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UNITED NATIONS – Sudan (search) insists its courts should prosecute alleged perpetrators of human rights abuses in Darfur (search) despite calls by the United States and other Security Council members for international trials — though they disagree where. Sudan’s first vice president, Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, told the U.N. Security …

The government is adding viruses for the first time to its list of known or suspected causes of cancer, including hepatitis B and C (search) and a third virus that causes sexually transmitted diseases. Lead, X-rays and compounds in grilled meats also are joining the list. It has been known …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Under the watch of armed Western security guards and monitors, Iraqi election workers are doing a second count of the country’s historic vote, tapping at computer keyboards and sifting through bags of tally sheets. Papers rustled and scissors snapped as elections employees standing behind a long counter …