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MEXICO CITY – Five children were killed and nine people were injured in central Mexico when lightning bolts struck a metal cross on a hillside as people decorated the cross in preparation for a May 3 religious holiday, authorities reported on Monday. The accident occurred late Sunday at a rural …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – U.S.-led coalition warplanes bombed a suspectedTaliban camp in southern Afghanistan, killing three insurgents, while five more militants and one policeman died in a fierce gunbattle, officials said Tuesday. The aircraft fired two Hellfire missiles and dropped one bomb late Monday on the camp in the Lashkar Gah …

WASHINGTON – Widespread criticism of the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina was largely deserved, the Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog concludes in a report rapping the agency for focusing on terrorism at the expense of preparing for natural disasters. The report by Inspector General Richard L. Skinner, to be …