| Pinera assumes Chile presidency amid strong quakes |
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| SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is urging citizens along the coast to move quickly to higher ground following five strongly felt aftershocks, including the biggest since last month's 8.8-magnitude temblor.... |
| Partial results from Iraqi vote show tight contest |
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| BAGHDAD (AP) -- Partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq show the prime minister's bloc and a secular challenger winning two provinces each.... |
| Americans' net worth up for 3rd straight quarter |
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- American households saw their wealth increase at the end of last year, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios.... |
| Democrats, White House close in on health bill |
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leaders on Thursday worked to rally their rank-and-file members around last-minute agreements on insurance taxes and prescription drug coverage that could move President Barack Obama's overhaul of the nation's health care system a step closer to reality.... |
| Greece hit by strikes, riots over austerity plan |
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| ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures.... |
| KC superintendent says school closings are painful |
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| KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district's schools was difficult and painful but "unquestionably the right thing to do."... |
| Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person |
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| MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world's richest person - a shift that underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club.... |