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Chad Threatens World Bank With Oil Cutoff

N’DJAMENA, Chad – Chad threatened Saturday to cut off its flow of oil unless the World Bank releases $125 million frozen in a dispute over how the central African country should spend its oil revenues. The announcement followed a late-night meeting between President Idriss Deby and his Cabinet ministers to …

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DNA Tests Fail to Show Connection to Priest in Slain Nun Case

TOLEDO, Ohio – Tests on part of a letter opener that prosecutors say a priest used to kill a nun 26 years ago showed no DNA evidence, an expert with the state crime lab testified Thursday. A piece of the bloody altar cloth found in the hospital chapel where Sister …

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Conviction in Killing of Nun Raises Hopes

BELEM, Brazil – A Brazilian farmer’s conviction for hiring the gunmen who killed an American nun and rain-forest defender is a sign of progress for an Amazon state’s notoriously corrupt judicial system, lawyers said. But they said the true test would be whether two ranchers accused of orchestrating Dorothy Stang‘s …

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