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Brazil: Indigenous squatters resist eviction

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 12th

By JULIANA BARBASSAAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Police in riot gear surrounded a settlement of indigenous people next to Rio de Janeiro's storied Maracana stadium on Saturday, preparing to evict them as soon as an expected court order arrived. The site commander, police Lt. Alex Melo

France vows help after Mali Islamists take town

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 10th

By BABA AHMED and KRISTA LARSONAssociated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - France's president vowed Friday to help stop the advance of radical Islamists in Mali, a day after the al-Qaida-linked militants seized a key town not far from a regional hub where the Malian military and international aid

Obama picks Lew for Treasury as fiscal issues loom

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 10th

By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - For 30 years, Jack Lew has had a hand in some of the biggest economic deals negotiated in Washington. What awaits him if he's confirmed as treasury secretary could far exceed any challenge of the past - a triple-decked potential crisis that will

Obama picks Lew for Treasury as fiscal issues loom

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 10th

Obama picks Lew for Treasury as fiscal issues loom

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 10th

Obama picks Lew for Treasury as fiscal issues loom

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 10th

Police: Man shot after hitting officer with car

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 7th

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A standoff ended with the death of a handcuffed burglary suspect who hit a Montana police officer with his own patrol car before the officer opened fire, authorities said. The 29-year-old man was in the back seat of the idling patrol car Sunday afternoon when he somehow

Man Shot During Standoff Near Idaho

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 7th

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) - A man suffered a gunshot wound during a standoff with Canyon County sheriff's deputies at a residence east of Nampa. The sheriff's office says deputies responded at about 8:45 p.m. Sunday to a report that a man had a gun and was creating a disturbance.

Deal defuses standoff in Chinese censorship case

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 7th

By DIDI TANGAssociated Press GUANGZHOU, China (AP) - A deal to keep propaganda officials from rewriting articles before they appear in an influential weekly newspaper does not mean an end to censorship in Chinese media, although it does defuse a standoff that became an unexpected test of the new

Police kill gunman, find 3 more dead in Colo. home

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 6th

By P. SOLOMON BANDAAssociated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) - SWAT officers who stormed a Colorado home where a gunman had holed up found a horrific scene - four dead bodies including that of the gunman. Police said the armed man fired shots at officers Saturday from a second-story window before