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In Brazil, drug giveaway blunts AIDS
RIO DE JANEIRO - A decade ago, health experts predicted an AIDS explosion in Latin America, striking hardest at Brazil, with its teeming population and sexual permissiveness.

Fortress pharmacies lock down drugs
PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Carrie Cinnamond realized just how much times have changed when she had a steel vault hauled into her pharmacy in eastern Kentucky.

U.S. gives glimpse into Gitmo interrogations
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Moving a knight into attack mode, a terror suspect teaches his interrogator chess, pausing briefly to look at a manual that U.S. officials believe holds key intelligence.

France to put 10 on trial in terror plot
PARIS - Ten terror suspects, including a man thought to be a top Osama bin Laden lieutenant in Europe, will stand trial for a millennium plot to attack the a market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, judicial officials said Monday.

Nation confronts its 'tale of horror'
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Calling it a "tale of horror," a U.N.-sponsored war crimes court opened the first trials Monday for rebel military commanders accused in a vicious 10-year campaign for control of diamond-rich Sierra Leone.

Voters rebuke Indonesian president
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian voters frustrated by persistent corruption and poverty dealt a harsh blow to President Megawati Sukarnoputri, with a private poll Monday showing a former general pulling ahead to force a runoff in the country's presidential election.

Britain may put limits on spanking
LONDON - British lawmakers decided Monday not to ban parents from spanking their children. Instead, the House of Lords voted to allow moderate spanking but to make it easier to prosecute parents who physically or mentally abuse their children by spanking.


Health & Medicine
Choice slows drug card expansion
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is resisting calls from across the political spectrum to broaden the automatic enrollment of poor people in the Medicare discount drug card program.

Iraq
Marine taken to 'safety'; U.S. hits militant hotbed
U.S. forces launch an airstrike against a militant safe house in Fallujah as an oil pipeline breach cripples Iraqi exports.
Iraq torn between need for vengeance, justice
HILLAH, Iraq - Ibrahim al-Idrissi lost seven family members and was jailed 11 times during Saddam Hussein's rule. Like many Iraqis, al-Idrissi - now head of an agency helping Iraqis who suffered under Hussein - is torn between hatred for the former regime and respect for human rights and due process in postwar Iraq.

Nation in brief
Ariz. wildfire nears $200-million observatory
SAFFORD, Ariz. - Firefighters widened a defensive ring around a mountaintop observatory Monday to try to hold back two wildfires and protect one of the world's most powerful telescopes under construction.

World in brief
Lenders declare oil giant Yukos in default
MOSCOW - International creditors declared the beleaguered Yukos Oil Co. in default on a $1-billion loan, the firm announced Monday, propelling Russia's biggest oil producer closer to the edge of financial collapse.

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