Brazil doctors remove spear from man's head

Surgeons successfully removed a 15-centimeter (6-inch) fishing spear from the brain of a man who was struck while diving off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, doctors said Sunday. Emerson de Oliveira Abreu apparently fired the spear, which ricocheted off rocks and penetrated his own head so deeply that only the...
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Michelle Obama to address Calif. uni's first class

Seniors at the University of California, Merced couldn't rely on a wealthy and established network of alumni to reel in a famous speaker for this year's commencement address. That's because the UC system's newest campus has yet to graduate a full senior class and only has a handful...
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Labor votes to join Netanyahu government

Israel's Labor Party voted Tuesday to join the incoming government of Benjamin Netanyahu, giving a centrist tone to the coalition that has looked hard-line up to now. Party secretary Eitan Cabel announced the results of the voting after a heated debate _ 680 in favor and 507 against. Ofer Eini, head of the...
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Cuba: US embargo 'still standing' despite new law

Cuba's state-controlled media on Monday downplayed eased U.S. rules on family ties with Cuba, calling the measure a defeat for the communist government's foes that still left Washington's 47-year-old trade embargo intact. The article in the Communist Party newspaper Granma was the first official mention of...
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Ex-volunteer firefighter charged in fatal NY fire

Police on Long Island say a former volunteer firefighter has been arrested in connection with a fire that killed a mother and her three children. Police say 19-year-old Caleb Lacey of Lawrence was charged with first degree arson and four counts of second-degree murder. Police say Lacey, who was arrested on...
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Tensions rise between Chavez, foes in Venezuela

A move to arrest a prominent opposition leader sent thousands of anti-government protesters into the streets of the country's second-largest city Friday, accusing President Hugo Chavez of launching a new attack against his critics. The protest came after a prosecutor called for the arrest of Mayor Manuel Rosales,...
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Dungeon trial: Fritzl pleads guilty to all charges

ST. POELTEN, Austria (CNN) -- Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of repeatedly raping his daughter in a cellar dungeon for decades, has admitted guilt on all charges, including responsibility for the death of one of seven children he fathered by his daughter. Fritzl had already...
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Where's Ecuador? Not on new Brazilian school map

Where's Ecuador? Better not ask that question in Brazil. A new Brazilian geography text book for sixth-grade students doesn't even include the South American country on the map. In fact, the book distributed by the education ministry in Brazil's most populous state botches the location of most of Brazil's neighbors....
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Bundchen, Brady in Brazil to visit model's family

Brazilian media are reporting that Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are in the supermodel's hometown so that she can introduce the American football star to her family. Zero Hora newspaper says the supermodel and Brady are in the southern Brazilian city of Horizontina for the 83rd...
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Obama, Brazilian president to meet at White House

Troubled world economies, energy and the environment will be among the topics for discussion when President Barack Obama sits down with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Trade, relations with Latin America and the case of a New Jersey man trying to bring his 8-year-old...
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Octuplets' mother says she's buying larger home

(CNN) -- Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January, says she's buying a house of her own, despite news reports otherwise. "I earned it. ... No, my father did not purchase this house for me. I did it on my own," Suleman told Radar magazine's Web...
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Netanyahu aide says Obama agrees on Iran, at least

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama may differ on some issues, but they agree that stopping Iran getting a nuclear bomb is a top priority, a senior adviser to Israel's prime minister-designate said on Thursday. Zalman Shoval, a former ambassador to Washington and foreign relations...
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Study finds belly fat makes breathing harder

Carrying excess weight around the middle can impair lung function, adding to a long list of health problems associated with belly fat, French researchers said on Friday.Abdominal obesity is already linked with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease as part of a cluster of...
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Brazil: Rancher tied to nun's case is charged

A rancher fighting accusations that he ordered the murder of a U.S. nun has now been charged with trying to fraudulently obtain the plot of Amazon rain forest she died trying to defend, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The new charge, filed in federal court in the northern city of Altamira, could undermine one...
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Bolivia expels US diplomat

President Evo Morales on Monday ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave the country, alleging he was conspiring with opposition groups. The leftist leader already had expelled the U.S. ambassador six months earlier. Morales said that "deep investigations" had determined the U.S. Embassy's second secretary, Francisco...
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Chavez says US, Brazil free to discuss Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has given Brazil's president the green light to talk about Venezuela with President Barack Obama. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva plans to meet Obama on March 14 in Washington, and Chavez said the Brazilian leader told him by phone that "he would like to talk with...
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NASA planet hunter poised for liftoff

NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, is poised for liftoff, and everything seems to be going well in the final stages of Friday's countdown. Even the weather is cooperating for the nighttime rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. Forecasters put the odds of good weather at more than 95 percent, as good as...
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Teen gets year in Starbucks manslaughter case

A teenager from Georgia has been sentenced to a year in jail in the death of a customer at a St. Louis-area Starbucks. Judge Colleen Dolan handed down the sentence Thursday for 19-year-old Aaron Poisson of Cumming, Ga. He pleaded guilty last month to involuntary manslaughter, stealing and leaving the scene...
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Jerusalem mayor rejects Clinton's criticism

Jerusalem's new mayor said Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was ill-informed when she criticized the demolition of Arab houses in this hotly disputed city. He said the practice is about law and order, not politics. On Wednesday, Clinton called Israel's demolition of the illegally...
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Argentine courts seize Iran diplomat's property

An Argentine court has ordered a second seizure of property owned by a former cultural attache at Iran's embassy in Buenos Aires who is sought for his alleged role in a 1994 terrorist attack. A judge has approved prosecutor Alberto Nisman's motion to seize five more buildings owned by Moshen Rabbani due to...
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US: 'Inescapable' movement to Palestinian state

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised Tuesday to work with the incoming Israeli government, but delivered a clear message that could put her at odds with the country's next leader: Movement toward the establishment of a Palestinian state is "inescapable." Clinton also said the U.S. would soon send...
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