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Mexican boy's eyes gouged out 'to save the world'

Red Cross emergency responders carry away an unidentified child on a stretcher after the helicopter carrying him landed at a medical facility in Mexico City, Thursday May 24, 2012. The 5 year-old boy allegedly had both his eyes gouged by his own mother in what authorities say appeared to have been a drug-fueled ritual. The mother and several other relatives were arrested.

A 5-year-old Mexican boy whose eyes were allegedly gouged out by his mother as part of a drug-fueled ritual "to save the world" is expected to live, but has been left completely blind, health authorities said Friday.

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French president: All combat troops out in 2012

French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France's combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying Friday he would leave around 1,400 soldiers behind to help with training and logistics.

12 hours ago
WORLD

Berlusconi angles for Italian presidency

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appears to be angling for the role of Italian president - with enhanced powers.

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WORLD

Israeli archaeologists find rare ancient jewelry

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon.

5 hours ago
WORLD

Mexico pres front-runner promises to cut violence

Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexico's two most powerful drug cartels.

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NATIONAL

UN agency finds higher enrichment at Iranian site

Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday in a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles.

23 hours ago
WORLD

Obese UK woman cut out of house

Emergency workers who needed to take an obese teenager from her home to a hospital in Wales had to break through a wall of the residence to get her out and into an ambulance, officials said Friday.

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WORLD

US clampdown on visas for teachers upsets China

A U.S. clampdown on visas for instructors at China's flagship cultural program overseas has incensed Beijing, with state media pouncing on it as an attempt by Washington to frustrate Chinese global ambitions.

10 hours ago
WORLD

Hurricane Bud roars toward Mexican coast

Hurricane Bud continued to weaken early Friday as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta. Two people, one of them from France, were reported missing in a separate storm in Cuba.

8 hours ago
WORLD

Brazil's leader vetoes portions of new forest law

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff used her line-item veto powers on a congressional bill that weakened the nation's benchmark environmental law protecting the Amazon.

1 hour ago
NATIONAL SPORTS

Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown

A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles.

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