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CHICAGO – Health insurer Cigna Corp. (CI) on Wednesday reported its quarterly net profit almost doubled, helped by the sale of its retirement unit, but its 2005 profit outlook fell short of analyst expectations. The fourth-quarter earnings soundly topped Wall Street estimates, but analysts were unsure whether the gain reflected …

UNITED NATIONS – Sudan’s government and the Janjaweed militia are not guilty of genocide but did commit mass killings, torture, rape and other atrocities in the Darfur region (search) that merit the trial of suspects in the International Criminal Court (search), a U.N.-appointed panel said in a new report. The …

BERLIN – German police carried out a series of raids Wednesday on individuals suspected of providing financial and other support to Islamic extremist activities (search) outside the country. Thirty-three apartments and four businesses were searched early Wednesday morning, most in the southern state of Bavaria (search), police said. The action …