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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovakia‘s opposition leftist party won the most votes in a parliamentary elections, tapping into widespread public discontent over eight years of austere economic reforms, authorities said Sunday. But with only 29 percent of the vote, Robert Fico’s Smer-Socialist Democratic Party does not have a parliamentary majority and …

BERLIN – A CBS correspondent seriously injured by a car bomb in Iraq was able to start communicating with her family and doctors Thursday, and started by asking what happened to her crew, a network spokeswoman said. Kimberly Dozier‘s two British colleagues — cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan …

WASHINGTON – President Bush will visit two towns in the former communist part of Germany before traveling to Russia for a meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized nations. On July 13, Bush will visit Stralsund and Trinwillershagen, both of which were in the electoral constituency of Angela Merkel, now …