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Niger President Mamadou Tandja’s ruling party beat out the opposition to win a parliamentary election, Reuters reported. Tandja’s party brought in more than 50 percent of the votes, a senior party official said, according to Reuters. Most of the opposition party boycotted the poll. West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS suspended …

TULSA, Okla. – Tulsa police have arrested a man for public intoxication after finding him “huffing” — or inhaling — compressed gas inside a Wal-Mart bathroom. Police say an officer found 20-year-old Jerrod Greer in a restroom stall with a handgun on his lap about 2:30 a.m. Monday and the …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Thousands of panicked South Pacific islanders raced away from coastlines after a series of strong earthquakes rocked the region and generated a small tsunami Thursday, just over a week after a massive wave killed 178 people in the Samoas and Tonga. There were no immediate reports …