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HARARE, Zimbabwe – Widespread voter intimidation and low turnout marked Zimbabwe’s one-candidate presidential runoff Friday, further damaging the vote designed to bolster longtime President Robert Mugabe’s credibility. Residents said they were forced to vote, threatened by violence, arson or roving bands of government supporters searching for those without an ink-stained …

DENVER – Two companies that worked as contractors with the now-defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have been ordered to pay $925 million to residents who claimed that contamination blown from the facility endangered people’s health and devalued their property. A federal judge on Monday ordered Dow Chemical Co. to …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A statement attributed to Al Qaeda on Thursday claimed responsibility for this week’s deadly bombing at the Danish Embassy and threatened more attacks on countries where cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad are published. The statement, signed by an Al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, also lauded Pakistani jihadists …