LEFT TURN IN FRANCE: Partial results showed President Nicolas Sarkozy’s backers losing in Paris and other key French cities Sunday in the first round of municipal elections seen as a referendum on the increasingly unpopular conservative. Official nationwide results showed candidates from Sarkozy’s party and its allies with 45.5 percent and the Socialists and their allies with 47 percent.
SHOOTOUT IN MEXICO: A shootout between soldiers and gunmen in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua left six suspects and a military captain dead and seven others wounded, Mexico’s Defense Department said Sunday.
ARREST IN VENEZUELA: One of the U.S. government’s most-wanted drug trafficking suspects has been captured in Venezuela, state television reported Sunday. The United States has offered a reward of up to $5 million for the arrest of Hermagoras Gonzalez Polanco, and Venezuela’s state television channel confirmed his capture.
MYSTERY IN INDIA: Police questioned three men Sunday in a probe of the death of a 15-year-old British girl whose body was found Feb. 18 on a beach in southern India, officials said. Scarlett Keeling was seen with a group of men at a bar on the night she died, a police official said.
CRASH IN ARGENTINA: A passenger train slammed into a double-decker bus at an Argentine rail crossing before dawn Sunday, killing 18 people and injuring at least 47, authorities said. The train was traveling from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata, a beach resort.
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