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TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories – Arctic hunters reluctantly gathered their harpoons and rifles Thursday to kill dozens of beluga whales that have been trapped for weeks in saltwater lakes and now have only one small air hole remaining. Inuits living near Tuktoyaktuk, in the far Northwest Territories, had hoped the belugas …

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FRANKFURT, Germany – Smart GmbH and United Auto Group Inc. said Thursday they will bring the two-seat smart fortwo to the U.S. in early 2008. Boeblingen-based Smart, part of DaimlerChrysler AG’s Mercedes Car Group, said its President Ulrich Walker had signed a general distributor agreement with United Auto Chairman Roger …

NEW DELHI – Indian scientists working in a tropical forest in the country’s remote northeast have found a rare medicinal plant last seen 115 years ago, a scientific journal reported. The botanists were working in the Upper Subansiri district of Arunchal Pradesh, an Indian state that borders China, when they …

ALBANY, N.Y. – A former soldier from western New York is among the four Americans and one Austrian who were kidnapped in southern Iraq last week, family members said Sunday. Jonathon Cote, 23, a native of Getzville, N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo, was working as a guard for Crescent Security …

TEL AVIV, Israel – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday all but conceded that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by a year-end target is no longer possible. But she also said upon arriving in the region that “it is important to maintain momentum and support for the negotiations.” En route …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration, in the midst of a wide review of its war strategy in Afghanistan, is likely to recommend soon to the incoming Obama administration that the U.S. push for further expansion of the Afghan army as the surest path to an eventual U.S. withdrawal, The Associated …

LARNACA, Cyprus – A group of European lawmakers said Tuesday they will petition the European Union to suspend a preferential trade agreement with Israel because of what they described as its “cruel” blockade of Gaza. Lord Nazir Ahmed, a Muslim member of Britain’s House of Lords, said Gaza’s 1.4 million …

We don’t call them man’s best friend for nothing. A man from England has credited his dog with “sniffing out” a life-threatening form of cancer, the BBC reported. Chris Tuffrey, from north Oxfordshire, told the BBC his Rottweiler “Beamish” kept nuzzling and licking him near a mole on his chest …

She was giving less than a 10 percent chance of survival, but little Chloe Wilson is thriving despite being born four months early. Chloe weighed only 1lb. 2 oz. when her mother, Michelle, gave birth 23 weeks into her pregnancy, making Chloe one of the most premature babies to have …