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Oil Refineries? Not in Our Backyard

LOS ANGELES – As prices continue to soar at the pump, critics are pointing fingers in many directions, citing big oil’s giant profits or China’s increased oil consumption, among other things. But some experts say it’s the United States’ own fault for not refining black gold into gasoline faster. Crude …

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Residents Return to Romanian Villages as Danube Recedes

MANASTIRE, Romania – Residents began returning to impoverished, flood-swept villages in southern Romania on Thursday to clear up debris and take stock of the damage left behind by the swollen Danube River in recent days. When the river’s waters crashed over sandbagged dikes and roared for several kilometers over flat …

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Iraq Attacks Kill 41, Wound 70 in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A string of deadly attacks ripped through the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 70, police said. Six small Shiite shrines also were damaged in a series of blasts around the Baqouba, a mixed Sunni Arab-Shiite region where sectarian tensions are …

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