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Amber Alert Issued for 12-Year-Old Calif. Girl

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Authorities in Stockton, Calif., are looking for a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped by a man who had been renting a room and living at her family’s home. Officials issued an Amber Alert late Wednesday for Juana Martinez (search), described as a 5′ 3″, 110-pound …

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Experts Give Pope's Parkinson's Grim View

While the Vatican (search) expresses optimism Pope John Paul II (search) will rebound from his latest health crisis, outside medical experts give a grimmer long-term view, saying the pontiff’s Parkinson’s disease puts him on the path of a steady — and perhaps rapid — decline. The 84-year-old pope was rushed …

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Extremists Hunt Barbers in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Umm Ali says militants killed her son last month for the most unlikely of reasons: He trims men’s beards. In Baghdad’s Dora neighborhood, residents say Sunni Muslim extremists (search) have made barbers the new hunted, accusing them of violating a strict reading of Islamic teachings that say …

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