Ciudad Juarez, Mexico—A wave of drug-related killings claimed the lives of 33 people in Mexico’s violence-torn northern border states, authorities said Monday.The deaths included eight people who were massacred in the early morning hours in a bar in the border city of Ciudad Juarez by gunmen who killed the owner and his wife and then sprayed customers with automatic rifle fire, the local prosecutor’s office said.

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London—A row erupted in Britain Monday over the rebranding of Oxford Airport as London Oxford Airport - despite being 60 miles from the capital’s centre.Officials said they hoped the rebranding of the airport at Kidlington near Oxford in southeast England would raise its international profile and attract more passengers. But heritage campaigners slammed the rebranding as insulting, saying historic Oxford city, with its prestigious university, did not need to be seen as an offshoot of the British capital.They also said the new name was

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AS the debate intensifies within the Obama administration over how to stabilize Afghanistan, one major problem is conspicuously missing from the discussion: the growing alienation of the country’s largest ethnic group, the Pashtun tribes, who make up an estimated 42 percent of the population of 33 million.One of the basic reasons many Pashtuns support the Taleban insurgency is that their historic rivals, ethnic Tajiks, hold most of the key

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Seoul—South Korean police have arrested a man accused of hiring two hitmen to murder his adoptive mother, reports said Tuesday.Police allege the son, identified only as Lee, found the killers online. He allegedly paid them 130 million won (103,000 dollars) to suffocate the woman who had raised him for over 30 years after finding

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Warsaw (Poland)— Polish fans joined together in song to wish Madonna a happy birthday at a concert in Warsaw _ just hours before she turned 51.In a break between two songs Saturday evening, a fan held up a sign wishing her a happy birthday and audience members sang, “may you live a hundred years,” a traditional Polish birthday

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