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BANGKOK, Thailand – A dozen homemade bombs exploded almost simultaneously Thursday morning at provincial government offices in Thailand’s restive south, wounding six, police said. Among the injured were three police officers and three civilians, said Boonyasit Suwanarat governor of Yala province. The explosions occurred in Thailand’s three Muslim-dominated provinces, Yala, …

DURHAM, N.C. – A North Carolina Republican says “Durham is torn up” about the Duke lacrosse team rape case so he plans to run against the district attorney prosecuting three students. The chairman of the Durham County Republican Party, Steve Monks, has no experience as a prosecutor and has never …

ROME – Italian police arrested 45 people Tuesday in an anti-Mafia crackdown in Sicily, including top mobsters who had allegedly been in contact with Bernardo Provenzano, the reputed No. 1 boss apprehended earlier this year. Investigators said the arrests in Palermo struck at the heart of the Sicilian Mafia, dealing …