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NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – A system that should have passed on a warning to a Pacific Island about the imminant risk of a potentially devastating tsunami failed, a disaster official said Thursday. “Nobody got a warning through the emergency satellite system in our meteorogical office,” Mali’u Takai, deputy director of Tonga’s …

PARIS – Police in a troubled Parisian suburb clashed Tuesday with dozens of young people armed with baseball bats, an incident that revived fears of more riots like those that shook the nation last year. French media reports said seven police were injured in the melee in the town of …

SEATTLE – Under pressure from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) investors to return a portion of the company’s $35 billion cash reserve and revive a flagging share price, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday defended the company’s “first-class problem” of having too much cash. Ballmer, speaking to investors at the Sanford C. …