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MADRID – Spanish police say they have arrested two Cameroonian migrants on suspicion of killing up to 10 other migrants by pushing them from a boat into stormy waters in a fight over a prayer session. Police said Thursday the two were arrested after several of the 29 survivors of …

WASHINGTON – Environmentalists and fiscal watchdogs have teamed up again to release theGreen Scissors (search)2003 report, hoping to sliceup to$58 billion of what they say is anti-environmental pork in the federal budget. “[We] want to eliminate wasteful and harmful spending from the government,” said Erich Pica, a spokesman for theFriends …

CARACAS, Venezuela – The International Monetary Fund is predicting Venezuela’s troubled economy will shrink by 7 percent in 2015, suffering the worst contraction in Latin America. It’s a dramatic downgrade from October, when the IMF said Venezuela’s economy would shrink by 1 percent. In a post published Wednesday, IMF Western …