s Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns complained that no help had arrived.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression Friday and edged back out over the Caribbean, where forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the United States.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices tumbled Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate topped 10 percent for the first time since 1983.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An 85-foot blue spruce soon will embark on a long journey from the mountains of northeastern Arizona to Washington, D.C., to stand as the Capitol Christmas tree.
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