Two brothers who shared a home were killed in a head-on traffic collision with each other, police said.Jessie West, 24, and James West, 33, were killed Sunday in a head-on collision near Paw Paw, not far from their home in Decatur in southwestern Michigan. James West was driving his 1985 Chevrolet Monte Carlo north when he lost control and crossed into the path of his brother's oncoming 1988 Dodge Daytona, according to police."We've never had anything quite like this," Van Buren County sheriff's Sgt. Virg Franks told the Kalamazoo Gazette.Police said skid marks left at the scene suggested the crash was accidental. Family and friends told police there were no bad feelings between the brothers....
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 Nato troops raid Karadzic homes |
Nato troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina have carried out early morning raids on the homes of the children of the indicted war criminal, Radovan Karadzic. A Nato spokesman said they believed Sasa and Sonja Karadzic to be part of a network supporting their father. Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader during the Yugoslav civil wars, has been on the run for 11 years. He and his military chief, Ratko Mladic, are wanted on genocide charges by the UN tribunal in The Hague. The spokesman said that troops had to force their way into Sonja Karadzic's house because no-one had answered the door. Neither Sonja nor Sasa Karadzic were arrested, but they were questioned for several hours before the soldiers left. The soldiers also searched the homes and took away several items for "examination". ...
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| Tobacco firm wins payout appeal |
The US Supreme Court has thrown out a ruling that tobacco firm Philip Morris must pay $79.5m (£40.7m) in punitive damages after the death of a smoker. The narrow verdict is seen as good news for large firms seeking to limit the payouts that can be awarded by juries. The court decided 5-to-4 that the earlier ruling must be overturned. It said the jury had not been told that it could only fine the firm for harm done to the plaintiff, not to other smokers whose cases were not before it. The case was brought by Mayola Williams, whose husband Jesse died of lung cancer in 1997 after smoking for 40 years. Ms Williams sued the cigarette manufacturer for fraud on behalf of her husband. She had claimed that the jury decision was right because it had punished Philip Morris for a "massive market-directed fraud" over many years - misleading people into thinking cigarettes were not dangerous or addictive....
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| Mozambique fears approaching cyclone will add to flooding misery |
An approaching cyclone threatened to add to the misery of tens of thousands of Mozambicans affected by torrential rains and floods Tuesday. Authorities on Tuesday issued a cyclone warning to inhabitants of central and southern parts of the country and said the army and Red Cross were on standby. "We are warning the people not climb the trees and they must keep their doors and windows well closed," said Belarmino Chivambo, spokesperson for the Mozambique National Office for Natural Disasters Management. He warned people living in flimsy housing to leave because of the risk of collapse. State radio planned a special program on Tuesday evening, to warn people of the dangers of torrential rains and high winds. The weather service said cyclone Favio was expected to hit central and southern Mozambique, particularly Sofala, Inhambane and Gaza provinces....
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| Ahmadinejad: Iran Will Stop Nuke Enrichment if Western Nations Do Too |
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said his country was ready to stop its enrichment program and return to talks provided Western nations also stopped their own.Ahmadinejad told a crowd of thousands in northern Iran one day ahead of a U.N. Security Council deadline that it was no problem for his country to stop, but that "fair talks" demanded a similar gesture from the West."That ... we shut down our nuclear fuel cycle program to let talks begin. It's no problem. But justice demands that those who want to hold talks with us shut down their nuclear fuel cycle program too. Then, we can hold dialogue under a fair atmosphere," Ahmadinejad said.The West is highly unlikely to shut down its nuclear power plants in response to Ahmadinejad's call....
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| No end to deadly Bolivian floods |
At least 35 people have died and 10 are missing in Bolivia as a result of floods caused by months of heavy rain. Up to 340,000 people are estimated to have been affected, as water levels continue to rise in eastern areas. Roads in the worst-hit provinces of Santa Cruz and Beni have been blocked by mudslides, hampering relief efforts. The government has declared a state of emergency and is appealing for international aid. Two months of heavy rain have been blamed on what has become known as the El Nino effect, an occasional seasonal warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean. ...
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