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BRUSSELS - About 100 cars and trucks wereinvolved in three pile-ups at a highway in western Belgium in a dense morningfog Tuesday, leaving at least one dead and 54 injured.Medical workers were working to freeinjured passengers from the twisted metal of their vehicles hours after thecrash, and the fog is making the emergency rescue by helicopter impo
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A Jordanian who was responsible for slaughtering two U.S. soldiers last month was fatally wounded in a clash with security forces, a senior Iraqi official said Tuesday.Diyar Ismail Mahmoud, known as Abu al-Afghani, was identified as the killer of the two soldiers, Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie told reporters. The two soldiers mutilated bodies were found after they were taken prisoner following a clash near Youssifiyah.A third American was killed in the clash.Al-Rubaie did not say when Mahmoud was wounded or when he died.The bodies of two soldiers from
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The 1990s have been a decade of tumbling profits for Japanese automakers. But amid the chrome and choreography of the 1999 Tokyo
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PARIS mdash; Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, was found guilty by a French court of negligence on Monday in a case involving the French state handing $425 million in taxpayer money to a tycoon close to the president in 2008.CBS Newsrsquo; Elaine Cobbe reports Lagarde, who was not in court to hear the verdict, will escape punishment, and the guilty verdict will not appear on her record. The well-respected head of the IMF has denied wrongdoing i
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