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BEIJING – Beijing Olympic organizers voiced confidence Monday about security arrangements for the August Games, a day after a Communist Party official said authorities had foiled a plot by Islamic terrorists targeting the event. “An efficient Olympic security command system is in place,” Sun Weide, a spokesman for the organizing …

ANKARA, Turkey – Suspected Kurdish rebels killed a civilian and were keeping another hostage in a Turkish province near the border with Syria, a local official said Friday according to state-run media. Rebels hiding in a mountainous area in the southern Hatay province killed the man after forcing him to …

CHICAGO – Is it safe to have your arteries unclogged at a hospital that lacks heart surgeons who can operate if something goes wrong? Many states ban this except in emergencies like heart attacks. But more small hospitals are trying it in non-urgent cases, and the largest study ever done …