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BAGHDAD – Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Friday that he has extended a cease-fire order to his Shiite Mahdi Army by another six months, giving Iraq a chance to continue its fragile recovery from brutal sectarian violence. His message was delivered by Shiite clerics during prayer services in mosques dominated …

More than a year after contracting botulism from contaminated carrot juice, a Toronto woman remains hospitalized, struggling to walk and breathe, according to a report from CBC News. Susanna Chen, a former dancer, was in a coma for two months after contracting botulism last year and continues to suffer health …

NEW YORK – A burglar posing as a construction worker made away with about $100,000 worth of jewelry and electronics in a broad-daylight heist at Lesley Stahl’s apartment, police said Friday. Police wouldn’t provide specifics, but the New York Post reported the burglar posed as a construction worker and stole …