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Rescuers comb Oklahoma tornado rubble for buried survivors

MOORE, Oklahoma - Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights combed through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, homes and buildings in an Oklahoma City suburb. | Video

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Mugabe signs Zimbabwe constitution into law

HARARE - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signed a new constitution into law on Wednesday, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and paving the way for elections later this year.

Iran's Ahmadinejad to challenge ally's ban from election

DUBAI - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would ask Iran's supreme leader to reverse a ban preventing his aide from running in next month's presidential poll, a test of stability after the violent trauma of the 2009 vote.

5:37am EDT

Senate panel passes immigration bill; Obama praises move

WASHINGTON - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved legislation to give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, setting up a spirited debate next month in the full Senate over the biggest changes in immigration policy in a generation.

21 May 2013

Italy to outline youth jobs plan as government struggles

ROME - Italy's new government, already sinking in opinion polls and riven by internal disputes, on Wednesday lays out its plans to address one of the main causes of public anger - soaring unemployment among young people.

World, United Nations, Italy 5:24am EDT

Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai

CAIRO - Seven members of the Egyptian security forces kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were released on Wednesday, ending a crisis that has highlighted lawlessness in the desert peninsula bordering Israel.

World, Egypt 6:53am EDT

Artillery lands in east Congo city, humanitarian camp

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Artillery rounds landed in a heavily populated neighborhood of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Wednesday, killing a child and injuring other civilians a day before a planned visit by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a human rights group said.