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BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. soldiers killed 14 insurgents in two days of fighting in a strategic northern city, the American military said Monday, and gunmen killed 10 Iraqi soldiers in the central Sunni heartland. A hard-line Sunni clerical group accused Iraqi government commandos of torturing and killing 10 Sunni Arab …

MINNEAPOLIS – The convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping two children in Idaho wrote about a missing Minnesota girl on his Weblog, and investigators are now looking into whether he might have had anything to do with her disappearance. On his Internet diary, Joseph Edward Duncan III (search) wrote in …

CANCUN, Mexico – Hurricane Emily weakened slightly as it began lashing the beaches of the Yucatan peninsula (search) on Sunday, hours after thousands of jittery tourists streamed out of their waterfront hotels and fled inland to shelter at schools and gymnasiums. The Category 4 storm caused heavy flooding that swept …