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Speaker Pelsosi is the General Custer of our time. She is leading her troops to slaughter at the polls in 2010. The Speaker is vastly outnumbered by a majority of Americans do not want the health care reforms dictated by House Bill passed Saturday evening. According to a poll by …

MADRID – Emergency services in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia say they have deployed 40 rescue experts to extricate an injured caver from deep underground. A phone call Saturday alerted firefighters to the emergency inside the Cuberes cave in the municipality of Conca de Dalt. Preliminary information from the call …

ATHENS, Greece – Looking tired and leaning on his cane, Fotis Theodorakopoulos watched quietly as other demonstrators gathered to discuss Greece’s financial drama and chant defiant slogans outside the parliament. Although he stayed on the sidelines, the 69-year-old said he was fully aware that Europe was about to decide on …

UNITED NATIONS – The Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a one-year extension of the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western Darfur region where conflict is intensifying, rejecting the Sudanese government’s demand that the troops leave. A resolution adopted by the U.N.’s most powerful body keeps the size …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s government says the brutal heat wave that hit the port city of Karachi and the country’s southern province of Sind in June killed 1,250 people before subsiding. A government statement on the latest death toll from the heat wave was handed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – An Estonian official says a Russian military aircraft violated Estonian airspace over the Baltic Sea this week. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Belovas says a note to protest the incident was handed over Friday to a high-ranking Russian diplomat. Belovas says a Russian Antonov An-26 aircraft entered Estonian …

BAGHDAD – A series of bombings Sunday across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 29 people and wounded 81, police officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. However, the Islamic State militant group is often behind assaults on checkpoints and other locations across the capital as …

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean prosecutors have indicted dozens of people, including two former navy chiefs of staff, over their investigation into alleged corruption associated with numerous defense procurement projects. Senior prosecutor Kim Ki-dong said Wednesday that 63 people face charges of accepting bribes, fabricating official documents or leaking …

YANGON, Myanmar – The U.N.’s emergency relief organization says incessant monsoon rain in northwestern Myanmar has triggered flooding, leaving nine people dead and affecting 70,000 others. The report on Sagaing Region from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 12,000 houses have been damaged and schools forced …

RABAT, Morocco – A member of the support committee for a dissident Moroccan journalist says he has been persuaded to end his month-long hunger strike in protest of the government and has been admitted to a hospital in Geneva. Ali Mrabet began a hunger strike outside the U.N. headquarters on …