PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United Nations canceled a distribution of free rice for thousands of hungry Haitians on Monday after counterfeiters printed up fake tickets to gain access to the giveaway. A woman carried a bag of rice as American soldiers
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United Nations called off a food distribution for thousands of hungry Haitians on Monday after counterfeiters printed fake tickets to gain access to distribution, a rice giveaway. Times Topics: Haiti David Orr, a spokesman
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The high-profile sodomy trial of Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader, has been temporarily halted after his lawyers moved to have the presiding judge disqualified. Judge adjourned the trial on Monday, and the following day will hear an
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Sarath Fonseka, the main opposition candidate in last month's presidential election in Sri Lanka, was tonight arrested at his party's offices. General Fonseka, a retired four-star general who lost to President Mahinda Rajapakse in the January 26 vote,
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KIEV, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich beat competitor Yulia Tymoshenko in Sunday's presidential runoff by a small margin, with 98 percent of the ballots counted, preliminary official results showed Monday. Yanukovich
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