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BRASILIA, Brazil -- Breakfast with Hugo Chavez; dinner with Fidel Castro. Oil tanker hits wrecked ship near Belgium BRUSSELS -- A tanker loaded with 2-million gallons of oil ignored safety buoys and hourly radio warnings before it slammed into a shipwreck in one of the world's busiest sea lanes, officials said Thursday. Clonaid: Parents of 'cloned' baby balking on DNA tests PARIS -- The parents of a newborn claimed to be the world's first cloned human are balking on whether to allow DNA testing on the child, said the head of the cloning company that says it brought the baby to life. Nation in brief Head of troubled federal lab quits Ga. town braces for loss of its soldiers HINESVILLE, Ga. -- About 10,000 soldiers -- a third of this town's population -- are moving out of their apartments, putting furniture in storage, stocking up on desert gear and trying to steal extra moments with loved ones. Iraq claims no weapons; inspectors quiet BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq said Thursday that it has cooperated with U.N. inspectors, that they have found no weapons of mass destruction in five weeks of searching, and that their report to the U.N. Security Council this month should favor Baghdad. Bush thinks peaceful solution possible on N. Korea CRAWFORD, Texas -- Rebuking North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, President Bush said Thursday he has "no heart for somebody who starves his folks." Fighting terror notebook: Pilots pressured to take amphetamines, lawyer says NEW ORLEANS -- A lawyer for one of two U.S. pilots who released a bomb over southern Afghanistan in April, accidentally killing four Canadian soldiers, says the Air Force had pressured the pilots to take amphetamines that may have impaired their judgment during the mission. Obituaries Miss. says it's first to link all public classrooms to Internet HERNANDO, Miss. -- Mississippi has become the first state to have an online computer in each of its public-school classrooms, a spokesman for the governor said. World in brief: Fewer journalists were slain in 2002 NEW YORK -- Nineteen journalists were killed worldwide in the line of duty in 2002, down sharply from 37 the year before, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. For study abroad, Cuba gains interest Although Europe remains by far the top destination for U.S. college students studying abroad, more and more are choosing to enhance their education at an exotic location closer to home: Cuba. No license? For Italians, no problem! Go drive a minicar ROME -- Niccolo Cantaloni turns the key and holds tight as his little vehicle shudders forward with a noise like a diesel lawnmower grinding long grass. This isn't exactly a Ferrari, but the snubnosed, 8-foot-long minicar isn't bad for a teenager's first wheels. National headlines World headlines Science headlines
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