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YANGON, Myanmar – Residents of Myanmar’s biggest city lit candles Monday, lined up to buy water and hacked their way through trees felled in a cyclone that killed more than 350 people, destroyed thousands of homes and caused widespread power cuts. Older citizens said they had never seen Yangon, a …

SALT LAKE CITY – A federal judge ordered a $63,000 civil-fraud judgment against four people who claim to be chiefs of an American Indian tribe in eastern Utah. The men, who got organized at an Arby’s restaurant and claim to have hundreds of tribal members, refuse to recognize U.S or …

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Hundreds of youths in Somalia’s capital lobbed stones at shops and cars and set tires ablaze Tuesday in a second day of violence over soaring food prices. Besides rising prices, the protests have been driven by shopkeepers’ refusal to accept some bank notes, apparently out of concern …