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VIENNA, Austria – About 3,000 people have been cleared to receive the first payments from an Austrian fund to compensate Holocaust survivors, and another 3,000 should be approved shortly, the fund’s chief overseer said Thursday. Hannah Lessing, general secretary of the General Settlement Fund, told the Austria Press Agency that …

MEXICO CITY – Five federal agents arrested in connection with the videotaped torture and killing of drug hitmen have been released from prison for lack of evidence, the Mexico City government said Friday. The release of the men, who were members of Mexico’s elite Federal Agency of Investigation, raises further …

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (search) on Monday criticized a congressionally chartered panel of military experts for publishing what he called incorrect and possibly classified information about the Pentagon’s strategy for repositioning U.S. forces abroad. Congress created the Overseas Basing Commission (search) to evaluate the Pentagon’s plan to …