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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Fires allegedly set by farmers sent clouds of smoke across the Argentine capital on Thursday, disrupting air and highway travel and choking millions of Argentines. Some 270 square miles have burned in recent days, according to Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo. “We are facing a disaster caused …

WILMINGTON, N.C. – Traffic was backed up and police were called to control the crowd after a Wilmington gas station accidentally set the pump price at 35 cents a gallon. The Wilmington Star-News reported Friday that hundreds of drivers flooded a BP station for the cheap gas after the price …

BANGKOK, Thailand – As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Burma (also known as Myanmar) is being lost because of the military government’s foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday. Dan Baker, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Burma, said he is concerned that the losses …