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KATMANDU, Nepal – Police stormed the house of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba (search) early Wednesday after he failed to appear before an anti-corruption commission as part of a crackdown by the royalist government that critics say is politically motivated. About 50 policemen surrounded Deuba’s home on the northern …

SAN FRANCISCO – A jury Wednesday awarded nearly $5.8 million in damages to three men and a woman who were childhood victims of sexual abuse by a Roman Catholic (search) priest. The archdiocese acknowledged at the start of the 2 1/2-week trial that church officials knew in the 1970s the …

WASHINGTON – Freelance terror operations, either affiliated with Al Qaeda (search) or inspired by its goals, are a growing menace as the terrorist network’s loss of central leadership degrades its potency, the State Department said Wednesday. Nevertheless, Usama bin Laden‘s (search) Al Qaeda remained “the primary terrorist threat to the …