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Miami Herald - Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos offered to resign Friday after saying that his government had asked Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to stop trying to score propaganda points over a hostage negotiation. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe ...

Bloomberg - Taiwan ``does not produce, develop, get, store, or use nuclear weapons,'' the Ministry of Defense said in a faxed statement yesterday. ``Taiwan's defense strategy has been clearly defined.'' The ministry's remarks came after opposition lawmaker Su ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - The Eagles' defense, as Brian Westbrook accurately noted after Sunday's ugly 16-9 win over the New York Jets, has hoisted the laboring offense on its back and prevented a rocky 2-3 start from being disastrous. It's a defense that has been praised for ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Playing defensive end at 5-foot-8 and 180 pounds, Chestnut Hill Academy's Henry Gilbert was asked if opposing linemen underestimate his abilities. "I think so," Gilbert said. "They sometimes look at me like I'm a little kid. They think they're just ...

Miami Herald - Northwestern's defense demands perfection from itself. Senior defensive captain Marcus Forston wasn't satisfied Friday night after his team gave up 12 late points to district rival American. ''We're trying to win every game, but we also don't want to ...

International Herald Tribune - GALVESTON, Texas : A 19-year-old man accused of putting his 2-month-old daughter in a microwave, causing burns to her face and hand, was insane at the time of the incident, his lawyer said. "This kid has voices talking to him, all kinds of other ...

Washington Post - The alternative minimum tax. It sounds horrible, doesn't it? And it has very bad press. The AMT was invented in 1969 as a way for the government to collect at least something from affluent people who had been a bit too successful at taking deductions ...

CNN - WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Poles began voting Sunday in elections pitting the prime minister's nationalists against a pro-business party that wants to bring the country's 900 troops home from Iraq and get more in return for hosting a U.S. missile defense ...

FOX News - A South Korean Defense Ministry official disputed and downplayed the North Korean claim, saying South Korean navy vessels didn't violate the border. "It's a routine claim. We don't pay attention much to it," he said on condition of anonymity in line ...

Seattle Times - That's where he impressed Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in 1984 with a brilliant, unscripted presentation. He was made chairman of the Joint Chiefs the next year, but not without opposition from the Navy. Clinton appointed him ...