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BATON ROUGE, La. – Fifty-four passengers were evacuated from a plane at Baton Rouge Metro Airport after the right engine caught on fire while the plane was taxiing for takeoff. Airport spokesman Ronnie Pickard says no one on Delta Flight 4320 to Atlanta was injured Sunday. Pickard says the regional …

BAGHDAD – The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Saturday that Al Qaeda’s network in the country has never been closer to defeat, and he praised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his moves to rein in Shiite and Sunni militant groups. Ryan Crocker’s comments came as Iraqi forces have been conducting …

BEIJING – Chinese officials said Monday that the country’s one-child policy exempts families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled in the country’s devastating earthquake. Those families can obtain a certificate to have another child, the Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee in the capital of hard-hit Sichuan province …