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Tropical Storm Barry nears landfall on Mexico's Gulf Coast in Veracruz; flash flood threat
VERACRUZ, Mexico - Tropical Storm Barry bore down on Mexico's Gulf Coast early Thursday as civil defence workers readied emergency shelters and forecasters warned of potentially deadly flash flooding from the system's drenching rains.
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Taliban offer to free US soldier in exchange for Afghans held at Guantanamo
ISLAMABAD - The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. army soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as a conciliatory gesture, a senior spokesman for the group said Thursday. -
Auction house to sell leg irons that held abolitionist John Brown
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can't afford to bid on them -
Rescuers try to reach thousands stranded in flood-hit north India; at least 104 people dead
LUCKNOW, India - Days after floods killed more than 100 people - possibly many more - rescuers used helicopters and climbed through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern Himalayas, officials said Thursday. -
