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HAVANA (AP) -- It's a quintessentially Cuban experience: Capping off a meal with a snifter of rum and an aromatic cigar....

HAVANA (AP) -- It's a quintessentially Cuban experience: Capping off a meal with a snifter of rum and an aromatic cigar....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he thinks a bloc of left-leaning nations should attend the upcoming Summit of the Americas despite their opposition to Cuba's exclusion....

VIENNA (AP) -- North Korea has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency to return, three years after expelling its nuclear monitors, the agency said Monday. The U.S. said such a move would be welcome but remained critical of the North's rocket launch plans....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Following a day of protests calling for the arrest of a Florida neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot an unarmed black teen, the U.S. Justice Department announced late Monday it will investigate the case....

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- Gunmen ambushed and killed 12 police officers who had been sent to search for the bodies of 10 people whose severed heads were found in southern Guerrero state, authorities said Monday....

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- Gunmen ambushed and killed 12 police officers who had been sent to search for the bodies of 10 people whose severed heads were found in southern Guerrero state, authorities said Monday....

CHICAGO (AP) -- They are lined up in the freezing rain, waiting patiently, stubbornly. All night. All for a few pairs of shoes....

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- The Army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime shooting rampage has a sketchy memory of the night of the massacre, his lawyer said Monday after meeting his client for the first time....

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- The Army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime shooting rampage has a sketchy memory of the night of the massacre, his lawyer said Monday after meeting his client for the first time....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan prosecutors have appointed a group of experts to assist in an investigation into the killing of a Chilean diplomat's 19-year-old daughter by police....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan prosecutors have appointed a group of experts to assist in an investigation into the killing of a Chilean diplomat's 19-year-old daughter by police....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Mets' owners scored an early-season victory Monday, stabilizing the club's financial future in a deal with a trustee for Bernard Madoff's fraud victims that requires them to pay millions less than they might have - and lifts a dark cloud from a team whose dismal play seemed to mirror its misfortune in the owner's box....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Mets' owners scored an early-season victory Monday, stabilizing the club's financial future in a deal with a trustee for Bernard Madoff's fraud victims that requires them to pay millions less than they might have - and lifts a dark cloud from a team whose dismal play seemed to mirror its misfortune in the owner's box....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Mets' owners scored an early-season victory Monday, stabilizing the club's financial future in a deal with a trustee for Bernard Madoff's fraud victims that requires them to pay millions less than they might have - and lifts a dark cloud from a team whose dismal play seemed to mirror its misfortune in the owner's box....

ATLANTA (AP) -- As a fierce thunderstorm that seemed to come out of nowhere closed in, hot-air balloon pilot Edward Ristaino spotted an open field 4,000 feet below and calmly and tersely warned the five skydivers aboard the craft, "You need to get out now."...

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A man who made comments about his estranged wife on his Facebook page and was threatened with jail unless he posted daily apologies for a month won't be locked up even though he stopped making amends early....

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A man who made comments about his estranged wife on his Facebook page and was threatened with jail unless he posted daily apologies for a month won't be locked up even though he stopped making amends early....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- A gunman on a motorbike opened fire Monday at a Jewish school, killing a rabbi and his two young sons as they waited for a bus, then chased down a 7-year-old girl, shooting her dead at point-blank range. It was the latest in a series of attacks on minorities that have raised fears of a racist killer on the loose....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- A gunman on a motorbike opened fire Monday at a Jewish school, killing a rabbi and his two young sons as they waited for a bus, then chased down a 7-year-old girl, shooting her dead at point-blank range. It was the latest in a series of attacks on minorities that have raised fears of a racist killer on the loose....