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Residents in three Midwestern states spent Mother's Day sifting through the wreckage of their homes, trying to recover from powerful storms that killed at least 22 people.

Police in Nepal arrested more than 500 Tibetan protesters, nearly all of them women, on Sunday before what was to be the first all-female rally against China's actions in Tibet.

Serbia's pro-Western President Boris Tadic declared victory Sunday in parliamentary elections, despite a challenge to his bloc from nationalist groups.

Sen. Chris Dodd on Sunday joined the chorus of Democratic leaders downplaying the idea of a joint ticket between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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A U.S. military official said Sunday it was "premature" to conclude there will be a truce between the Iraqi government and Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's movement, despite word from both sides that a cease-fire agreement was reached.

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The Hezbollah-led revolt to topple Lebanon's U.S.-backed government triggered new fighting Sunday in mountains overlooking the capital, Beirut.

A U.S. military airplane with relief supplies was scheduled to land in Myanmar Monday on a mission that American officials say they hope will "build trust."

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Sudan has taken action against neighboring Chad, accusing it of helping train the hundreds of anti-government rebels, pictured above, who attacked a suburb of Khartoum. President Omar al-Beshir said Sudan "reserves the right to respond to this attack."

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At least three people were killed by a tornado in Missouri on Saturday as severe storms swept across the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service.

Friends and close associates of both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are now convinced that, assuming she loses the race for the presidential nomination, she is probably going to fight to be the vice presidential nominee on an Obama-for-president ticket.

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Hillary Clinton's superdelegate lead over Barack Obama was narrowed even more over the weekend, according to CNN's latest delegate estimate. Obama closed to within one superdelegate of Clinton, picking up the support of four party leaders after a flurry of new endorsements over the past two days.

The Sudanese government said that it had defeated members of a rebel group in fighting outside the capital of Khartoum, and Sudanese television broadcast pictures of dead rebel fighters and torched vehicles, said sources in the northern Darfur town of El Fasher.

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