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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – African leaders grappled Sunday with a long-simmering crisis in Zimbabwe and a new humanitarian catastrophe in Congo, lamenting that war and conflict stand in the way of development in the world’s poorest continent. South African President Kgalema Motlanthe opened Sunday’s extraordinary summit of the Southern African …

EUSTIS, Fla. – A rookie police officer in central Florida has been fired after supervisors learned that he Tasered a teenager at a birthday party that involved underage drinking. Eustis Police Chief Fred Cobb says 22-year-old Dan NeSmith lost his job, but the department will not charge him for shocking …

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A man temporarily extradited from the U.S. has told a court he and two other men killed at least 10 women in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. Jose Granados, 30, acknowledged to a judge on Wednesday that they killed the women from about 1993 …