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Army seizes shipment of opium
MEXICO — The Mexican army said Saturday that it seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country’s northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico. The 448 pounds of opium paste was found Thursday hidden in nine plastic containers in the township of Guadalupe y Calvo, in the border state of Chihuahua. The army said it could have yielded 200,000 doses of heroin or similar drugs. — The Associated PressBrit says Obama critics are foolishBRITAIN — British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Saturday accused critics of President Barack Obama of foolishly expecting him to fix the world’s woes single-handedly. In a speech to London’s Fabian Society think tank, Miliband said those sniping at Obama fail to understand the scale of challenges facing the international community, or the shifting power centers of global politics. "A year on from President Obama’s election, people are already questioning why he has not already solved the world’s problems. But the whole point of Obama’s campaign was that the power and responsibility to change the world is distributed," Miliband said. ". . . A new start has been made and new agendas set."— The Associated Press
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