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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Stray bullets whizzing through slums, kidnappings, suffocating poverty and a dying economy — Haitians have no shortage of things they would like to change about their troubled country. They will have their say on Tuesday in long-delayed elections aimed at restoring elusive democracy, two years after a …

LONDON – Kevin Costner was accused of performing an indecent act as he received a massage at a Scottish hotel, in a claim by a former spa worker filed with a British employment tribunal. The 34-year-old woman claimed the actor exposed himself and carried out a sex act as she …

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – A boat packed with West Africans trying to reach Europe collided with a fishing vessel, leaving 32 of the migrants missing and believed drowned, Mauritanian officials said Sunday. Mauritania, located in the northwest of Africa about 600 miles from Spain’s Canary Islands, has increasingly become a jumping-off …