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AJUNEAU, Alaska – Three major oil companies and state officials reached agreement Tuesday on a tax proposal aimed at bringing a long-planned $20 billion gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope to the Midwest closer to construction. The accord on a tax and royalties structure for developing Alaska’s natural gas will …

SEOUL, South Korea – Hwang Woo-suk, the disgraced South Korean cloning scientist accused of faking his research results, may also have misspent government funds, South Korea’s state auditor said Monday. The Board of Audit and Inspection said it would refer its findings from a three-week probe into Hwang’s use of …

WASHINGTON – President Bush has called Denmark’s prime minister to express “our support and solidarity” in the wake of violence over the publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, the White House said Tuesday. Spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush and Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen agreed that all sides must …