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VIENNA (AFP) - Oil producer group OPEC, which pumps 40 percent of world crude, is to keep its production unchanged at ... [visit website]

NEW YORK (AFP) - Brent crude oil slipped below the key level of 100 dollars a barrel Tuesday for the first ... [visit website]

HAVANA (AFP) - Deadly Hurricane Ike on Tuesday lashed Cuba's crumbling and crowded capital Havana, tearing off roofs, uprooting trees, knocking ... [visit website]

BANGKOK (AFP) - A Thai court Tuesday stripped Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej of his post for taking payments for hosting TV ... [visit website]

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il failed to appear Tuesday at a massive parade marking the communist country's 60th ... [visit website]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush announced Tuesday modest cuts in US troop levels in Iraq, a move that drew ... [visit website]

The News / wire storiesISLAMABAD (AFP) - Asif Ali Zardari took office as Pakistan's new president Tuesday, and immediately pledged to ... [visit website]

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices plunged more than five dollars in New York Tuesday after Hurricane Gustav appeared to have wreaked ... [visit website]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google on Tuesday launched its own Internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and ... [visit website]

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) - Emergency workers hustled on Tuesday to revive a hurricane-battered New Orleans area nearly devoid of power ... [visit website]