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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Six demonstrators — three anti-government and three pro-Aristide supporters — were shot Monday during protests in west-coast Gonaives and in the capital, where thousands more marched in a pro-government rally. In Petit-Goave, about 45 miles west of Port-au-Prince, students shook anti-Aristide placards and clashed with Aristide supporters …

CAIRO, Egypt – Six exiled Iraqi opposition groups have settled a feud that delayed a meeting to discuss their possible role in toppling Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi dissident said Sunday. Though the way has been opened for a meeting in Brussels — originally scheduled for September, the opposition remains deeply …

WASHINGTON – U.S. industrial output posted its sharpest drop in more than a year in October, the Federal Reserve said Friday, stoking worries about the health of the nation’s embattled factory sector. The Fed said October’s larger-than-expected 0.8 percent decline was the largest since a 1.1 percent drop seen in …